Under Al-Sisi, A New Egypt?

Over at Gates of Vienna there an interesting piece by Ashraf Ramelah, founder and president of Voice of the Copts examining the new presidency of Abdel Al-Sisi in Egypt:

As the live airwaves of Egypt’s state TV deliver the Al Azhar lectures cautioning against apostasy and Atheism to all those carrying state-issued I.D. cards indicating Egypt’s official religion, Egypt’s newly installed president, Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi, foregoes public prayers and mosque attendance as the first modern leader ever to skip over this tradition within his initial days of office. Since the uprising of January 2011 against former President Mubarak — propelled by a platform of human rights, equal rights, secularism and religious freedom which in turn brought down Mubarak’s successor, Mohammed Morsi — more and more Egyptians have fled Islam by quietly claiming Atheism and enduring the harassment that comes with it.

Likewise, those converting to Christianity proclaim Atheism in order to avoid death threats. Now, however, unlike earlier times, Muslims are apt to keep their Islamic birth names rather than switch to Christian ones like David or Maria. Rejecting the practice of matching one’s name to one’s religion is seen as bold and dangerous — introducing Christianity into personal circles. But it is consistent with the outcome of the recent presidential election hoped and seen by some as a potentially fierce challenge to the theocratic state. Generally, the name-religion change means that the very personal matter of spiritual belief and departure from Islam and the mosque must remain on the sly to avoid the treachery embodied in religious juridical law.

Al Azhar University is one of the centers of Sunni Islamic learning and jurisprudence, founded in the 10th century by the Fatimids.It represents all four Sunni fiqhs (schools of sharia jurisprudence)and is a powerful influence in Egypt,where Sunni Islam is the official state relion and the laws are based on Sharia.

Is al-Sisi taking Al Ahzar on? I doubt it, but there seems to be an interesting balancing act going on.

President Al-Sisi was installed this month on June 8 in a swearing-in ceremony before Egypt’s Constitutional Court surrounded by representatives from many nations — heads of state and high-ranked envoys — including a member of the U.S. State Department. Almost three years after Egypt’s first uprising, a president enters office knowing that the 23 million votes cast for him (more than double cast for Morsi) were cast for a better future, and not, as in the past, for provisions of rice and oil. Egypt’s electorate, mindful of turmoil in Libya and Syria, chose Mr. Al-Sisi, a man with backbone; now Iraq’s ISIS (a terror faction working alongside Al Qaida) threatens Egypt and Al-Sisi, and Egyptians count on their former field marshal and backer of the freedom movement to defend Egypt’s borders and continue to extinguish internal terrorism.

This paragraph is key. Al-Sisi represents the Egyptian Army, the one government institution that can be said to actually function.While many Egyptians, especially in rural Egypt voted for Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood,it was to get rid of a corrupt government that wasn't doing very well at running the economy or feeding Egypt's 80 million people. Morsi's election was based on the Brotherhood's soup kitchens and social welfare apparatus that at least seemed to be working, and the promise to extend that perceived competence to Egypt's entire society. However,once Morsi took over, ordinary Egyptians realized that what the Brotherhood was really adept at was not economics or governing but tyranny and control.

 

Egyptians see al-Sisi as someone they can depend on the secure law and order and deal with Egypt's myriad problems, not the least of which are al-Qaeda backed factions on its borders with Libya and in Sinai, where they are working with their fellow Islamists in Hamas-ruled Gaza.

And Al-Sisi seems to be sending out signals that he likewise relies on them:

Sending shockwaves through the public sensibility giving hope to modern Egyptians, Al-Sisi’s actions on two occasions within three days’ time serve to enlighten Egyptians on how far he will go to prove his commitment to the people. After addressing citizens for the first time as president, Al-Sisi bicycled through the Heliopolis section of Cairo. Sporting white sneakers, tennis shirt and no helmet, Al-Sisi led a pack of more than three thousand students (military and police academy) through the city’s neighborhoods. Soft-spoken and even-toned, more priestly than charismatic, Al-Sisi thanked all participants for accompanying him.

The spectacle of a marathon-style bike ride — where the president was open and vulnerable — only endeared him more to his admirers. The oddity and simplicity of the event was anything but gimmicky. His genuineness, the closeness, his courage and oneness with the people projected a plain and genuinely humble man. He was believable when he said, “I am one like you. I am not above you. Any identity that tries to damage this country I will not let come close to you to harm you. I will never allow that to happen.”



