Maariv: 'Here's how Israel can help Morsi!'

"...These announcements by Morsi [with regard to Gaza and Hamas] met with mixed reactions. The political rivals of the Egyptian president claimed that his policy in relation to Hamas testified to his commitment to the Muslim Brotherhood's agenda. Far harsher criticism was voiced during the military funeral for the [16] soldiers killed in the Sunday [Aug. 5] terror attack on the Egyptian border post. Various political spokespersons openly charged that the positions held by the Muslim Brotherhood and President Morsi served the Hamas interests to the detriment of Egypt's interests.
In recent days, there have been growing calls in Egypt to reopen the addendum to the [1979] Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty, which stipulates strict conditions for the demilitarization of the Sinai. For long years now, it has been claimed in Egypt that these conditions infringe on Egyptian sovereignty and impede control and security throughout the Sinai Peninsula. In deliberations on the issue held in Israel in recent years, it has been decided to comply with the Egyptian requests for the reinforcement of its troops in certain areas [in the Sinai] and for specified time intervals, and to reject in principle [the Egyptian demand for] negotiations on the demilitarization conditions stipulated in the addendum [of the peace treaty — Organization of Movements in the Sinai].
Following the heavy blow to Egypt [in the terror attack], its leaders are resolved to take unprecedented measures to stamp out the militant groups that have gained control, particularly in the central region of the Sinai Peninsula. Such action may take quite some time and it would require the involvement of military forces on a scale far in excess of that specified in the addendum to the peace treaty. Under the circumstances currently prevailing in Egypt, a large-scale military operation of this kind may indeed give rise to a new security reality in the Sinai. However, given the current state of affairs in Egypt, it stands to reason that the Egyptian leadership would find it difficult to order the evacuation of its forces from the Sinai once the operation is over. Egyptian public opinion would no doubt demand that the troops remain in the Sinai, as a testimony to Egypt's control over its entire sovereign territory.
Alternatively, Israel may take the initiative and announce already today that it is willing to reconsider and amend the security arrangements in the Sinai in mutual agreement with Egypt, under Article IV of the peace treaty. Achieving a renewed agreement on the size of Egyptian military forces in the Sinai Peninsula, their deployment and armament may turn out to be the preferred alternative to a situation that is liable to confront Israel with a fait accompli and undermine one of the major pillars of the peace treaty between the two countries."