résumé en français du rapport (Marc Brzustowski)
Since israel’s 2005 withdrawal from gaza and last year’s Egyptian revolution, the sinai Peninsula has emerged as a new hotspot in the complex Arab-israeli conflict, with an expanding terrorist infrastructure that makes it another front of potential confrontation. The Bedouin are now in a position to initiate crises that neither israel nor Egypt wants, while also influencing the struggle against hamas. Measures are needed to prevent the total collapse of security in and around the peninsula, avoid the rise of an armed, runaway Bedouin statelet, and minimize the risk of israeli-Egyptian peace imploding under the pressures of the wild sinai frontier.