That's very different from the Egyptian's people's relationship with any of their modern rulers, where iron-clad security and distancing has always been the rule, especially since the Muslim Brotherhood had Anwar Sadat assassinated.

And there are even signs that al-Sisi may be working towards liberating and utilizing the half of Egypt's population that has been religiously and culturally repressed..its women:

Two days before biking through city streets, Al-Sisi visited the hospital bed of a rape victim. The president personally apologized for her tragedy and handed her a bouquet of red roses. What does Al-Sisi’s visit mean in a country where rape is seen as a woman’s fault and where lax laws or punitive laws substantiate this cultural understanding? President Al-Sisi indicates that Egypt’s epidemic of sexual assaults on women in the protest squares and elsewhere is unacceptable and laws must change to act as deterrent to this crime. According to reports, Al-Sisi attended the victim’s bedside and expressed to the woman and her mother who had been forced to watch her daughter’s gang-rape and now stood by her side, “I am personally apologizing to you for what happened, and I apologize to all Egyptian women. They [the government, the police and the courts] will do everything to prevent such things from happening again.”

The article doesn't mention it, but the women in question were Coptic Christians. Which may be another milestone.

Will Al-Sisi totally change Egypt? No. That would be too large a task for any one man and a lot of the problems are culturally rooted. But he could become a figure for Egyptians to rally around to do quite a bit of the heavy lifting themselves.

Here's one recommendation, if al-Sissi and the Egyptians have the courage. The Egyptian Army is already working with the IDF to combat Islamist terrorism in Sinai and to keep Hamas from getting heavy weapons. Discarding Egypt's historical anti-Semitism and reaching out to Israel, a nation far advanced in irrigation, technology, desalination, healthcare and agriculture would make life a lot better for the Egyptian people and change Egypt almost beyond recognition.

For real help in solving the problems Egypt faces, a solution could be waiting just across the border.

Egypt Bans Hamas As A Terrorist Group

An Egyptian court has outlawed Muslim Brotherhood franchise Hamas as a terrorist group, closed its offices in Egypt and banned any Hamas activity in the country.

Like the Muslim Brotherhood, which Egypt has also banned, this stems from the ongoing treason trial of Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's deposed leader as well as Hamas activities in the Gaza Strip, where Egypt is accusing Hamas of supporting the al Qaeda-linked Islamists who have targeted Egyptian troops and tourists in Sinai.

One count accuses Hamas of helping Morsi in his escape from prison in 2011 and the other case accuses Morsi and other Brotherhood members of leaking state secrets to Hamas.

The court ruling is pretty much just the icing on the cake, since Egypt has already cracked down on the tunnels used for smuggling weapons, prostitutes, drugs and other items in and out of Gaza. And there's also the added benefit to Egypt of being able to tax consumer goods being imported in.

The Egyptian news site Al Ahram is reporting that the ban is 'temporary' pending the outcome of the court cases, but Morsi is pretty much a sure thing to be convicted and I'd be surprised if the ban didn't turn out to be permanent. Al-Sissi and the current government have made no secret about how much they despise Hamas and want them out of control of Gaza.

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri characterized the ruling as targeting the Palestinian cause.

“The decision harms the image of Egypt and its role towards the Palestinian cause. It reflects a form of standing against Palestinian resistance,” Abu Zuhri said. Apparently the Egyptians prefer Fatah as their designated Palestinian terrorist group.

Deputy Political Bureau Chief of Hamas Musa Abu Marzouk, who lives in Cairo can be expected to flee to avoid arrest, most likely to Gaza.He's the second-in-command to Hamas Politbureau chief Khalid Mesh'aal, so he's a very big fish indeed.

 

Marzouk, who specializes in money laundering is also on the U.S. Treasury Department’s list of “Specially Designated Nationals” with whom financial transactions are prohibited and is wanted in connection with a number of felonies, but oddly enough, the Obama Administration has never seen fit to ask for his extradition.

Perhaps that's not so odd.

Pictures: Snowstorms In Israel, Egypt And Saudi Arabia !

 



Israel...

 

Saudi Arabia...




 

And Egypt! This is the first time Cairo has had snow in over a century.

(h/t Carl)

Egypt Outlaws The Muslim Brotherhood

An Egyptian court has issued orders banning the Muslim Brotherhood as well as "any institution branching out of it or ... receiving financial support from it" and ordered the confiscation of all of its "assets, funds and buildings".

