Security ties between Israel and Egypt had been badly rattled since an August terror attack in southern Israel, which according to Egypt resulted in the deaths of five of its men who were caught in the crossfire.
First missile defense system batteries will soon be delivered to IAF, could be operational by September.
A-Sharq al-Awsat: Egypt is reaching out to both Israel and Palestinian factions in bid to calm tension.
How does a society professing the noblest values come to adopt policies of discrimination and persecution?
The situation that arose once the Egypt-Gaza border was flung wide open has apparently not yet penetrated Israeli consciousness.
Thus, in 1982, with the completion of the Israeli withdrawal from Sinai, Egypt had achieved all the strategic goals it had set itself 12 years before.
Spreading fear is a widespread, familiar practice in regimes that Israel does not want to resemble.