Morsi reportedly under house arrest as troops deploy across Cairo

Armored vehicles and soldiers mass at university, other key sites; top government officials claim military taking over; reports that Egypt’s president and top advisers put under house arrest; Egyptians awaiting word from military; conflicting reports over who controls state TV

By  and  July 3, 2013, 4:13 pm
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi is defiant in the face of millions of protesters, but reports emerging out of Egypt indicate the military be staging a coup to remove him from power. Stay tuned to The Times of Israel’s live blog for all the developments in Egypt.
July 3, 2013 | 8 Comments »

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  2. As for us on the other side…only Marvin the Depressed Robot would find complaint in this news

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    or perhaps … for some reason… a Jew.
    ..
    The army didn’t depose a democracy – Morisi tried the same thing Hamas and Hitler succeeded at ie get elected (most possibly dishonestly) and replace a democratic system with dictatorship.

    So back to the drawing board

    It’s better they all democratically hate Israel and the West because I hate to see a repressed population get nuked – so long as they have made their choices freely – it’s OK to send them to Hell.

  3. The bigger picture is this: With the MB out of power, it signals a regional shift of power from Sunni to Shi’a.

    The KSA, Qatar troublemakers who have been sponsoring Salafists have just taken a beating.

    Bashir Assad must be laughing.

    Iran and Syria have just been handed the Levant.

    Mind you, I am happy Morsi is gone. The MB was a nightmare; but I always though the Shi’a were the lesser of two evils.

    The KSA just got kicked in the teeth.

  5. yamit82 Said:

    What’s missing is a charismatic leader like Nasser and we will have our war.

    the army and al sisi might be popular now. although you are right on the overall prognosis things can improve through stability, like tourism, the MB killed that and thats an exchange earner.

  6. bernard ross Said:

    I think his arm was twisted by the US and qatar. (i posted because I dint want you to get lonely on this page as the only poster 🙂

    Happy to have your company….

    New political model, you don’t like your duly elected leadership the people will bring you down.. Problem is that no leader I believe will be able to satisfy most of the people and now they have seen that they hold the real power political anarchy is strong possibility. A new leader every year of two? Populist policies will have to rule which will make things worse for the people because it will make the economic conditions worse.

    There is no way out for Egypt and things are going to get worse.
    What’s missing is a charismatic leader like Nasser and we will have our war.

  7. yamit82 Said:

    Morsi had been more effective against Hamas than was Mubarak.

    I think his arm was twisted by the US and qatar. (i posted because I dint want you to get lonely on this page as the only poster 🙂 ) It will be interesting to see developments now. I never thought the original arab spring was of value and I know the egyptian people are stttrongly anti semitic but this develpment appears a bit different in that there may be more openess to change re Israel. I am thinking ot the election of the pro Israel university students head who apparently speaks excellent hebrew. however, I am not giddy and proceed with the usual suspicion of egypt. the army will likely keep treaties going, they are anti hamas and I understand there are working relations with the Israel military. The installation of the chief justice in the interim is a very interesting choice.

  8. It’s The Economy Stupid!!! 🙂

    Note: Morsi had been more effective against Hamas than was Mubarak.