This is a huge blow to Egypt's Islamist fascists, because The Brotherhood depends on social welfare organizations that it funds to build up grassroots political support. Even during the time the Brotherhood was officially banned, the Mubarak regime allowed a number of these organizations to continue operating. My guess is that the interim government plans to get rid of the Brotherhood once and for all, to the extent that's possible.

Oddly enough, the verdict not as a diktat from the al-Sissi interim government but from a lawsuit raised by lawyers from the leftist party Tagammu party, accusing the Brotherhood of being a "terrorist" and "exploiting religion in political slogans."

Still to come is the trial of Morsi, al-Badie and other Brotherhood figures. One fact that has emerged recently is that among other things, deposed Brotherhood President Morsi is supposed to have put out a contract on General Al-Sissi prior to Morsi's ouster and arrest.

Egypt Captures Muslim Brotherhood's Leader As The Crackdown Continues

The Egyptian government bagged a major Brotherhood prize today,  their 70-year-old supreme leader Mohammed Badie.

The old fascist was found hiding in an apartment in the Nasr City district of Cairo, near the Islamist Rabaa al-Adawiya Mosque not to far from the two Brotherhood strongholds the army and police cleared out after repeated attempts to evacuate them peacefully.

Badie, like most Islamist leaders made sure he wasn't going to be 'martyred' along with the other dupes and arranged a safe haven, but was trapped behind the police and army lines and eventually was smoked out.

As I mentioned, the Egyptian army is using similar tactics to ones the French used to defeat an insurgency in Algiers in 1954 - sectioning off various sectors in Egypt cities to keep the Brotherhood from operating effectively, closing down notorious Brotherhood mosques, arresting known Brotherhood figures and blocking off and establishing control and policing strategic areas piece by piece while eradicating the Brotherhood's facilities and membership.

It's working even better for the Egyptians than it did for the French because the Egyptian army has the support of most of the populace.

The Brotherhood was always going to be crushed if they took on the army. They could probably have negotiated something in the early days with al-Sissi and the army thta would have given them a voice in government, but they chose to inaugurate violence in the hopes of bringing President Obama and the west in to rescue them as he did the Islamists in Libya. After trying to threaten al-Sissi and failing utterly (and even worse for someone with the president's colossal ego, being ignored)it appears, at least so far, that the president has chosen to limit his response to cutting off aid to Egypt. That's a pretty small deal, in the face of the billions in support pledged to al-Sissi from the Saudis and the GCE countries, and new arms can probably be had if needed from the Russians and Chinese. All the president has done with his hissy fit is to deal us out.

The Brotherhood itself will continue to foment terrorism, especially against Christians, but with their top leadership in jail and their movement increasingly unpopular, thye look like they've lost this gamble and lost badly.

The Egyptian government will likely ban the movement, their little franchise is Gaza is under lock and key by the army and Morsi, Badie and the rest are facing trials for treason. They've all been charged with collaboration with Hamas, and one item that may very well come out is President Obama's secret $8 billion deal between the Obama administration and the Muslim Brotherhood to have Egypt annex a huge chunk of Sinai to Hamas as part of Palestinian territory. Khairat el Shater (number 2 of the Brotherhood), Morsi and Mohammed Badie, the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood reportedly signed on to the deal and are now all in custody, which could account for President Obama's frantic attempts to get them freed.

A sitting president of the United States paying $8 billion in taxpayer funds to give more land to Hamasistan, a recognized terrorist organization according to U.S. law would definitely be problematic for this president.

The Brotherhood in Egypt is not likely to become completely extinct, but they're going to be on life support for some time..unless President Obama brings in the American military. I don't think he's quite that stupid, but then again this president has never failed to surprise me any time I give him credit for elementary common sense.

Obama Secretly Suspends Military Aid To Egypt

In the latest vestige of his tantrum over the deposing of his Muslim Brotherhood friends, President Obama has decided to secretly suspend U.S. military aid to Egypt.

The leak came from Democrat Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont who was once actually kicked off of the Senate foreign Relations committee when he was caught leaking classified intel, but who somehow still remains a U.S. senator.

According to David Carle, a spokesman for Leahy, President Obama still lacks the stones to officially label Morsi's ouster a coup, but is cutting off Egypt's aid anyway.

“After sequestration withholding, approximately $585 million remains unobligated. So, that is the amount that is unobligated,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Monday. “But it would be inaccurate to say that a policy decision has been made with respect to the remaining assistance funding.”

