The Israeli government reacts:
“‘We believe that Egypt is going to overcome the current wave of demonstrations, but we have to look to the future,’ says the minister in the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel enjoys diplomatic relations and security cooperation with both Egypt and Jordan, the only neighboring states that have signed treaties with the Jewish state. But while it may be more efficient to deal in with a strongman in Cairo – Mubarak has ruled for 30 years – and a king in Amman, democracies make better neighbors, ‘because democracies do not initiate wars,’ he says. ‘Having said that, I’m not sure the time is right for the Arab region to go through the democratic process.'”
That the racist regime in Tel Aviv, which pretends to be a “democracy,” believes “the time is not right” for Arabs to enjoy the benefits of democracy — witness their own treatment of their Arab subjects — is hardly surprising. What’s surprising is that they openly say so. In this, they agree with Joe Biden, whose remarks to PBS explicitly referenced Israel as one reason to look on the protests with a jaundiced eye. With American politicians, it’s all about Israel.
