Posted on 05/07/2011 10:50:23 AM PDT by UniqueViews
The leading candidate in Egypt's presidential race said that if he was elected he would break with former President Hosni Mubarak's reliably amenable policies toward Israel.
Mr. Moussa, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, also described a political landscape in which the Muslim Brotherhood, outlawed under Mr. Mubarak, is dominant. It is inevitable, he said, that parliamentary elections in September will usher in a legislature led by a bloc of Islamists, with the Brotherhood at the forefront.
Since massive demonstrations overthrew Mr. Mubarak's regime in February, the new military-led government has negotiated a power-sharing deal between the Palestinian Authority and the militant Islamist party Hamas, pledged to work toward normalizing estranged relations with Iran, and announced plans to permanently open Egypt's border with the blockaded Gaza Strip, against protests from neighboring Israel.
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So Egypt wants to “reset” their peaceful relationship with Israel. What does peace get “reset” to?
Yeah, this Egyptian Democracy stuff is going to be just peachy. Bad gets worse.
Barry’s legacy in the Middle East blooms.
Obviously, liberal think-tanks are going to need hundred of millions in taxpayer funding to figure out which direction this wild Mideast stuff is going to go in. Perhaps the administration could impose a 7 cent per gallon fuel tax to pay for the studies and encounter groups which will no doubt be held in luxury resorts in Bali or Hawaii.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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As I noted on the other thread, since the US is party to these agreements, the Peace Treaty and border closing to Gaza, either the US pulls out too, or Egypt resets it's relationship with the US.
Or the US resets its relationship with Israel, or Israel resets its relationship with the US. Perhaps the former was already done on 21/1/09, and perhaps the latter is long overdue.
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