Egypt has been plagued in recent days by a political tsunami that will no doubt leave its mark on the coming years and decades. While all scenarios are still possible, what I am confident about anticipating is that Egypt's relations with Israel will get worse, and I personally hope that they will indeed get a lot worse to the point of being severed. The Israelis know that change in Egypt will not be to their benefit. The two largest Israeli newspapers, Yedioth Ahronoth and Maariv, carried the same headline “A New Middle East”, without clarifying whether it is a Middle East where Israel is not welcomed anymore. They both mourned the peace process, and their columnists were in consensus in that Israel is now left without allies. With the tables turned in Egypt, the Israelis returned to their talk about how they prefer security over democracy. This is because they know more than the Americans and the whole world; that a real democracy in the Middle East will spawn governments that are publicly and strongly hostile to Israel. I read some comments which said that Arabs are undemocratic to begin with, and that democracy will bring about Islamist governments, which some expected to resemble the Iranian regime. But it is not a settled matter as the Israelis would like us to believe. It is possible that the current Egyptian policy will remain the same, with minor amendments, through Vice President Omar Suleiman, or that a secular regime supported by Islamists is established, or an Islamist regime controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood. I hope that a new Egyptian government would take the following two decisions immediately: The first decision is to abolish the peace treaty with Israel. This is not a call for war at all, but a call to end the humiliating conditions of the peace treaty, as I read that Israel has ‘allowed' Egypt to deploy 800 soldiers in Sinai to prevent arms smuggling to Gaza. The second decision would be to cancel the natural gas agreement with Israel, as gas continues to flow without interruption through the EMG consortium, at a price that is below the global level. Naturally, the Israelis will rely on the United States to subdue any new Egyptian government, by threatening to cut off economic and military aid if it expresses hostility to the state of Israel. However, I believe that this aid is limited. Further, the Egyptian government will be obliged to adhere to the stance of the public which thrust it into power, a public that no doubt detests Israel. Personally, I understand the arrogance of Israel. It is directly concerned by what may emerge from the developments in Egypt. However, I also find the blatant American interference in Egyptian affairs to be deplorable. The U.S. administration must understand that this will backfire, as Egyptians in a democratic atmosphere will not accept interference in their affairs. The U.S. administration accused the supporters of President Mubarak of violence. The U.S. Envoy Frank Wiesner delivered a letter to President Hosni Mubarak from the Obama administration, urging him to relinquish power immediately. The White House spokesperson Robert Gibbs even said that the administration wants change to happen ‘yesterday'. This is something that only the Egyptian people have the right to say. (There also were other statements about the dictatorship of the Egyptian regime, and that Hosni Mubarak is a pharaoh.) But this same man, Hosni Mubarak, has been in power for 30 years. The Americans have dealt with him each year, nay, each day. And they only discovered that he is a pharaoh when a million Egyptians descended to Tahrir Square? Every Arab ruler is a pharaoh, and all Arab countries are undemocratic. There is no independent rule of law, accountability, transparency or women's rights in any of these countries. But the United States and the European Union already know this. Nonetheless, they have dealt with Arab countries as their interests stipulated, not as the interests of Arab peoples did. Their motivations were, and still are, purely Israeli and oil-related. Thus, the relationship with Egypt is reliant upon its peace treaty with Israel, and every dollar Egypt receives in aid ultimately serves Israel. Soon, the United States and Europe will discover that any regime that may succeed Hosni Mubarak in Egypt will be more hostile to Israel and its Western allies and protectors, as Israel murders, destroys, demolishes the homes of the Palestinians and builds settlements. The Israelis know what change in Egypt really means, and that is why they are in mourning, and why their newspapers are explicitly saying that change is not in the interest of Israel. As an aside, the electronic newspaper the New York Jewish Week rejected a German newspaper headline that said “The Pharaoh in the Fuhrerbunker', stressing that Mubarak is neither a pharaoh nor a Hitler. However, I want to conclude with something that I mention from time to time, which is the fact that the Jews have invented a religion to steal a land from its people. The first paragraph claimed that the Jews were slaves and were persecuted for 210 years in Egypt. But I say that this is a biblical myth, and I dare Dr. Zahi Hawass to show any traces of those ancient Jews, whether in Egypt or Sinai. The same paragraph mentions that the first reference to Abraham in the Torah was his fear that he may be killed in Egypt. This involves chapter 12 in Genesis. The story narrated there about Abraham and his wife Sarah and what they did in Egypt is not fit for publication in a respectable newspaper, even three thousand years later. [email protected]
