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<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;"><span style="color:#000000;">by:</span> Hassan Hanizadeh</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#333333;">The explosion at a church in  the Egyptian city of Alexandria, which left 21 people killed and another  80 Muslims and Christians wounded, raises one question: Who was behind  the blast? </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#333333;">Although, at first glance, the  finger is pointed at extremist Wahabi or Salafi groups, it goes without  saying that no Muslim, whatever their political leanings may be, will  ever commit such an inhumane act.</span></p>
<p>Attacks on churches in Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq and Tunisia can be  analyzed in the context of a Zionist scenario aimed at driving a wedge  between Muslims and Arab Christians.</p>
<p>Since the emergence of Islam, Muslims and Christians in the East have  always coexisted peacefully as Islam pays due respect to the freedom of  divine faiths — especially Christianity.</p>
<p>In Egypt, too, Muslims and Christians are living in peace and  harmony. Never, ever have the Christians in Egypt complained of any  problems keeping them from carrying out their religious duties.</p>
<p>The fresh plot by terrorists to target churches is an organized  Zionist scenario aimed at creating a rift between Muslims and  Christians.</p>
<p>Following its intelligence and security failures in Egypt and the  apprehension of a number of Mossad agents by Egyptian intelligence  apparatus, the Zionist regime of Israel is set to exact vengeance on the  Egyptian nation.</p>
<p>For years, Israel and the United States have resorted to radical  groups with no affiliation to divine faiths to carry out acts of terror  against Christians in Islamic countries.</p>
<p>Based on this scenario, the Israeli regime urges deviant  anti-religion groups to conduct terrorist operations against Christians.</p>
<p>Such a process will create a chasm between Christians and Muslims,  which, in turn, usually tends to reinforce the desire among Christians  to establish an independent government and steer clear of the central  government.</p>
<p>Political experts believe that the U.S., the Israeli regime and  Britain have crafted a long-term joint security program in the Middle  East and North Africa to downsize the world of Islam and disintegrate  the countries there.</p>
<p>Part of the scenario is to divide Sudan into northern and southern  parts, split Egypt into a Christian-populated country and a  Muslim-populated one and trigger a new civil strife in Lebanon among  Shias and Sunnis.</p>
<p>Therefore, North Africa is now faced with fresh political  developments, namely a plebiscite to determine whether or not the north  of the country should be separated from the south.</p>
<p>A referendum supervised by the United Nations and the European Union  is slated to be held in southern Sudan on January 9 to decide whether or  not the region should break away from the central government.</p>
<p>The West, including the United States, is making the preliminary  arrangements for the vote, which is a foregone conclusion as people in  south Sudan backed by Washington and the EU are sure to give a strong  ‘yes’ to autonomy.</p>
<p>The establishment of a non-Arab Christian government in the heart of  Islamic Sudan will result in the Israeli regime infiltrating into the  east bank of the river Nile, only to be a pain in the neck for Muslim  nations in North Africa.  <strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong></strong><span style="color:#333333;">After south  Sudan is separated from the north, the Israeli regime will, thanks to  its physical presence on the ground, take control of the water flow in  the river and hold the 11 countries on both sides of the Nile to  political ransom.</span></p>
<p>Leaders in south of the African country had already announced they  would establish broad political relations with Tel Aviv once they break  away from the north.</p>
<p>Another scenario on the West’s agenda is to lay the groundwork for the formation of a Coptic government in Upper Nile in Egypt.</p>
<p>Given the peaceful coexistence between Coptic Christians and Muslims  in Egypt, it is not possible to turn the former against the latter  without first psychologically inciting them.</p>
<p>Suicide attacks on churches in Egypt and the killing of Christians  are part of the psychological warfare launched by the US, the UK and  Israel to divide Christians and Muslims.</p>
<p>Therefore, the recent scuffles between Muslims and Christians in Naj’  Hammadi region in Qena governorate in southern Egypt as well as the  blast at the Alexandria church are a prelude for the dangerous  Western-engineered scenario to unfold in one of the key Islamic-Arab  nations.<br />
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</strong><span style="color:#333333;">Following last year’s  bloody battles in Naj’ Hammadi, over 15,000 Coptic Christians residing  in the United States staged a protest rally, calling for Western  countries to step in to help them.</span></p>
<p>Coptic Christians wrote more than 4,000 letters to U.S. President  Barack Obama the same day, calling for a halt to what they called  “Egyptian Muslims’ crackdown on Christians.”</p>
<p>Such circumstances will undermine the grounds for peaceful  coexistence between Egyptian Muslims and Christians, and set the scene  for Coptic Christians inside Egypt to change their outward view.</p>
<p>All the existing evidence proves that the Alexandria church  explosion, though appearing to have been carried out by extremist  groups, is the handiwork of the Israeli intelligence service Mossad.</p>
<p>The fact is lost on no one that the United States, Britain and the  Israeli regime have what it takes to provoke ethnic and religious  divisions in Islamic nations.</p>
<p>Therefore, if the Egyptian people, Muslims and Christians alike, do  not react to Israeli plots, they will unintentionally get involved in a  civil war, which could lead to Egypt’s disintegration.  <strong><br />
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<p><strong>Source: <a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/158351.html">Press TV</a></strong></p>
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<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Hassan Hanizadeh</strong></span> is editorialist of the <em>Tehran Times</em>.</p>
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