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Is the peace between Israel and Egypt over?

By: tbrickert (Diary)  |  January 3rd, 2012 at 10:31 AM  | 

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I hear you out there.

You are wondering where this is coming from. Everything I’ve been writing has been about the Republican primary and with today being the Iowa caucus you were expecting  me to push for a candidate or at the very least continue attacking one of them.

Not today.

Today I am thinking about one of  President Obama’s foreign policy”successes,” the Arab spring.

Yes to hear some speak President Obama deserves credit for bringing democracy to Egypt. Of course, there are some who say he deserves the blame for destabilising the Middle East.

When he had a chance to put pressure on Iran he sat on the sidelines, doing practically nothing in response to the Iranian government’s crackdown on it s citizens.

He led from behind during the removal of Gadhafi in Libya.  As a Post Gadhafi Libya evolves, it is clear that it will develop into an Islamic state.

If Libya continues down this path it will be following the same course as Egypt. Where the Muslim Brotherhood won 36.3 percent of the vote and the ultra-conservative Salafi al-Nour Party received 28.8% creating a government, according to the deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Dr. Rashad Bayoumi,  unwilling to recognize Israel and will to dissolve the existing peace treaty, from the Jerusalem Post:

When asked whether it is a requirement for the government in Egypt to recognize Israel, Bayoumi responded by saying: “This is not an option, whatever the circumstances, we do not recognize Israel at all. It’s an occupying criminal enemy.”

The deputy leader stressed during the interview that no Muslim Brotherhood members would ever meet with Israelis for negotiations.“I will not allow myself to sit down with criminals.”

Bayoumi went on to say that the Muslim Brotherhood would take legal procedures towards canceling the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel that was signed in 1979.

“The Brotherhood respects international conventions, but we will take legal action against the peace treaty with the Zionist entity,” he told the paper.

These events only serve to highlight the importance of this next Presidential election. As I said in my last post. If you do not know about these things WAKE UP! IT’S 2012. There are important things happening.

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  • gawken

    Remember the pics of the millions of brave Iraqis, who defied the terrorists to vote….proudly displaying the purple finger that showed the world they had exercised that most basic of all rights?

    Well, that’s all gone now. Obama pulled the troops out way to soon..to satisify his base, and Iraq is about to descend into the abyss once again. And 3000+ American lives, and those of our allies, tens of thousands of wounded, and over a trillion in our treasure, will have been for naught.

  • http://tbrickert.wordpress.com tbrickert

    I did overlook Iraq. My bad.
    The chaos in the middle east is building to a tipping point and if it does not explode before the next election it most certainly will within the next four years. I know in times of economic turmoil Americans vote with their pocket books, but there is real danger in the world and I thought it was appropriate to direct attention to that as the first votes in the Presidential Campaign begins.

  • lizzie

    which is the #1 game of “chicken” this week in foreign relations.

    As for Egypt? Well, the Islamists are going to be very distracted when the food riots start, and they discover that the Egyptian military owns all the bread bakeries, and that the demise of tourism since the
    CNN Tahrir-Twitter “revolution” disrupted everything means there is no more foreign exchange to buy wheat from the USA or Ukraine (the main sources with export surplus of wheat).

    Yes, Israel faces much more instability from Egypt. After tourism, Egypt’s main sources of foreign exchange are natural gas exports to Israel and Jordan (and the pipeline just had the tenth “explosion” in the Sinai; and transit receipts from the Suez Canal.

    Keep your eye on Egypt’s military. After all, they still have the guns, and it makes a whole lot more sense to invade Eastern Libya to seize the oil fields than to do anything that would have NATO seizing the Suez Canal.

    Or the eight million Egyptian Coptic Christians seizing the Sinai for their ancestral homeland, starting with St. Catherine’s Monastery.

    Obama’s re-election campaign is going to have soooo many interruptions, just in dealing with the principle of free navigation in the Arabian Sea and whether to use an Executive Order to seize the wheat exports from Washington State and re-direct them from China to Egypt.

    Egypt has to import 50% of their caloric intake. Follow the story with David Goldman aka Spengler at ATimesonline or his more expanded blog at pjmedia.

    and, Saudi Arabia and the UAE might just decide to build an oil pipeline along the Israel/Egypt border of the Sinai, and turn Gaza into a wholly-owned Saudi oil export terminal.

    Basically, pandering to the Arab street on the peace treaty with Israel is a distraction from really serious possibility of 85 million Egyptians descending into anarchy.