American-Backed Egyptian “Moderate” (Next President?) Threatens War On Israel!
Everything has been so predictable. Designated “moderate” and U.S.-backed Egyptian leader Muhammad ElBaradei has made a profoundly shocking statement that should change U.S. policy overnight, show how disastrous Obama Administration policy was, and mark the beginning of the coming electoral defeat for the president.
But presumably nothing will change.
ElBaradei, a presidential candidate, said the following:
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“If Israel attacked Gaza we would declare war against the Zionist regime.”
And he’s the moderate! In other words:
–Despite repeated ridiculing of Israeli concerns, it is increasingly likely that the next Egyptian government will tear up the Egypt-Israel peace treaty.
–Egypt will be an ally of Hamas, a revolutionary Islamist terrorist group that openly calls for genocide against Jews and the wiping out of Israel. (Samantha Powers, alleged anti-genocide champion, where are you?)
–By making such irresponsible and warlike statements, ElBaradei is encouraging Hamas to attack Israel to provoke such a war. As I pointed out, events in Egypt are making such a war inevitable.
–In his interview with Al-Watan, ElBaradei also said:
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“In case of any future Israeli attack on Gaza–as the next president of Egypt– I will open the Rafah border crossing and will consider different ways to implement the joint Arab defense agreement.”
Think about what that means! Muslim Brotherhood and other volunteers will flood into Gaza to fight the Jews. Arms from Iran and Syria will pour into the Gaza Strip including longer-range missiles, landed openly at Egyptian ports.
And that “joint Arab defense agreement”? That means Egypt would consult with Syria and other Arab states about joining the war, spreading it throughout the region.
Thank you, President Obama!
Of course, to be fair, ElBaradei might not get elected as president of Egypt. His opponent, Amr Moussa, is a radical nationalist who likes to play demagogue but seems preferable to the “American” candidate.
To make things even worse, such statements cannot be attributed to ElBaradei being a front-man for the Muslim Brotherhood since he is now quarreling with them, though presumably they will still vote for him to be president.
And, of course, it can be honestly said that he is just being demagogic to win votes. The problem is that Arab leaders are often demagogic to win support after they are elected to office or seize power.
Or maybe the Egyptian army will stop such a war? They will be pragmatic and say, “Look, if we fight Israel the United States will cut off our weapons and military aid. We might lose. And what about the waste of resources that we badly need at home?”
But believe it or not a lot of Egyptians think that they could defeat Israel and that only President Husni Mubarak and the Americans are holding them back. A lot of officers probably believe that, being too young to remember the 1967 war. Or they might be swept away by revolutionary, nationalist, and religious enthusiasm. And they might be afraid to seem like Israel’s “protectors” and thus traitors to Egypt and the revolution.
That’s how Arab politics works. But, of course, all the “best and brightest” in the U.S. government (the political appointees at least), those running American intelligence, the White House, the academic “experts,” and the mass media don’t understand it.
And to be fair once again, obviously President Obama and his administration is not responsible for the Egyptian revolution. But there is a long list of factors that do make it their fault:
They rushed the process of change; made it inevitable by demanding that the revolution succeed; acted so that it included the entire regime and not just Mubarak personally; preemptively approved the Muslim Brotherhood as a government party, didn’t press the regime for guarantees to Israel; made the new rulers feel that they can get away with anything; among other things.
Then there are the broader mistakes made previously: acting so weak that it emboldened radicals and makes everyone assume that the United States can’t or won’t do anything to enforce its interests; pressed Israel to minimize sanctions on the Hamas regime; gave several hundred million dollars to the Gaza Strip; defined only al-Qaida as an enemy and all other radical Islamists as moderates-in-training; coddled rather than comforted Syria and–to a lesser extent–Iran; distanced themselves from Israel; among other things.
What will it take for the United States and Europe to realize that they have uncorked the bottle and let out the genie? How’s this sound as an election slogan: Obama got taken for a ride, millions died?
