Egypt Looking for Change?

[Veritas]

This may get interesting

It could. However, you failed to identify the speaker as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. From your link:

A leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt told the Arabic-language Iranian news network Al-Alam on Monday that he would like to see the Egyptian people prepare for war against Israel, according to the Hebrew-language business newspaper Calcalist.

Changes are that even if Mubarack were to fall, the Brotherhood will not come to power.

Jerusalem Post:

Former US ambassador to Egypt Dan Kurtzer, however, assessed on Tuesday that the bulk of the protesters were not looking to elevate the Muslim Brotherhood.

“The majority of Egyptians don’t think it’s good for their own interests, even though it’s a very religious society,” Kurtzer said, speaking on a Jewish Federations of North America and Jewish Council for Public Affairs conference call.

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Kurtzer stressed that given the situation on the ground, the US had a limited ability to dictate the outcome.

Mass hysteria flows quite well in the Muslim world.

Just as well as it does on this message board.

 

[delldude]

It could. However, you failed to identify the speaker as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. From your link:

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Changes are that even if Mubarack were to fall, the Brotherhood will not come to power.

Jerusalem Post:
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Just as well as it does on this message board.

It is quite there you just can't seem to grasp it. And if that's not good enough for you, contact Yaakov Lappin, he wrote the article.

The Brotherhood is the power. The goal is a Caliphate around the Med.

 

[Veritas]

And if that's not good enough for you, contact Yaakov Lappin, he wrote the article.

Except that he attributes his source to another publication: "[A]ccording to the Hebrew-language business newspaper Calcalist."

 

[delldude]

Except that he attributes his source to another publication: "[A]ccording to the Hebrew-language business newspaper Calcalist."

You still missed the boat.

 

[eolesen]

The timing is indeed curious. It is now is Groundhog Day in Egypt...

But today (still Feb 1 here in Chicago...) is the anniversary of Khomeini's return to Iran in 1979

Feb 11 is "Islamic Revolutionary Day"

Let's see how long it is before Hamas starts flowing into Egypt from Gaza...

I'd love nothing more for Egypt to remain largely secular and moderate. But I'm not paid to be an optimist -- I'm paid to look at all options, including the worst case. And right now, the worst case isn't too far of a stretch.

 

[Veritas]

You still missed the boat.

Tell me after you read this article:

בכיר באחים המוסלמים: "יש להפסיק את הזרמת הגז לישראל ולהכין את העם למלחמה"

It is all speculation and innuendo.

 

[delldude]

Changes are that even if Mubarack were to fall, the Brotherhood will not come to power.

According to a Pew opinion survey of Egyptians from June 2010, 59 percent said they back Islamists. Only 27% said they back modernizers. Half of Egyptians support Hamas. Thirty percent support Hizbullah and 20% support al Qaida. Moreover, 95% of them would welcome Islamic influence over their politics. When this preference is translated into actual government policy, it is clear that the Islam they support is the al Qaida Salafist version.

Eighty two percent of Egyptians support executing adulterers by stoning, 77% support whipping and cutting the hands off thieves. 84% support executing any Muslim who changes his religion.

Changes are that even if Mubarack were to fall, the Brotherhood will not come to power.

WHAT ALL of this makes clear is that if the regime falls, the successor regime will not be a liberal democracy. Mubarak’s military authoritarianism will be replaced by Islamic totalitarianism. The US’s greatest Arab ally will become its greatest enemy. Israel’s peace partner will again become its gravest foe.

Changes are that even if Mubarack were to fall, the Brotherhood will not come to power.

The question most Israelis are asking is why are the Americans behaving so destructively? Why are President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton charting a course that will necessarily lead to the transformation of Egypt into the first Salafist Islamic theocracy? And why are conservative commentators and Republican politicians urging them to be even more outspoken in their support for the rioters in the streets?

Does the US not understand what will happen in the region as a result of its actions? Does the US really fail to understand what will happen to its strategic interests in the Middle East if the Muslim Brotherhood either forms the next regime or is the power behind the throne of the next regime in Cairo?

Jerusalem Post

 

[delldude]

Tell me after you read this article:

בכיר באחים המוסלמים: "יש להפסיק את הזרמת הגז לישראל ולהכין את העם למלחמה"

It is all speculation and innuendo.

I read it and posted it.

 

[Veritas]

Jerusalem Post

Using a Caroline Glick column as a reference? You have got to be joking.

 

[delldude]

Using a Caroline Glick column as a reference? You have got to be joking.

Oh my goodness, I bet she's not on the official Veritas approved list of journalists.

Oh, I forgot, nothing from the right is allowed, my apologies.

Are you melting?

 

[777 fixer]

Obama's doing a fine job of foreign relations


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That's not what I asked.

 

[delldude]

That's not what I asked.

Then what do you purpose the US do in the case of Egypt?

I 'purpose' nothing.......

What do you propose?

Tell me now.

 

[dapoes]

OMINOUS: State dept is advising any Americans left in Egypt, leave now! After Thursday, U.S. Government flights out of Egypt are "unlikely."

http://twitter.com/#!/TravelGov

 

[Ms Tree]

Looks like the protests have turned violent according to the news. The state dept is suggesting that everyone who wants to get out do so because US govt flight will cease after thurs.

MSNBC was reporting that if you take the govt flight you ave to sign a paper saying you are good for the equivalent fare which is about $1,700 a person. I wonder how many takers they will get?

 

[delldude]

Looks like the religion of peace is forming a democracy like the lefties foresaw.

I'm like all touchy feelly.