But two administration officials told The Daily Beast that administration lawyers decided it was best to observe the law restricting military aid on a temporary basis, as if there had been a coup designation, while at the same time deciding that the law did not require a public announcement on whether a coup took place.

“The decision was we’re going to avoid saying it was a coup, but to stay on the safe side of the law, we are going to act as if the designation has been made for now,” said one administration official. “By not announcing the decision, it gives the administration the flexibility to reverse it.”

Several parts of the aid are now temporarily on hold, including the disbursement of the $585 million of $1.3 billion in fiscal 2013 foreign military financing still not delivered to the Egyptian military, the delivery of Apache helicopters that the Egyptian government has already paid for, and the depositing of economic support funds for programs that would directly benefit the Egyptian government, despite official administration denials, the administration officials said.


In other words, they had to scramble for some kind of explanation once Senator Leahy let the cat out of the bag.

Just another example of President Obama ignoring congress when he wanted to send his Muslim Brotherhood buddies military aid and ignoring congress again once the Brotherhood was out of the picture.

In reality, this is a ridiculous decision that will pretty much end any influence we have in the region. Egypt will have no problem obtaining Russian armaments, as I pointed out earlier.

Which leads to a question. How many huge screw ups, scandals and serious errors in judgement is a president allowed? Does he get extra leeway because of a subservient press or party affiliation? Or do the American people just get to live with the consequences?

Egypt: Christian Schools, Churches Looted By Islamists, Nuns Abused As 'POWs'

While the Muslim Brotherhood fascists haven't performed so well against the Egyptian Army, they've done somewhat better when it comes to assaulting Egypt's Christians. Over 47 churches and monasteries have been burned and looted by the Islamists since Morsi was deposed, along with dozens of homes and businesses owned by Christians. The latest tactic of the Islamists is to mark the targets with red paint graffiti beforehand, so the mobs know where to go.

Pictured above is the Coptic Saint Virgin Mary Church in Al Nazla, which had just been rebuilt after 13 years of construction in a country where the government strictly curtails building permits for churches, in accordance with sharia law.

“First they stole the valuable things, and then they torched the place,” says Sami Awad, a church member who lives across the narrow dirt alley from the church. “Whatever they couldn't carry, they burned.”

The attackers left graffiti on the ruins of the church reading “The religion of God is Islam.”

The UK's Daily Mail reported on what happened to the latest victim in the Brotherhood's war against Christians, the Franciscan School in Cairo.

Sister Manal, the principal told the Daily Mail how she watched for six hours as a mob looted the building, knocked the cross off the gate and replaced it with the black banner of jihad.

The classrooms were then burned to the ground and the nuns, along with several Christian women who worked at the school were taken away to be paraded through the streets as 'prisoners of war' by the Brotherhood.

‘We are nuns. We rely on God and the angels to protect us,’ Sister Manal said. ‘At the end, they paraded us like prisoners of war and hurled abuse at us as they led us from one alley to another without telling us where they were taking us.’

The frightened women were groped, hit and insulted by the Islamist mob.

‘I am terrified and unable to focus,’ said Boulos Fahmy, the pastor of a Catholic church a short distance away from Manal’s school. ‘I am expecting an attack on my church any time now.’

And Bishop Ibram, head of the local Coptic church, said he had instructed Christians and clerics not to resist the mobs of Islamists to try and avoid any loss of life.

‘The looters were so diligent that they came back to one of the five churches they had already ransacked to see if they could get more,’ he said.

‘They were loading our chairs and our benches on trucks and when they had no space for more, they just destroyed them.’

In contrast to the Brotherhood regime that was recently ousted, the current Egyptian regime has said that attacks on Egypt's Christians will not be tolerated and has promised government aid in rebuilding the burned churches and religious facilities.

President Obama has made a huge point  of being a professed Christian. Have you ever heard him say a word about this? Has he ever once criticized the Muslim Brotherhood for attacking Christians and burning churches?

More Egypt - And The Media Catches Up To Joshuapundit Once Again

 
Yesterday, members of Joshua's Army got to read the real inside story on Egypt the media wasn't telling you. You read about how this was being another front in the civil war raging within Islam, about how what was going on in Egypt affected Syria, and about how the Saudis and GCE countries were backing Egypt and al-Sissi to the hilt. You also read about how al-Sissi ignored President Obama's phone calls, how the Brotherhood is planning to try and dry Obama into Egypt on their side and about how this president's clueless and arrogant policies have cost America its influence and credibility in the Middle East.