El Baradei has been a scoundrel from the word ‘Get go’ any good face reader could have told you that; its only the wacko leftists and phony liberals who, with a dose of bigotry fell for this rascal!
Oh and by the way, if he’s such a constitutional expert, I’d expect him to follow it every once and a while.
Man, you’ve got your head so far up Obummer’s ass, I can’t tell where he ends and you begin. “…Constitutional expert that believes everyone should be treated equally”? You have to be kidding here, do you really believe that? Do you have a skittles shitting unicorn in your back yard also? “Treats Jews and Muslims equally”? What demand has he made of Muslims? Because he’s got pages of demands on Jews. Thats your brand of equality, not mine. Keep your money, we don’t need it.
Anything can happen but back then Gaza was under Egyptian military control and Nasser massed the Egyptian military along Israel’s borders, proclaiming that they are about to push the Jews into the sea.
All I can say is read Ambassador Michael Oren’s book Six Days of War and then you’ll understand how it could happen, even when no one on the Arab side actually wants it and even if they know they’ll loose.
Obama had nothing to do with the fall of Mubarak. The information I found regarding U.S. involvement pertained to a 25 year old agency that is under the auspices of the State Department (I think), something about U. S. Intelligence Information Agency, or some such, that operates independent of the U.S. government in assisting and training people from various countries worldwide in their efforts to bring about democracy. It’s first success was Poland’s Solidarity Movement. There could be many groups operating at any one time, and people from many countries participating. It was obvious there would be a change in Egypt soon due to Mubarak’s age.
Does Israel still receive aid from the U.S.? When I see the way Obama is referenced by some Jews, I wonder how smart it is to offend the president of a donor country… It appears to me that the gripe against him is he treats the Jews and Muslims equally, gives money to both and wants the Jews to share Jerusalem. We know that will never happen. The Jews are in charge of that trolley, and it’s totally their decision to make. But I don’t see how one can fault a U.S. Constitutional Expert for believing everyone should be treated equally. Jews may not like it, Arab Muslims don’t like it either, but it may eventually bring peace. I think Obama comes from the School of Don’t Complain, Don’t Explain. My father was that way too. Maybe it’s an effort to keep one’s dignity, when there are so many others trying to tear it down. These are my personal views only.
El baradie? Is aiming at the Egyptian street. Don’t all politicians pander to the populist notions to the masses they seek support from?
Who ever takes the reins of political power must be acceptable to both the Army leadership in Egypt but most importantly the Muslim Brotherhood!
Egypt doesn’t have to go to war, just adopt Hamas with open borders to Egypt along with all the material support necessary to attack Israel. Egypt who is the direct competitor with Iran over control of the Sunni Arab ME will seek to become the chief benefactor of Hamas much as Hezbollah is to Iran and Syria. They cut out Iran and cause harm to Israel. Win Win for them.
El baradie is a jihadist. This is the same cretin who provided cover for the Iranian regime’s nuclear weapons program as head of the IAEA. The nuclear weapons which Iran has threatened to perpetrate another holocaust against the Jews. So it is no shock that el baradie is issuing threats against Israel.
By the way, I seriously doubt that ANY Egyptian leader would get suckered into a war with Israel over a Gaza incursion. They’re not nuts.
Ted said,
It was predictable, but not predicted by that many. Most observers were starry-eyed. As I’ve said several times now, “Prepare for war”.
The Obama administration was instrumental in the fall of the Mubarak government. This was not in our national interest. Obama is actually only a tool of his patron George Soros. The U.S. policy is being dictated by the evil meglamaniac monster Soros. Obama needs to be impeached now on this basis. Obama, Elbaradei, the International Crisis group, samantha powers, and the plethera of Open Society social media groups are dupes of Soros. OBAMA IS THE MOST CORRUPT AND DANGEROUS PERSON, A MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE AND NEEDS TO BE IMPEACHED NOW. Who in the U.S. Congress will have the courage to start this impeachment?