2011 Egyptian revolution orchestrated by Hamas, Hezbullah... and Obama?

Writing in The National, a daily newspaper published in the United Arab Emirates, Bradley Hope attaches much importance to the role of the heretofore largely ignored prison escape of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Morsy in the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Hope reports that escape was orchestrated by Hamas and Hezbullah, and that the revolution started from pro-democracy NGO's financed by the

Egypt's message to the world

Please tell me that this picture - posted by Roger Simon - doesn't say it all:



Translation: Leave Islam out of the picture.

Of course: Erdogan claims Israel behind 'coup' in Egypt

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan claims that Israel is behind the 'coup' that deposed Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Morsy from the Presidency of Egypt.

“Israel is behind the coup in Egypt, we have
evidence,” Erdoğan told members of his party at a meeting in Ankara on
Tuesday. He cited a French intellectual, without mentioning his name,
who, according to Erdoğan, said in

Israel pushing United States to back Egyptian army?

In an earlier post, I reported that 'out friends the Saudis' were pushing the United States to continue to support the Egyptian army and that Israel was trying to stay out of the picture. Now, the New York Times reports that Israel is getting into the picture, and may begin openly pressing the United States to support the Egyptian army.

With the European Union planning an urgent review of its

Steyn: The only thing Egyptians agree on is loathing of Obama, his Secretaries of State and his Ambassador

Mark Steyn at his best on the events in Egypt.

For the same reason, the Gulf monarchies, having weathered the
immediate storms of the Arab spring and understanding the longer-term
threat the Brotherhood represents, have supplanted Washington as Cairo’s
principal paymasters: The $1.5 billion subvention to Egypt was always a
drop in the great sucking maw of the US Treasury; compared to what

Four common misconceptions about Egypt

The Sandmonkey has an interesting post that is addressed to Egyptians, but can help all of us to understand what is going on in that country.

1. The US is not against June 30 



There is a strong held belief in Egypt that the US is against the June 30th
alliance and government, and is waging war against it for the sake of
MB. Egyptians perceive US discussion about cutting military aid as

Europe tries to outdo Obama, 'urgently reviewing' relationship with Egypt

The Europeans are determined to outdo US President Hussein Obama. Europe, which sent foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton to visit Mohammed Morsy in his jail cell, announced on Sunday that they will be 'urgently reviewing' their relationship with Egypt over the coming days.

In a statement, the President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy
and the President of the European Commission

Report: Morsy didn't really win the elections

How reliable is Yossi Beilin as a source? Beilin, a far-Left Israeli former politician claims that deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsy and his Muslim Brotherhood party didn't really win the June 2012 elections, but that the army feared the consequences of announcing what truly happened.


According
to my source, who asked to remain anonymous, Ahmed Shafik, the former
air force

Must read: Crush the Muslim Brotherhood

Daniel Greenfield writes that the Egyptian army should not be stopped from destroying the Muslim Brotherhood.

In the streets of Egyptian cities, Muslim Brotherhood activists
achieved their highest hope. They died in their Jihad against the
liberal opposition and the military, fighting against human rights for
women and Christians, against multi-party rule, freedom of speech,
museums,

It starts: Movement behind Morsi ouster calls on army to renounce Camp David, refuse US money

Last week, President Obama canceled a military exercise with Egypt in response to the crackdown on his friends in the Muslim Brotherhood. Obama complained that the exercise could not go on as 'business as usual.'

In response, the Tamarod movement, which was behind the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood and Mohammed Morsy, has called on the Egyptian army to renounce the Camp David treaty and

Egyptians support army crackdown

Shavua tov, a good week to everyone.

Even the New York Times admits that most Egyptians support their army's crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood.

“It was necessary,” Akmal William, standing in his auto-detailing shop
on Talaat Harb Street, said of the raid by soldiers and police officers.
“They had to be strict.”

Witnesses described a disproportionate, ruthless attack. Condemnations
came

What America's interest in Egypt ought to be

Stanley Kurtz urges the United States to give up its pipe dreams of democracy and to look out for its own interests in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East.

No peace without including the Muslim Brotherhood, which represents
so much of Egypt? Quite right. No peace. What this argument fails to
recognize is that the image of a national reconciliation that
encompasses all parties in Egypt —

Obama golfs, Egypt burns

Hat Tip for the image to Now the End Begins via Jack W.

Jennifer Rubin sums up Egypt's civil war President Obama's monthly vacation.

Obama was briefed, said nothing and went back to golf. Secretary of
State John Kerry took a break from his fruitless obsession with the
nonexistent “peace process” to condemn the violence, but took no
questions and had no policy announcement. This, in a

Video: Egyptian protesters push full armored police van off 50 foot high bridge

Egyptian protesters pushed an armored police van full of officers off the 6th of October Bridge in Cairo on Wednesday, as scores of people were killed in riots touched off by police raids on tent camps set up by supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood.



There's a series of images of the van, and of the police officers inside it lying wounded under the bridge, here. Jerusalem-based cameraman Mick

Egyptian defense chief: Hagel calls every day, but we never hear from Obama; anti-Obama belly dancer video goes viral

An anti-Obama YouTube video made by an Egyptian belly dancer has gone viral with well over 100,000 hits in the last four days. Meanwhile, Egypt's defense chief complains that while he gets regular calls from US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, he has yet to get a single call from President Obama.

Leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is at the vanguard of the
street protests against

US now siding with Egyptian army?

Has there been a change of heart in Washington toward the Egyptian army-led regime of Abdel Fateh el-Sisi? Two indications that the answer to that question is 'yes.'

First, in Washington on Thursday, 86 US Senators beat back an attempt by Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky) to cut off aid to Egypt and use the money for America's roads and bridges.

The
amendment, which 86 senators voted against, was an

Poll: 71% of Egyptians don't want the Muslim Brotherhood back

71% of Egyptians have told pollsters that they don't want to see Mohammed Morsy or the Muslim Brotherhood back.

The Egyptian Center for Public Opinion Research-Baseera survey found that 71 percent of Egyptians
opposed the Brotherhood's protests. A year of Morsi and the
Brotherhood's rigid policies and inflexibility that failed to address Egypt's economic crisis has left many Egyptians

Civil war in Egypt

The picture above was taken in Tahrir Square in Cairo around 7:00 pm on Saturday by an Egyptian blogger named The Big Pharoah. But the action is happening elsewhere in Cairo at a rally of supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and ousted President Mohammed Morsy. The Egyptian health ministry is admitting to 38 deaths at that rally, while the Brotherhood is claiming that more than 100 people have