Daily Slave
July 26, 2014
The Egyptian military regime led by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is actually siding with Israel in its conflict against Hamas. al-Sisi appears to be continuing the pro-Jew, pro-America, pro-Israel policies that seemed to exist under former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak. It is truly sad, especially considering that a large majority of the population supports the anti-Israel Muslim Brotherhood which was originally ousted from power by al-Sisi in a military coup just a short while ago. He recently met with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry who was subjected to a metal detector screening before visiting with him. Considering that meeting, it isn’t much of a surprise that we see this stance from Egypt.
From USA Today:
An echo of the anti-Hamas rhetoric coming from Israel during its conflict with Gaza is resonating from what many would consider a surprising corner since fighting erupted July 8: Egypt.
A country whose leader just over a year ago had been a close Hamas ally is now one of its principal antagonists. It is stirring up public opinion against the militant group because Hamas is the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, which Egypt has outlawed.
Normally, Egyptians would be decrying Israel for the Palestinian death toll in Gaza, which is at more than 750 and rising. But Abou Ahmed Shehab, 60, who sells scarves at a sidewalk stand in central Cairo, was quick to attack Hamas.
“The reason for what’s happening to our Palestinian brothers is because of Hamas,” he says. “Hamas is an extremist group.”
Last summer, the Egyptian military ousted Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Morsi as president and jailed him. It branded the Islamist group a terrorist organization and threw thousands of its leaders and members in jail. Hundreds were killed as the Islamic movement became the focus of a security crackdown.
Since then, a military-backed government that is now led by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who went from military strongman to elected president this past spring, has succeeded in stoking anti-Islamist sentiment among a large swathe of Egypt’s public. Both state-run and privately owned media have helped fuel the anti-Hamas attitudes.