Instead of land for peace the principle under which Israel returned Sinai to Egypt in 1982 Israel is quitting Gaza pretty much unilaterally, after minimal co-ordination with the Palestinians, and with no firm promise that their ferocious intifada will not erupt again the moment the settlers have gone.
Militants have waged an insurgency in the Sinai peninsular since Morsi was ousted, killing more than 100 police officers and soldiers.
I reported on stories about pollution, football violence, bombings in Sinai and the Morsi trial – the same kind of fodder Al-Jazeera covers in bureaus across the world.
Netjes said it was likely she had come under suspicion because she visited al-Jazeera's Fahmy at the Marriott a few days before he was arrested, for an interview about the insurgency in Sinai.
At least the spectacular scenes filmed on location in Egypt and Sinai, with thousands of extras, lend the whole thing a sense of authenticity.
Gunmen in Egypt's Sinai peninsula killed a politician who was a member of parliament during the era of autocrat Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday, security sources said.
It follows four bomb attacks on Friday which targeted police officers, and the shooting down of a military helicopter in Sinai by Islamist extremists.
Against orders, he sent his men into an Egyptian ambush in Sinai during the 1956 Suez war.
Security concerns are rising, along with scattered bombings, not just in Sinai, where jihadists are most active, but even from time to time in Cairo.
Al-Qaeda is increasingly active in the open spaces of Sinai and sees opportunity in the ousting of the Muslim Brotherhood government in Cairo.
