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The Muslim Brotherhood’s Useful IdiotsThe Egyptian election, the military's response, and the new threats to Israel By Caroline Glick, June 25, 2012 ~ Excerpts from http://frontpagemag.com |
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"This is
You have to
hand it to the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood. They know how to
play power politics. They know how to acquire power. And they know
how to use power.
Last Friday, the day before voters by most accounts elected the
Brotherhood’s candidate Mohamed Morsy to serve as Egypt’s next
president, The Wall Street Journal published a riveting
account...of how the Brotherhood outmaneuvered the secular
revolutionaries to take control of the country’s political space.
It is possible the Brotherhood will stand down in this confrontation with the military over the parliamentary election. But the military will emerge vastly weakened. And when the next round of confrontation inevitably arrives, the military will have even less clout. And so on and so forth.
THE INEVITABILITY of the Islamic takeover of Egypt means that the peace between Israel and Egypt is meaningless. Confrontation is coming.... If it happens slowly, it will be characterized by a gradual escalation of cross-border attacks from Sinai by Hamas and other jihadist groups. Hamas’s sudden eagerness to take responsibility for the mortar attacks against southern Israel as well as Monday morning’s murderous cross-border attack are signs of things to come.
With the Brotherhood ascending to power, the security cooperation Israel has received from the Egyptian security forces in Sinai is over. And the regime won’t suffice with doing nothing to stop terror. It will encourage it.....
In the rapid-path-to-confrontation scenario, the Egyptian military itself will participate in attacks against Israel....
In their attempt to maintain their power and privilege, the first bargaining chip the generals will sacrifice is their support for the peace with Israel. With the US siding with the Brotherhood against the military, maintaining the peace treaty has ceased to be important for the generals....
This dismal situation requires Israel’s leaders to take several steps immediately. First, our leaders must abandon their diplomatic language regarding Egypt. No point is served by not acknowledging that the southern front – dormant since 1981 – has reawakened and that Israel’s peace with Egypt is now meaningless....
Since Israel doesn’t need to actually do or say anything to cause the Egyptians to attack, we might as well be honest in our own discussion of the situation. At a minimum, frank talk will ensure that the steps we take on the ground to meet the challenge of Egypt will be based on reality and not on an attempt to ignore reality. ...However the Egyptian election results pan out, the die has been cast. We must prepare for what is coming.
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