US scholar accuses Israel of stirring up trouble in Egypt http://www.irna.ir/ENNewsShow.aspx?NID=30390301&SRCH=1

Prominent US scholar Norman Finkelstein accused Israel of 'stirring up trouble in Egypt,' the German-based website Palaestina Portal reported Tuesday.Finkelstein said Israelis were 'part of the internal counter-revolution' in Egypt as they are also fuelling the sectarian conflict in the Arab country.'Certainly, the spirit of the (Egyptian) revolution was unity. Young people do not want to have anything to do with these sectarian divisions between Copts and Muslims. My guess is that there are some sectarian elements – some but not as significant –

and there are a lot of people who are stirring up a lot of troubles. Israelis are stirring up troubles,' Finkelstein was cited saying. 'If someone asks me if they are behind one of the church bombings, I would say that I believe that. Israel has a history of that. Think about the Lavon affair in 1954. That wouldn’t surprise me. I think Israelis are part of the internal counter-revolution because they are very upset about what is happening in Egypt, ' he added. 

Finkelstein's reference to the Lavon Affair is about a failed Israeli covert operation,code-named Operation Susannah, conducted in Egypt in the summer of 1954. As part of the false flag mission, a group of Egyptian Jews were recruited by Israeli military secret service for plans to plant bombs inside Egyptian, American and British-owned installations. The attacks were to be blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood and Egyptian Communists 

with the aim of creating a climate of sufficient violence and instability to induce the British government to retain its occupying troops in Egypt's Suez Canal zone. Meanwhile, Finkelstein stressed that Israel had still close ties to elements of Mubarak security and intelligence apparatus. 'They were so close with Mubarak that for sure they have connections with the internal security and with the main counter-revolutionary elements,' he added.