Date: Monday, April 15, 2013 at 12:30 pm
Location: H-1220, 1455 de Maisonneuve St. West
Information: call 514-848-2424, extension 8721
Avraham Sela
Senior Lecturer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
In recent years the Sinai Peninsula has become a serious security threat to the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty due to a growing presence of Islamic jihadist groups and their attacks on Israeli and Egyptian targets in collaboration with militant Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip. This threat is further aggravated by the growing alienation of the indigenous Bedouin tribes of Sinai towards Cairo as a result of long-lived neglect and discrimination by the Egyptian government turning Sinai into a lawless and ungovernable region. To control the security challenge of Sinai Egypt, Israel and Hamas must find a way to cooperate despite their political inhibitions.