To Avoid Total Collapse Will Egypt Go To War Against Israel?

An Egyptian watch tower is seen close to the construction site of a fence on the border between Israel and Egypt along Israel's Highway 12 near Eilat. Photo by Reuters

Will Egypt Save Itself From Total Collapse By Going To War With Israel? -- Lee Smith, Tablet

Agents of Influence: With the nation divided, in turmoil, and lacking hope for peaceful prosperity, a Middle East neighbor has reason to fear.

The Egyptian military has given President Mohamed Morsi until today to resolve the country’s political crisis or else it will step in. “If the people’s demands are not met,” Gen. Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, announced on Monday, the army “will have to disclose its own future plan.”

Aside from promising that “no one party will be excluded or marginalized,” Sisi failed to elaborate on his roadmap to restore stability to Egypt. That’s perhaps because no one, not the government, not Morsi’s ruling Muslim Brotherhood-aligned Freedom and Justice party, not the army, nor even the protesters themselves know what it is that the 3 million people who have taken to the streets of Egypt are demanding. The unhappy reality is that in all likelihood, the vast majority of the protesters do not want anything except to end the chaos in their country, which they apparently aim to do by gorging themselves on violence.

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My Comment: Zero possibility is my 'off-the-cuff' prediction on what are the chances of a war between Egypt and Israel. But .... if someone came to me three years ago and told me that Gaddafi would be dead, Egypt's President Mubarak will be in prison, Syria will be convulsed by a horrific sectarian civil war, Hezbollah is mired deep in Syria's civil war, Lebanon is on the brink, Tunisia's dictator is gone, U.S. troops are out of Iraq, and all the secrets of the NSA now exposed for all to see .... I would have also said "no-way" .... zero possibility.

Bottom line .... when the situation is fluid in a place like the Middle East .... anything and everything is possible.