Egypt Fallout   Israel’s Balancing Act in Sinai  Turmoil and
civil strife are engulfing Egypt, and members of the Israeli
defense establishment are watching events unfold south of the
border with concern. In one sense, the bloody struggle between
the military and the Muslim Brotherhood is an internal Egyptian
affair. But it doesn't take very much imagination to see how
growing instability in Egypt can affect the region as a whole,
Israel included.  The IDF's Southern Command is focusing its
gaze on the Sinai Peninsula, which has become a hotbed of
radical Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist groups that are taking
advantage of the power vacuum to flourish in the desert dunes.
Training camps and weapons caches are mushrooming.  The armed
groups in Sinai are composed of an unknown number of members
(some estimates have put them in the thousands). They are made
up of radicalized Bedouin, residents of Egypt proper, and a
growing number of foreign volunteers.  The more chaotic things
get in Egypt proper, the harder it wi