by Dr. Reuven Berko
-- megalomania, hypocrisy, double talk, and in particular a divisive and violent radical Islamist agenda are leading the Arab leaders to saw off the very branch they sit on
The attitude of the
Arab Gulf states toward Egypt under President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi is a
good example of the insanity of considerable parts of the Arab world,
whose twisted suicidal reasoning is unclear to many people outside it.
Given the American
wipeout in the Middle East, leaders of the Persian Gulf states are very
well aware that the only support they can expect against the expected
Iranian aggression on the Arabian Peninsula comes from Egyptian military
might. Nevertheless, megalomania, hypocrisy, double talk, and in
particular a divisive and violent radical Islamist agenda are leading
the Arab leaders to saw off the very branch they sit on.
The competition for
hegemony, a tangle of conflicting economic and political interests and
defensive manipulations, along with drives for expansion and survival,
are leading the Gulf states to arm and fund the radical Sunni terrorist
movements in Syria and Iraq to check the growth and terrorism of Shiite
Iran, whose military provocations and threat to the Sunni Arab Gulf
states is increasing.
But in effect they are encouraging Islamic terrorism in Egypt.
Turkey and Qatar have
not accepted the loss of former President Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim
Brotherhood, and have not relinquished their dream of an Islamic empire.
The Saudis, because of their money, reject Egypt as the "Arab mother
state." Mistaken U.S. policy confers transient status on el-Sissi's
regime. All of Egypt's attempts to ingratiate itself with Saudi Arabia
-- the military guarantees, the delegations, and the gifts of the Tiran
and Sanafir islands -- failed to do the trick.
There is an Arab
proverb that says, "Starve your dog so he will obey you." While battling
Iran, the Gulf states are inciting for el-Sissi to be ousted while
supplying stingy amounts of money and fuel just to humiliate him and
keep him "alive," beaten, and needy -- a thug who can attack Tehran for
them. While the Al Jazeera network presents the Egyptian president as a
sex criminal, an agent of Iran, Israel, and America, a corrupt official
who sells weapons to the Houthi rebels in Yemen, the Egyptian government
is vulnerable to incitement and terrorism from the Muslim Brotherhood
and their protectors in the Gulf (Al Jazeera), flooding, monstrous
demographics (thanks to the Islamic ban on birth control), inflation,
shortages of fuel, sugar, rice and raw materials, as well as the threat
of the water level in the Nile River dropping and a hit to its $55
billion tourism industry.
To encourage his
suffering, restive, exposed-to-incitement people, el-Sissi told them
that he lived for a decade with nothing in the refrigerator other than a
bottle of water. In response, the Saudi king mocked him, delayed
shipments of fuel and visas to Saudi Arabia for Egyptians and made
threats that el-Sissi would fall, like then-President Hosni Mubarak. In
response to the intra-Arab scheming, el-Sissi invited the Russians to
conduct a joint military exercise and recently voted against the Arabs
-- and with Iran, Russia and Syria -- in the U.N. Security Council on a
solution to the Syrian crisis, knowing that the fall of Syrian President
Bashar Assad and the success of the Islamists would make him the next
target. If the Gulf states don't change their policy soon, they'll wind
up getting a refrigerator full of explosives from him.
Dr. Reuven Berko
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=17531
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