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Egypt has been Israel’s near partner in maintaining peace, albeit a ‘cold peace’, for many years. What would a democratic government in Egypt do to that process, especially if it was the Muslim Brotherhood who controlled the Government?
“The Israeli government is freaking out,” said Dr Shmuel Bachar, at the Israel Institute for Policy and Strategy. “For the past 30 years we have depended on Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel. Now, suddenly, we have rediscovered the existence of something called an Egyptian public, the existence of which we’ve vigorously tried to ignore.” (here)
The President of the United States has, at the first, refused to almost make any statements calling for anything but support of a 30-year dictatorship. Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has been less committal.
So my question is this: To what end is Zionism, Christian or otherwise, or maybe better, the fear that democratic Arabic nations may threaten Israel in some way playing into the world (non-)reaction to the what is happening in Egypt?
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- Mubarak sees Brotherhood plotting behind protests – Reuters Africa (news.google.com)
- Egypt protests: stability is returning, President Hosni Mubarak’s allies claim (telegraph.co.uk)
- “Israel Wants Mubarak Toppled” and related posts (aangirfan.blogspot.com)
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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