Netanyahu is freaking out

In 1979, Egypt, the most powerful Arab country and the leader of the movement against Israel, signed peace with Israel, and left the struggle (and was banished from the Arab League). In the same year, Iran, a  one-time staunch ally to Israel, joined the struggle after it underwent its revolution, supplanting Egypt’s pre-Camp David role, and has since led the resistance to Israel.  Yassir Arafat, seeking a benefactor to replace the then banished Egypt, was the first world leader to visit revolutionary Iran. Now that Egypt is undergoing its own revolution and is predicted not necessarily to be an enemy of Israel, but to no longer collaborate with it in regards to suffocating the Gaza Strip or isolating Iran, the Israeli gov’t is now desperate to make up for the Egyptian “loss.”  Just look at what Netanyahu recently said: “I would expect that the world put similar pressure on Iran. Iran is at least equal to Libya, and I believe that its importance is even greater,” said Netanyahu, adding that Iran hopes to “return the region to the ninth century.”  He’s absolutely freaking out about the tectonic shifts underway in the region and is wishing that somehow someway, they can manage to obtain something positive. In other words, he’s effectively saying,  “if the Arab revolutions are going to hurt Israel, maybe we can get the world to treat Iran like Libya so as to win something out of all this uproar.”   Unlike 1979, Israel’s situation will not be lose-win (Iran-Egypt) but lose-lose.