What prevents Egypt with the worlds largest standing army from staging a massive ground/air attack on Israel?

List of wars/operations israel was victorious in. - 1948 Israeli war - 1950-1967 retribution operations - 1956 suez crisis - 1967 war over water - 1966 samu incident - 1967 Six day war - 1968 battle of karameh - 1973 spring of youth - 1973 yom kippur war - helped in the lebanese civil war - 1976 operation entebbe - 1978 south Lebanon conflict - 1982 Lebanon war - 1982-00 south Lebanon war - 1987 first intifida - 1993 Lebanon war - 1995 hanish island conflict - 1996 Lebanon war - 2000 second intifida - 2000-06 shebaa farms conflict - 2002 operation defensive shield - 2004 operation rainbow - 2004 operation days of penitence.

Really if that is how your brain functions then I guess no one can convince you that terrorist attacks occurs in every single country in the World but the difference between what happened Is that unlike you these terrorist attacks in Egypt were heavily condemned and the terrorists who were caught were sentenced to death, we didn't give orders to terrorist to murder neither gave lame excuses for the these attacks. And in case you didn't know the attacks of 2004 were by a group called Tawheed and Jihad, which renamed itself later on to Al Qaeda in Iraq. "Thirty-four people were killed and 171 others injured when suicide bombers attacked several tourist resorts popular among Israelis in Sinai, Egypt.

Prosecutors alleged that the men sentenced to death for the attack belonged to a group called Tawheed and Jihad, which renamed itself Al Qaeda in Iraq ten days after the attack." http://www.adl.org/terrorism/listofattac... The same as in the 1990 attack; "There were no terrorist attacks against U.S. personnel in Egypt in 1990, but two attacks were carried out against Israeli citizens. In the first, an Israeli tour bus was ambushed on 4 February between Cairo and Ismailiya, Egypt.

The attack, claimed by members of the PIJ, left 11 people including nine Israelis, dead and 17 others injured. The second terrorist incident occurred 25 November when a lone gunman dressed in an Egyptian paramilitary uniform crossed the Egyptian-Israeli border near Eilat and opened fire on a bus and three vehicles carrying Israeli soldiers and workers. Four Israelis were killed, and 27 were wounded.

The perpetrator fled back across the border where he was immediately arrested by Egyptian authorities." http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/terror_90/... You can search the PIJ who were responsible for the 4th of February attack. So the question you were asking is no more than a pile of bullshit because every country is subjected to terrorist attacks but we try very hard to fight it and obviously there are countries that support terrorism and kill children,women and unarmed men, Bomb schools and hospitals slaughter and assassinate all they want, expel people from their land, destroy their homes and build illegal settlements instead and torture them to death with using banned weapons hence committing war crimes against helpless people(don't scratch your heads, yes I mean israel).

On the other hand there are countries that fight it and never supported it and even though we hate you as hell still we are totally against the killing of civilians. If you want your list of terrorist attacks I won't just get you three incidents but 3 million however, it will take me over a year to list your terrorist attacks beginning from king David hotel bombing.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.