(JNS.org) Israel should do all it can to help the new secular government in Egypt beat the Muslim Brotherhood, even if that means amending the Military Annex of the Camp David peace accords to allow more Egyptian military assets into the Sinai Peninsula, the former director of the Israeli Counter-Terrorism Bureau in the Prime Minister’s Office Brig. Gen. (Res.) Nitzan Nuriel told Army Radio on Sunday. A new Islamist terrorist group in the Sinai calling itself Ansar al-Shariah announced its formation on Friday, Israel Hayom reported. The group, in a statement posted on an online forum for terrorists, said it would gather arms and start training its members.

The Sinai-based Sunni terrorist group Jamaat Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis took responsibility for a rocket attack on Eilat last Thursday. “Jews, enemies of Allah, are those who are responsible for what is happening in Egypt and their long arm is to blame for the current situation,” the group said in a statement, Israel Hayom reported. “We bombed them to scare them and let them know that Allah is with us.”