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.â€Â 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.
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Ha! You are dillusional.
Egypt might say some unfriendly stuff toward Israel.
Egypt could do whatever she wants, they need Americans as an allie more than isolated Iran as a friend. American’s friendship would come with a cost and the Egyptian Army, who controls great amount power in the current rulling party and is heavily dependent on American military supplies, knows it very well.
BTW: if you for a second think Americans will abandon Israel as an allie, that’s another sign of you being a dillusional. If anything, the recent events in the Middle East has shown not a single Arab country would be considered stable government and a stable Allie in the region. Americans need that stronghold in the region, Americans need that 51st State in the region, and that is Israel.
Therefore, Egyptian borders with Israel will be as secured as before and it is all Israel is looking for.
But you are dillusional and I have a feeling that you have a selective mentality to read a piece of news and make disproportionate conclusion out of it.
All you said was to allege that I’m delusional. You offered zero insight nor did you discuss my points.
Egypt remain will probably remain an American ally and will probably maintain the peace agreement but gone are the days where they will collaborate w Israel over their murderous policies in Gaza and gone are those days will they will have a one-dimensional approach to Iran.
Mubarak despised Iran bc of Iranian support for Hamas. Look at the wikileaks cable. The Egyptian regime especially loathed Hamas’ takeover of Gaza bc they perceived it as Iran coming to its doorstep, but now that Mubarak is gone and with the Muslim Brother playing a bigger decision-making role in gov’t, it will be less likely that they will view Iran and Hamas w such hostility, especially since Hamas’ origins lay w the Brotherhood.
As for needing a stable ally in the Middle East, what is Israel’s strategic importance to the US? If offers no strategic importance, it’s actually a liability to US interests in the region and more and more American commanders are saying so, most recently Gen. Petraeus.