Nation’s columnists are squarely focused on Friday’s terror attack in Sinai

Our nation’s columnists were squarely focused on Friday’s terror attack in Sinai. Al Masry Al Youm’s Abdel Nasser Salama says the attacks suggest a need for a significant change in the country’s anti-terrorism strategy. The sheer magnitude of the attack transgressed the usual boundaries that would allow it to be classified as a “criminal act,” and requires a much stronger response than the usual string of condemnations, mourning and vows. Hussein El Badry and Mai Azzam take to the pages of the same newspaper to say that the attack suspiciously coincides with the ongoing process of the Palestinian reconciliation. El Badry postulates that the attack may have been carried out by those opposed to the unity agreement.