The Egyptian military is continuing preparations for waging war, although Cairo has not announced an intended target.
Recently, the Egyptian paratrooper brigade conducted training exercises, jumping out of aircraft and using powered gliders—the same type used on October 7th to invade Israel.
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The Egyptian paratrooper brigade recently conducted training exercises, jumping out of aircraft and using powered gliders – the same type of gliders used to invade Israel by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, according to open source intelligence.
Egypt is reportedly furious over the publication of a hypothetical Israeli scenario created by artificial intelligence involving an attack on the Aswan Dam.
“The Nziv website, which focuses on military analysis, described a scenario in which bunker-penetrating missiles and advanced weaponry could be used to demolish or partially collapse the High Dam, leading to catastrophic flooding. It claimed that within minutes, millions of cubic meters of water would surge down the Nile Valley, flooding areas such as Luxor and Aswan and destroying infrastructure,” according to a report published Sunday by The New Arab.
Such an attack could wipe out military bases and industrial facilities, flooding vast areas and killing thousands in the first few hours, according to the report.
In response, Egyptian military researcher Sa’ad al-Faqi, told the Arabic edition of the Russian RT news outlet that Egypt would strike Israel’s nuclear reactor in Dimona “within minutes” of any attack on the Aswan Dam.
Beneath this all this verbal media skirmishing, however, lie very real Egyptian military preparations for another war with the Jewish State.
Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter, warned recently that Egypt has established military bases in Sinai for potential offensive actions. The Israeli ambassador emphasized that the move is an absolute violation of the Israel-Egypt peace treaty signed on March 26, 1979.
Satellite images have also revealed 100 Abrams tanks – Egypt’s premier battle tanks — parked near Israel’s border with Egypt – another violation of the peace treaty, which stipulates that most of Sinai must remain demilitarized.
Three new airfields have been built in Sinai and massive tunnels have been dug – more violations of the treaty.
The peace agreement allows for military camps for 47 battalions; currently there are camps for 180 battalions, four times the permitted amount, according to Lt. Col. (res.) Eliyahu Dekel, a military analyst who has tracked adherence to the Egypt-Israel peace treaty for decades.
An analysis of the military buildup and the development of the infrastructure systems in the Sinai and the Canal front, leads [Dekel] to the conclusion that the Egyptian Army’s focus is on preparing a theatre of war against Israel in Sinai, Dekel warns.
Last Tuesday, Egyptian Defense Minister Abdel Mageed Ahmed Abdel Mageed Saqr ordered military brigades in the Sinai and near Rafah – which straddles the border between Egypt and Gaza – to maintain the “highest level of readiness for war.”
Proclaiming an elevated alert and ordering military exercises, however, is not new for Cairo. Egypt carried out similar activities shortly after the start of the October 7, 2023 war launched by Hamas against Israel, and again in the summer of 2024. Such posturing is often a way for the Cairo government to show its citizens it is defending the homeland against the “Zionist state.”
Nevertheless, Egypt may indeed be preparing its armed forces for a surprise attack on Israel, despite a decades-long peace treaty.
“For example, in May of this year, Egypt signed a contract to buy 30 advanced French Rafale fighters. It is meant to improve Egypt’s chances if it has to fight the powerful Israeli Air Force,” Israeli national security expert Ehud Eilam wrote in a commentary for Israel Defense.
Egypt spent years preparing for the Yom Kippur War, preceded by myriad official speeches laced with apparent bluster and bravado.
The reasons for another, possible attempt at annihilating the State of Israel are complex: They include internal and regional Arab political maneuvering, fear of being forced to accept an influx of hundreds of thousands of Gazan emigrants under the Trump Plan for Gaza, complete with thousands of terrorists among them, and the deterioration of a longtime cold peace with Israel.
One week ago, the Egyptian foreign ministry announced an emergency Arab summit to be held on Feb. 27 in response to Trump’s plan for Gaza, which would enable its residents to emigrate from the enclave to nations abroad.
Trump announced a plan to rebuild Gaza into what he called the “Riviera of the Middle East” while enabling Gazans to find a better, easier life elsewhere. The president suggested that Egypt and Jordan would provide land to resettle Gazans into new homes – but both countries swiftly rejected the plan outright.
“Over the past few days, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty made a series of phone calls with several Arab counterparts to mass regional efforts in a bid to thwart the US proposal of displacing the Palestinian people,” Egypt’s foreign ministry said in a statement.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi canceled a planned official visit to the White House in response to Trump’s announced plan for Gaza.
Jordanian King Abdullah II, who did not cancel his own recent visit to Washington, expressed his views on the matter in diplomatic language during his meeting with Trump and a subsequent presser with media.