The legacy media hasn't quite caught up yet, but Drudge has some of this on the front page today.

So let's continue on with an update.

Today is Friday, the usual day for what I call an Islamo-seethe. Islam has no Sabbath, no proscribed day of rest as Christianity and Judaism do, but Friday is the day when Muslims hit the mosques and imams gin the crowd up with sermons. Violence follows much of the time.

Today in Egypt, the imams did their work as the Brotherhood called for a 'Day of Rage' and there was a new outbreak of clashes. Again, they have no hopes of defeating the army, but their plan is to create enough terrorism, 'bleeders' and photo-ops to bring intervention from Obama.

The Brotherhood ignored the Egyptian government's call to end the violence, and at least
another 75 people have died. Just like the previous death tolls, the media is giving the impression that these are all 'protestors' when the total includes police, army personnel, people seen as government supporters and Coptic Christians, whose homes and churches are being targeted by the Islamists.

There have been over 2o policemen murdered by the Brotherhood (who are definitely armed, some of them with Khaddaffi's weaponry from Libya) in the past 24 hours in various clashes throughout Egypt's cities.

In Helwan, the Brotherhood attacked a church and burned it to the ground, with some Christians still trapped inside it according to my sources.

The Brotherhood incited mobs to attack the Azbakiyah police station in Ramses Square in Cairo, a strong-point where they knew there would be a number of casualties. The police set up sniper posts inside the building and killed a number of the rioters. The army also deployed troops to control the 5th October bridge to take out anyone trying to cross the river towards Ramses Square to attack the police station, and people are jumping off the bridge to escape the gunfire.



(via twitter)

Nile TV had clips showing Brotherhood 'soldiers firing from the crowd at the army. At least one army officer was killed by gunfire at a checkpoint in Cairo.

Al Sissi and the army have a definite plan to essentially eradicate the Brotherhood as a political force, although they're unlikely to destroy it completely.

What the army will do in Cairo and other cities is to section off various sectors to keep the Brotherhood from operating effectively and take advantage of the Army's support from most Egyptians. It will involve closing down notorious Brotherhood mosques, arresting known Brotherhood figures and blocking off and establishing control and policing strategic areas piece by piece while eradicating the Brotherhood.

This, by the way, is how the French defeated a similar insurgency in Algiers in 1954. And unlike the French, the Egyptians are likely to be quite mindful of the importance of maintaining public support. As an example of how this works in real life, the Army has already told Egypt's Copts that it will rebuild the churches destroyed by the Brotherhood.

The Egyptian army and al-Sissi prepared for this by appointed 19 generals as provisional governors, making them responsible for their individual sectors of the country. At the same time, the Egyptian military is continuing to attack Islamist insurgents in Sinai and is keeping Hamas, the Brotherhood franchise in Gaza in total lockdown.

As this strategy progresses, al-Sisi will probably outlaw the Brotherhood and could very well set a date for new elections which the Brotherhood will not be allowed to run candidates in.

The only hope the Brotherhood has at this point is if President Obama decides to try top pull off another Libya to save his Muslim Brotherhood friends.

In another interesting sign of how little influence we have in the Middle East thanks to President Obama and his team's policies, The Chinese and the Russians intervened to quash UN Security actions proposed by the Islamist government of Turkey.This means that the Egyptians, as well as the Saudis will owe them a favor.You are going to see that play out in interesting ways in the future...to America's detriment.

And speaking of which, the Saudi King Abdullah called for total backing of the Egyptian military against the Brotherhood in a statement over state run Al-Ekhbariya TV today.

According to one of my notorious Lil' Birdies, the Saudis, the UAE and the other GCE countries have pledged over $40 billion to al-Sissi and the Egyptian government.That $1.5 billion in aid Obama tried unsuccessfully to hold over al-Sissi's head is meaningless.

In the normal course of events, would anyone even trust this president to manage a McDonald's properly?

What The Media Won't Tell You About What's Really Going On In Egypt

I wrote yesterday that after doing a great deal to destabilize Egypt, President Obama appeared to finally be doing something right for a change...keeping his mouth shut (at least publicly)and concentrating on his golf game.

I should have known better.

