Egypt to pursue relationship with Hezbollah
Egypt to pursue relationship with Hezbolla… JPost – Middle East.
( And the US is delivering f-16s to Egypt when? Next week? – JW )
Photo: REUTERS
In a dramatic policy shift, Egypt will seek to forge “tight” relations with the Hezbollah terror organization, Egyptian Ambassador to Lebanon Ashraf Hamdy revealed in a candid interview published Saturday in Lebanon’s Daily Star.
“You cannot discuss politics in Lebanon without having a relationship with Hezbollah,” Hamdy was quoting as saying, before describing the terror group as “real force on the ground” with “big political and military influence.”
In this respect, Hamdy announced that Muslim-Brotherhood-dominated Egypt would begin “stretching [its] hand out in the proper, balanced way to all regional powers,” including Hezbollah, in order to forge “tight” contacts with Lebanon’s rulers.
Egypt-Hezbollah relations, generally strained under former President Hosni Mubarak, in large part due to Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel, reached rock bottom in 2008 during Israel’s Cast Lead military operation. At that time, Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah called on Egypt, to no avail, to intervene militarily on behalf of Gaza-based Palestinians. For its part, Egypt in the past has accused Hezbollah of operating terror cells in the country.
In his interview, Hamdy denied reports that Hezbollah had sent a delegation to Egypt to meet with President Mohamed Morsi’s regime, but confirmed that he personally had met with members of Hezbollah’s political bureau in efforts “to understand each other better.”
“In discussions we said we want Hezbollah to remain as a political force in Lebanon,” Hamdy said.
“Resistance in the sense of defending Lebanese territory…[is] their primary role. We…think that as a resistance movement they have done a good job to keep on defending Lebanese territory and trying to regain land occupied by Israel is legal and legitimate,” he continued.
Hamdy concluded by saying that while domestic concerns had slowed Egypt from undertaking new, ambitious foreign policy objectives, the country ultimately sees itself playing an instrumental role in the region.
“Egypt’s soft power is its strength,” Hamdy said. “To expect 180 degree shifts in strong positions take some time…. Egypt will reveal itself as a real regional power and a ‘doer’ on the regional scene and we are keen to show that.”
WarSclerotic 
December 29, 2012 at 1:01 PM
So the Muslim Brotherhood has won in Egypt and we see the consequences. And yet there will be almost no one to take the Western leaders (especially Obama ) and media to account for their stupidity two years ago. All those rosy predictions about the Arab Spring . The Israelis have yet again been proven right and the US and European media dead wrong. How is it possible that such a glaring example of incompetence and ignorance cannot be exposed? The Israeli media should rub it in.
Two years on – who was right on the Egyptian crisis?
http://www.madisdead.blogspot.co.il/2012/12/two-years-on-who-was-right-on-egyptian.html
December 29, 2012 at 2:16 PM
Nobody gives a shit about the “Israeli media.” The only thing that will force its exposure is reality on the ground. And maybe not even then…
December 29, 2012 at 3:47 PM
Right JW reality is its shit hit fan time and i was right about russia being the string puller,now its time for our leaders to stop acting lke cowards and attack as the longer this gos on the more military assets the Russians can move into place,anyone reading this and shitting yourself your ether a coward or a idiot,Russia Iran and syria are ants they know it,there presuming obama is weak and bluff which is a huge mistake as he is not,this is a classic smoke your enemy’s out before you kill them
December 29, 2012 at 6:29 PM
It might be true that nobody gives a shit about the “Israeli media” but nobody in Israel even tried to bring the subject up. The subject of the US and European media being constantly wrong about everything related to the jihadists, that is. The western media tell us to negotiate with Hamas while only a week ago Mashaal in Gaza reiterated he would never recognize Israel. They praise the Arab Spring and dismiss Israeli warnings about the Muslim Brotherhood and of course, they are proven wrong yet again.
If nobody gives a shit about the Israeli media they would certainly listen to what the Israeli PM would say. Imagine if the PM held a press conference in which he would invite all these foreign correspondents and ask them point blank why is it that they get their reporting so drastically wrong? The Mashaal and Morsi examples are clear proof that the western media have no idea what they are doing.
When it comes to Iran the flight from reality is even more absurd. Almost nobody discusses the magnitude of the Iranian threat. The only people who truly understand the problem, scholars of Islam like Bernard Lewis and Raphael Israeli are never interviewed. Netanyahu quoted Bernard Lewis in his speech to the UN General Assembly but he could ask the assembled journalists why they never touch on the question of the Mahdi, the Hidden 12th imam and the death of the mutually assured destruction doctrine and why don’t they quote Bernard Lewis.
Israel has to start a public relations offensive and bring these taboo topics up, because sooner rather than later Israel will have to preempt the Iranian nuclear threat.
December 29, 2012 at 7:36 PM
The main problem with the western media is that nearly all the let slanted publications have to some extent been infiltrated by the quakers and there sick views,epically the bbc,its there long term strategy for subverting the west,and imposing there ridiculous Marxist ideals which there doing rater successfully
December 29, 2012 at 5:17 PM
Reblogged this on servehiminthewaiting.
December 30, 2012 at 3:47 AM
When it comes to the Western media, it’s not a question of right or wrong. It’s too corrupt to matter. These “journalists” have an agenda and their own view of the world. Unfortunately, Israel ain’t in it. The Western media is full of leftest hacks who despise God, Judeo-Christian values, truth, and conservatism. Everything has to be ‘politically correct’ and they will fight to the bottom of the page to defend Islam at the expense of Christianity and Judism. Make no mistake. They hate you and everything you represent. As a result, NOTHING they ‘report’ is surprising to me.
December 30, 2012 at 10:06 PM
The western media is corrupt beyond hope.
The leftsists/collectivists have totally infiltrated the educational, judicial, political and educational system and the media and even the church.
Their victory would have been total if it were not for one real revolution, the internet.
The filthstream media are becoming increasingly irrelevant since more and more people are unwilling to pay for their lies and substandard journalism.
I was delighted, to read the news that the leftist gutter paper “Frankfurter Rundschau” is now bankrupt.
The big thing about the internet is, that for the first time in human history the average joe can reach potentially millions of people in an instant and the costs of doing this are so small that nearly everyone can afford to do so.
This breaks the monopoly that up to now a few had on the spread of information.
The full extend and historical significance of this revolution is still not grasped fully by many people.
The ultimate and decisive battle is the battle for the cyberspace.
We have to win this battle if want to have any chance for our beloved western judeo-christian civilisation to survive.
December 31, 2012 at 6:00 AM
Well said, AR and may I add that the internet is already under attack by the likes of the UN and China. Losing the internet to any one of these characters will put us all into a modern day ‘dark ages’.
December 31, 2012 at 7:56 PM
Dont worry we have our own Internet its called dark net and we rule there