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Source: http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=243187
Ilan Grapel Incident Meant to Distract Egyptians from Real Problems
(Jerusalem Post) Oren Kessler - The Ilan Grapel affair, involving an American-Israeli arrested in Cairo, was designed to satisfy the Egyptian masses, and was a stage-managed incident meant to use "the traditional rival - Israel - to distract Egyptians from their real problems," Boaz Ganor, executive director of the Institute for Counter-Terrorism at IDC Herzliya, said Tuesday. Ely Karmon, a senior researcher at ICT, added that Cairo has a record of arresting innocent Israelis such as Azzam Azzam and Ouda Tarabin and framing them as spies to prove to its anti-Israel public it is looking after state security.