Yadlin: Civil war in Egypt is unlikely
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Following the ouster in Egypt this week of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in Egypt, Maj.-Gen. (ret.) and former military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin, said that the possibility of a civil war taking place in Egypt was low because Egypt had a largely homogenous population unlike Syria, and the population was behind the army. “The army is in the general consensus and the possibility that it would open fire on civilians does not exist,” Yadlin said.
Yadlin was speaking Saturday evening on Channel Two’s news program, Meet the Press.
The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has two choices Yadlin said: either to follow the road map set out by the opposition and win back the regime through the political process for the second time or the more dangerous option of fighting for power in the name of Allah, in the style of al-Qaida.
On the volatile situation in the Sinai Peninsula, that has seen an upsurge in violence since the ouster of deposed President Mohamed Morsi, Yadlin said that security began to deteriorate there during the rule of former President Hosni Mubarak. He added that the army would now feel more comfortable to act against extreme militant Islamist groups in Sinai because, unlike under Morsi, it will fell like it has political backing for its actions.
The military overthrow in Egypt was a blow to Hamas in Gaza, Army Radio cited Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch (Likud Beytenu) as saying on Saturday.
Aharonovitch, speaking at a cultural event in Beersheba, added that Israel had maintained a good connection with the government of Egypt’s first democratically elected president.
Earlier in the day, Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch (Likud Beytenu) said the military overthrow in Egypt was a blow to Hamas in Gaza.
Aharonovitch, speaking at a cultural event in Beersheba, added that Israel had maintained a good connection with the government of Egypt’s first democratically elected president.
WarSclerotic 
July 7, 2013 at 11:19 AM
How can a civil war be avoided now when the islamists have tasted power and Morsi has asked them to defend him with their blood? The army cannot defend from suicide bombers.
Now the Saudi funded Salafists oppose ElBaradei as PM and Egypt is hoping for Saudi investments. I say Morsi will be back one way or the other and he will implement Sharia and kill the opposition. The only way to prevent this is to kill Morsi but if the new government puts the Salafist in power, Egypt will suffer even more than under Morsi. Warning – Five years of Sharia hell ahead? (I really hope I am wrong)
July 7, 2013 at 12:01 PM
July 7, 2013 at 12:06 PM
Qaradawi fatwa: Mursi ouster in Egypt ‘invalid’
Published today 11:43
Egyptian Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi speaks in Cairo.
(AFP/Mahmud Hams, File)
DUBAI (AFP) — Influential Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi on Saturday issued a religious decree, or fatwa, urging Egyptians to support overthrown Islamist president Mohamed Mursi who was toppled by the army on Wednesday.
”Their every action is invalid,” Qaradawi said of ”those who have overthrown the president, suspended the constitution and imposed another president and constitution” on Egypt.
The Qatar-based but Egypt-born cleric published the fatwa on his Internet site.
He urged ”all parties and political groups in Egypt to support correctness and restore President Mursi to his legitimate post”.
”Sharia (Islamic law) imposes on all believers allegiance to the elected president, to carry out his orders and conform to his directives.”
Mursi ”must remain president, and nobody can claim the right to remove him in the name of the people”, Qaradawi added.
”I call on all Egyptians, men and women, young and old, rich and poor, Muslim and Christian, liberal and Islamist to join ranks to protect the gains of the revolution” that overthrew Hosni Mubarak in 2011.
Qaradawi, 86, is regular commentator on Al-Jazeera satellite television and has backed the Arab Spring uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria.
July 8, 2013 at 1:37 AM
Yep shooting people and trowing boys from rooftops is just a local sport !