EL BARADEI: IT’S MUBARAK’S PEACE WITH ISRAEL…NOT EGYPT’S
ElBaradei: Israel has peace agreement with Mubarak, not with Egypt
One of the reasons that the revolt in Egypt is so important is what their new government’s foreign policy will be.
The Middle East is tumultuous at the best of times, but Egypt hasn’t been a part of the fighting since 1973 with the exception of a brief skirmish with Libya in 1977.
Now, it looks like Mubarak’s regime will fall. Mubarak is 83 years old, and the current riots make it seem unlikely that he will hold onto power until Egypt’s election this fall.
At the moment, the most likely successor is Mohammad ElBaradei.
ElBaradei shared a Nobel Peace Prize with the IAEA in 2005. In my eyes, this is no honor. For some reason, the Nobel Prize committee likes to award terrorists like Yasser Arafat, do-nothing leftist ideologues like Barack Obama (nominated after only 2 weeks in office), Al Gore for his fraudulent “Inconvenient Truth” movie, and Nelson Mandela the communist rebel.
He cautioned the west against attacking the theocratic despots in Iran. “You do not want to give additional argument to some of the ‘new crazies’ who want to say let us go and bomb Iran.”
In July of 2010, he said, “the danger of a nuclear-armed Iran is overestimated” From the position of someone who lives in a country Iran calls “The Great Satan”, I find it tough to imagine how much of a danger a nuclear Iran would be. To ElBaradei, though it isn’t something we need to worry about. Or rather, it isn’t something he worries about, because he doesn’t mind if Israel or the US gets nukes.
Of the Muslim Brotherhood, he said, “I have been reaching out to them. We need to include them.” This about a group which allied with Nazi Germany and now dedicated to the absolute implementation of Sharia law,
Muslim Brotherhood representative Muhammed Ghannem said, “the people should be prepared for war against Israel,” saying the world should understand that “the Egyptian people are prepared for anything to get rid of this regime.”
In his interview with Der Spiegel, ElBaradei echoed this sentiment saying, “At the moment, they (the Israelis) have a peace treaty with Mubarak, but not one with the Egyptian people.”
It seems increasingly likely that ElBaradei will come to power in Egypt, and that it will mean war if he does. What is the US response? We are calling for “an orderly transition“
That is simply counter to the interests of the United States. With ElBaradei in charge, the middle east will be more violent, and the world will be less safe.
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