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Moderate Egyptian candidate calls us an enemy

admin — Fri, 11 May 2012 04:12:15 +0000

In the Egyptian presidential debate the allegedly moderate Fotouh called Israel an enemy, while his opponant Moussa more generously spoke of our country as an adversary. That’s after thirty-five years of peace. Both candidates promised to review the peace treaty.

We are indeed indebted to Obama for the Arab Spring.

Leading presidential candidate ignores Camp David treaty

admin — Thu, 03 May 2012 08:42:26 +0000

Amr Moussa has declared the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty dead. While he would not (indeed, cannot) denounce the treaty, Moussa promised to abide first by the terms of the Arab League peace initiative, which requires Israel to withdraw to the 1948 armistice line, surrender Jerusalem, and allow Palestinian ‘refugees’ to return.

Moussa lied when he said that the treaty was conditioned on the creation of a Palestinian state; there are many memoirs that show how irrelevant that issue was for Sadat.

Egyptian moderate is good for Salafists

admin — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 19:19:51 +0000

We recently wrote that the ‘moderate’ Egyptian presidential candidate Fotouh is really an extremist from the Muslim Brotherhood. Our claim has now been vindicated—the Salafi Call, an extremist religious group in Egypt, has backed him for the upcoming elections.

Termination of Egyptian gas contract is not a violation of the peace treaty

admin — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 05:53:06 +0000

Egypt’s decision to formally stop the flow of gas to Israel is widely viewed as a grave violation of the peace treaty, which is not the case. The treaty obligates Egypt to refrain from trade discrimination against Israel. The sale of gas, however, is rightly viewed in Egypt as a very special preference, exempt from the normal terms of trade. No doubt Mubarak inked the deal, priced well below the market, in exchange for major bribes.

Also, after repeated attacks on the pipeline, the Cairo government simply cannot abide by the terms of the agreement.

We can make a case that the gas from Sinai is indeed ours, both religiously and economically (we discovered the fields when we held Sinai). But unless we are ready to take the Sinai back, there is no point whining about fair trade violations in this particular case.

Egyptian junta snubs US, Israel

admin — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:22:30 +0000

The military council has barred US-Israeli favorite Omar Suleiman from the presidential elections. Possibly, Suleiman acted as a straw-man: the action against him provided a sense of even-handedness to the barring of two other leading presidential candidates from the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists. Suleiman was not eager for the presidency, and only announced his candidacy a few days before the registration cut-off date. The junta hate Suleiman, who as Mubarak’s vice-president checked the military’s power in Egypt for many years.

For Israel and the United States, however, Suleiman, Mubarak’s right hand and the intelligence chief, is the only acceptable candidate. Any other president would freeze the peace treaty.

Egyptian operation in Sinai cannot succeed

admin — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:21:27 +0000

After Palestinian terrorists fired rockets at Eilat from Sinai, Egypt announced the commencement of a military operation in the peninsula. Evidently, such operations were part of the conditions attached to the US aid to Egypt.

But a mere 150 police stationed in Sinai are worthless, as they will be surrounded by terrorists and Bedouins. Rooting terrorists out of their mountainous hideouts Sinai would require tens of thousands of troops, the resolve to use brutal force against villages where terrorists have melted into the local populations, and the political will to do Israel’s bidding. As long as the Islamist groups in Sinai do not threaten the Cairo regime, no such operation will take place.

Next Egyptian president will be terrorist

admin — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 05:22:05 +0000

Despite the Muslim Brotherhood’s promises to Obama that they would refrain from seeking to elect a presidential candidate, we predicted the opposite. Naturally, the MB has now fielded its own presidential candidate, an allegedly moderate businessman named Khairat Shater.

Shater is so moderate that he was convicted of arming university students in 2007, and in 1995 was likewise convicted of abetting the MB. It’s not clear what kind of business this businessman was conducting during his many years in jail.

The junta promptly cleared him of all charges, thus allowing him to run for the presidency.

US provides aid to Muslim Brotherhood

admin — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 17:27:20 +0000

As expected, the White House released $1.3 billion annual aid to Egypt despite the country being overtaken by the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafists. The army remains under the junta’s control only nominally—its real loyalty is to the Islamists.

Essentially, the US is funding our enemy.

MB does not rush to help Gazans

admin — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:54:39 +0000

After winning parliamentary elections, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood is doing surprisingly little for Hamastan. The MB even turned a blind eye when the junta stopped diesel deliveries to Gaza, leaving it at Israel’s mercy for electricity.

It is not clear yet whether the Brotherhood just wants to keep quiet so as not to jeopardize its chances in presidential elections, or whether as a governing party it has come to embrace the view that has been prevalent among the Egyptian elite for decades—that Gazans are too cumbersome and are best dealt with by military measures.

Israeli cost of US aid and Arab Spring

admin — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:05:58 +0000

According to the Finance Ministry’s Director General, Israel loses about $5 billion annually because of the cessation of gas supply from Egypt. That’s a bit more than the $2 billion the US pays us to comply with its Middle East policies, including its encouragement of the Arab Spring madness.