Bedouin Arms Smugglers See Opening In Sinai -- Wall Street JournalIsraeli officials are nervously watching events in Egypt's sparsely populated Sinai Peninsula, worried that a power vacuum in Cairo and the withdrawal of police forces will embolden the Bedouin tribes who help smuggle weapons to Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.
In a sign of the rising tensions, Bedouin in the northern Sinai on Friday used rocket-propelled grenades to attack the headquarters of Egypt's state security in El Arish, a town close to Egypt's border crossing into Gaza, according to witnesses.
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My Comment: The desire to make a buck has always fascinated me ... and the Arab Bedouins are very good at it. Will they supply weapons .... it will not surprise me. But the Israelis have no one to blame but themselves.
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