The fall of the Mubarak regime did not create the power vacuum in the Sinai that allowed the terrorists to strike. The Sinai is barren, mountainous territory that’s difficult to control - ironically, all the more so because the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty of 1979 drastically limits the Egyptian military presence there, as Ben-Gurion University professor Yoram Meital points out. For several years, Meital says, security experts have warned that “militant jihad organizations” are moving into the Sinai. Even before the Eilat attack, Israel had agreed to let Egypt send more troops into the region.
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