Southern Command<\/a> has yet to mount an effective response to this growing problem.<\/p>\nAl-Arjani works with the Egyptian army<\/h3>\n Yet another aspect to Al-Arjani\u2019s operations, which should be raising alarm bells, is the fact that he operates a Wagner- type group within the Egyptian army, which takes its orders directly from him.<\/p>\n
This may explain why Al-Arjani has been able to operate heavily armed military type convoys in Sinai without any interference from the Egyptian Army. These convoys are equipped with heavy machine guns, RPGs and sophisticated communications equipment. These units provide protection for Al-Arjani\u2019s smuggling operations all along our southern border.<\/p>\n
What should Israel do to stop this threat before it becomes totally unmanageable?<\/p>\n
First of all, Israel has to establish a line of mobile surveillance systems along the border based around tethered drones.These systems can hover persistently at altitude and provide 360-degree optical coverage at least 10 kilometers into Sinai and the Negev.<\/p>\n
The drones should therefore be able to provide accurate targeting intelligence for attached teams operating small suicide drones capable of taking out both Al-Arjani\u2019s security convoys and Israeli Bedouin all-terrain vehicles used to transport the drugs and guns back to their communities.<\/p>\n
Second, if heavier firepower were needed, mobile mortar batteries firing precision rounds could be made available to the frontier defense units.<\/p>\n
Third, to interdict Al-Arjani\u2019s drones, Israel should deploy vehicles armed with radars, gatling guns, and multiple small
Lastly, high flying drones with light weight radars could patrol the border looking deep into Sinai for Al-Arjani\u2019s drones.<\/p>\n
This arrangement would be capable of stopping Al-Arjani\u2019s drone shipments and eliminating his security detachments in Sinai. Of course, it\u2019s probable that Al-Arjani might ask the Egyptian Army for help, but it\u2019s doubtful that President Sisi would risk a confrontation with us before his military modernization program is completed.<\/p>\n
Should Al-Arjani foolishly decide to take on the IDF by himself, the flat, exposed terrain of Eastern Sinai will become his army\u2019s graveyard.<\/p>\n
The importace of protecting the southern border<\/h3>\n While touring the southern border, I saw amazing communities of Israeli citizens transforming the barren landscape into agricultural wonders.<\/p>\n
We have an absolute obligation to protect these communities of hardworking pioneers as they guard our border with Sinai.<\/p>\n
Drug and gun smugglers like Al Arjani, who threaten both their livelihood and our national security, must be defeated before the threat they pose reaches crisis levels.<\/p>\n
We have the troops and equipment to accomplish this objective. We just need the government and military to get on with it.<\/p>\n
The writer spent 30 years in American prisons after being convicted for spying for Israel. Now living in Jerusalem, he is an investor and cofounder in a handful of technology companies. He also writes and speaks about Israel\u2019s need to be militarily self-sufficient.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ibrahim Al-Arjani, a billionaire from the Tarhabin Bedouin tribe, is largely responsible for gun and drug smuggling from Sinai into Israel. AlarmingRead More ›<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/jerusalem_post_articles_818\/9c4e2d3d1552a8d76da34ccb7cc449ab","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}