"Israeli" Paper, Maariv, reported Tuesday that the "Israeli" government demanded Egypt to withdraw its tanks from the Sinai Peninsula after Cairo deployed them to counter extremist groups operating in the area. Maariv said that the office of "Israel's" Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, sent a letter to the Egyptian leadership through the White House, asking Cairo to remove its tanks. "Israel" said that deploying further Egyptian soldiers in Sinai without prior coordination, is considered a serious violation to the so-called peace agreement between the two countries. Yet, on Monday, several "Israeli" military and security officials said that said that they are in direct communication with Cairo and that they encouraged the newly-elected Islamist leadership to act decisively against the armed groups in Sinai. The so-called peace agreement of 1979, singed under American supervision, imposes restrictions on the deployment of the Egyptian army in Sinai. On Monday, former Deputy Chief of Staff "Israeli" Major Dan Harel claimed that the hard core of terror in Sinai is made up of Al Qaeda and the Global Islamic Jihad, and this requires "Israel" to fully deploy along the border with Egypt. This deployment would have to include beefed up forces, hi-tech sensors and other means of intelligence gathering. Egypt is turning into "a strategic problem," he said, adding that "It could take five years, but we can already see how the Muslim Brotherhood is tightening its grip on power, and it is clear that democracy in Egypt will be democracy from another world."