Rephidim, Amalek then: Bir Gafgafa, ISIS now

(Before It's News)

DEBKAfile was founded by a team of journalists in June 2000 as an independent Internet Web site, providing an intelligence and security news service. April 10, 2017, 4:50 PM (IDT)

At Rephidim, where Moses struck a rock to bring water to the Sinai wilderness and the Israelites fought Amalek, President El-Sisi is expanding the small Bir Gafgafa air field into Egypt’s biggest air base for all-out war on ISIS, which blew up two Coptic churches on April 9, after a long line of terrorist atrocities in Egypt. 

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