America’s Alliance With Egypt Is On Verge of Collapse -- Youssef Ibrahim, New York Sun
America’s intricate alliance with Egypt, woven over four decades, is standing on the verge of collapse over the failure of the Obama administration to comprehend the revolution that ousted the Muslim Brotherhood from power in Cairo.
In a cascade of mutual recriminations over the past three days, President Mansour and his prime minister, Hazem Biblawi, described two senior American senators, sent as emissaries of President Barak Obama, as “delusional” and “liars.”
The two senators arrived with demands to release all Muslim Brotherhood leaders being held under arrest and to integrate the party into the new revolutionary government. Otherwise, they warned, the Obama administration will cutoff all financial and military aid to Egypt.
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Update: Anti-U.S. Hostility Ramps Up in Egypt -- Wall Street Journal
My Comment: The Israeli and Arab press are saying essentially the same thing. To put it bluntly .... the U.S. has no coherent policy towards Egypt right now .... instead .... U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is focused on forcing the Israelis to give concessions to the Palestinians on peace talks, and President Obama has gone silent. Even the choice of a new U.S. Ambassador to Egypt is being condemned in Egypt. My suggestion to the White House is simple .... stay out of this mess .... the Egyptians are going to sort this out amongst themselves .... U.S. involvement will only harden everyone's opinions.
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