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27 June '11
http://blog.camera.org/archives/2011/06/is_this_man_the_next_president.html
Observers interested in learning the dynamics of the upcoming elections in Egypt should pay attention to the candidacy of Mohammed Salim al-Awa. Al-Awa, who previously served as Secretary General of the International Union for Muslim Scholars, an Islamist think-tank, has plans for Egypt and they are not good. He wants to tear up the Camp David treaty with Israel. He wants to support terrorist organizations that attack Israel and wants to form an alliance with Iran.
He described his plans during a recent speech at Alexandria University in March. An excerpt of his video is available on Youtube in a video that was uploaded on March 10, 2011. (The following summary is a rough translation of al-Awa's speech, which was given in Arabic.)
During the course of his speech, which was punctuated by applause, al-Awa portrayed the Camp David Treaty Egypt signed with Israel in 1979 as merely a hudna or ceasefire. He begged the Egyptian people to cancel the peace treaty Egypt signed with Israel in 1979.
“We need a normal relationship with Israel,” he told the audience. “As an enemy with a hudna between us.”
Clearly, this language needs some parsing. On one hand, al-Awa declares that he wants to have a “normal relationship with Israel.” But then in the next breath he declares Israel an enemy of Egypt.
Subsequently, al-Awa states that an “enemy with a hudna is not a friend… is not someone we care about. This is just a hudna.”
Al-Awa then declares that there has not bee one treaty in the history of mankind that has not been ripped up. He then states “I’m warning you Egyptians, don’t let the Zionists rip up the agreement before you.”
Later in his speech, he states that he wants to put Israel “in her right place, as an enemy of Arabs, Islam and Egypt.”
Al-Awa also declared that he wants Egypt to have a normal relationship with all the resistance movements. He then listed them by name. Included in this list were Hamas and Hezbollah. He also declared that Egypt should serve as a base of support and protection for groups that attack Israel.
“We are the house,” Al-Awa said. “We are the house that all the resistance must come out of. We are the cave. We are the cave. If they get caught, they come to us.”
He also stated that Egypt should provide money and weapons to groups that attack Israel.
“Hosni Mubarak prevented Egypt from doing these duties,” he said. “The relationship with Israel prevented us from doing these things.”
He also appeals to the young people of Egypt to demand that Egypt establish a “healthy relationship” with the resistance movements that fight against Zionism.
Apparently referring to ousted President Hosni Mubarak’s efforts to keep a lid on terrorism, al-Awa said that making an enemy of someone who is trying to defend you is the behavior of someone who has something loose in their head.
Al-Awa also calls for the establishment of normal relations with Iran.
“We need a normal relationship with Iran my brothers and sisters. Iran is not an enemy of us,” he said. “Iran is not a Jewish state. […] They have the culture. They have the civilization and Islam. They are trying to spread their culture, civilization and Islam.”
Egypt shares the same values and has the same goals as Iran, al-Awa told the audience.
“We’re trying to spread our culture our civilization and Islam,” he said, adding that instead of blaming others [Iran], Egypt should follow its example.
“The Iranian plan [for the Middle East] is an Egyptian plan, is an Islamic plan that unites, does not separate people with phony excuses,” he said. “My brother and sisters, these plans are for the Egyptian population. … It came out of this nation and now its coming back to us. If we do not do this plan, this region will be shredded to pieces like the Americans wanted to do.”
Another Presidential candidate, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood who is popular amongst young people in Egypt has stated he is willing to abandon his campaign to make way for Al-Awa.
In another speech, al-Awa expressed a desire to put Jews living in Israel into settlements under Muslim control. Under al-Awa's plan, Jews would not be able to leave these settlements without permission.
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Re: "Is this man the next president of Egypt ? "
ReplyDeleteAba Ebam of Israel once stated most correctly:
"Israel owes a debt of sorts to the Arabs. The Arab nations never missed an opportunity, to miss an opportunity."
The chilling words that have issued directly from the lips of Mohammed Salim al-Awa, who may eventually become Egypt's President, (whether it is sooner or later does not really matter), are words that must be seen as a wake up call not just for the State of Israel, but for the entire world.
I refer to Aba Ebam's famous observation, of course, because once again, Israel's adversaries have committed a serious tactical mistake- this time in using such bellicose language and then being kind enough to broadcast their very dark intentions for the entire world to hear and fully understand with crystal clear clarity.
Israel would be the first to agree that blissful ignorance is a dangerous thing and so must thank Al-Awa for stating so openly what he has in mind for Israel's future when he becomes President of Egypt.
Egypt's rising leader has not painted a very rosy picture for how it will be for the Jews of Israel if he has any say in the matter as he promises an Armageddon for the Jews of biblical proportions.
Can anyone, does anyone, realistically believe or expect, that Israel would now make territorial concessions that weaken Israel's security in exchange for a treaty, regardless of with whom, when a likely future ruler of the region's most powerful Arab state, has openly declared that Israel's treaty with Egypt should be considered "null and void".
Israel traded the entire Sinai, fully half of the territory Israel controlled after the Six Day War just to obtain the 'Peace' Treaty with Egypt that Al-Awa has said is meaningless and headed for the shredder.
Finally, the entire world, thanks to Mohammed Salim al-Awa, has had their blinders removed.
The statements of Mohammed Salim al-Awa, spoken to thunderous applause, are in my humble opinion a true "game changer".
Would any sane person want to wager that the statements of Mohammed Salim al-Awa, do not reflect the widespread feelings and political views of countless other countries in that region who have never shown much liking for the State of Israel.
Now at long last it is all finally out in the open. The cards are all turned face up on the diplomatic table.
President Obama was once forced to go to great pains to try to distance himself from statements and views of people he knew well and was quite close to- including his own personal Pastor who once said:
"Not God Bless America but God damn America".
It will be most interesting and illuminating to watch and see how the White House and State Dept try to play down the recorded statements of the man who may soon become the most powerful leader of any Arab nation.
And obviously all the other Arab nations will rapidly fall under the long shadows of Egypt's great pyramids -especially in view of Egypt's new expected allies in the region.
What was once perceived and praised by so many as the new "Arab Spring" and greeted with so much jubilation and fanfare may sooner than anyone dare imagine, evolve into something Israel had always hoped and prayed could be prevented and/or avoided.
-A nuclear winter.