Our Dear Leader took some time off from the links to run his mouth, condemning Egypt's declaring a state of emergency, saying what he termed 'traditional cooperation' could not continue, and announcing the cancellation of planned joint exercises between our military and Egypt's.

He also got busy behind the scenes to protect his Muslim Brotherhood pals. President Obama reportedly put in a direct call to Egypt's Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah El-Sissi, the military leader behind the ousting of Mahmoud Morsi and the Brotherhood.

He undoubtedly planned to threaten him again with losing the $1.5 billion in aid we give Egypt and to demand again that he free Morsi and the other Brotherhood leaders now in custody. Perhaps our Islamist friendly president is worried that a trial of Morsi and the Brotherhood's Number 2 Khairat el Shater is likely to result in this embarrassing item coming to light.

Al-Sissi refused to take the call.Instead, the president was told politely that the right person for him to speak to was Egypt’s interim president Adly Mansour. Obama recognized the insult when he heard it and decided not to bother talking to Mansour.

There's a great deal of verbiage in the legacy media calling al-Sissi a 'Nasser-type figure'. Nothing could be further from the truth. Instead of being a quasi-Marxist, loud mouth Arab fantasist like the Rais, al-Sissi is a quasi-Islamist, pragmatic, career military general who was smart enough to attend war colleges in both the UK and America and has relationships with army figures in both countries.

Having seen what President Obama is like and whom Obama's in bed with, al-Sissi simply doesn't trust him. Nor does he perceive any need to.

What's going on in Egypt is not some kind of Tien-an-min Square but the creation of another front in Islam's civil war, and it has a direct link to what's going on right now in Syria.

The Saudis, the Emirates and the other GCE countries wrote off our president a long time ago as a clueless, arrogant and deceptive loser. They realize he's incapable of dealing with the threat from Shi'ite Iran, Hezbollah and the Muslim Brotherhood, which in Egypt particularly had been cozying up to the Ayatollahs. In spite of their theological differences, the Brotherhood and the Iranians agree on the hatred of the west and the Islamist concept of theocracy, the vilayat e fiqh.

In Syria, the faceoff is the proxy war between Shi'ite/Alawite Basher Assad and the Sunni rebels, whom the Saudis and Qatar have been bankrolling and arming. And in Syria, the Saudis, led now guided by Prince Bandar, the new chief of Saudi Intelligence, have a double problem. They want very much to oust Assad, gain control of Syria and keep the Iranians out, but they also have justified concerns that the al-Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood Sunni jihadis in Syria might eventually become a problem for them, which is exactly what happened with bin-Laden after the Saudi bankrolling of the muhadajeen in the 1980's Afghan war.

So Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been fighting for influence among Syria’s Sunni rebels, and they see destroying the Brotherhood in Egypt as a way of helping those efforts along in Syria, as well as bringing Egypt, a large Sunni country with a decent military into the war on their side.

The Obama Administration's fecklessness and Morsi's increasingly warm relations with Iran were what broke the devil's bargain between the Saudis and the Brotherhood.

That's what was behind the new Emir of Qatar stripping Sheik Qaradawi, the Brotherhood's spiritual leader of his citizenship, closing down all Brotherhood offices and expelling Qaradawi and Hamas leader Khalid Mesha'al from the country right after Morsi and the Brotherhood were deposed in Egypt.

The Saudis and GCE countries are backing al-Sissi and the new Egyptian government with billions in aid. According to one of my sources, al-Sissi was in contact with the Saudis and got assurances they would back him before overthrowing Morsi. And now that the Brotherhood has elected to inaugurate a civil war, look for that aid to continue.

There was and is never going to be a democracy in Egypt, in terms we understand it. The country's institutions simply aren't geared that way, as in most Muslim countries. The Brotherhood is a fascist organization who was never going to share power, so the war is simply going to be a zero sum game, because that's what they've decided they want. They will be crushed now that they decided to take on the army, a highly beneficial state of affairs not only for Egypt but for the West. But because life is cheap to them, look for the Brotherhood to continue to provoke confrontations in order to try and get Obama to do a Libya on their behalf.

Based on the nonsense being spouted by the legacy media and Islamist appeasers like our president, the UN and various EU functionaries, they have had some success, but I'd be very surprised if the Brotherhood ended up with anything more concrete than words. Bleeders,terrorism, attacks on Egypt's Christian Copts and photo-ops are about all they have left and that isn't going to be enough to defeat the Egyptian Army, or make a dent in its popular support with the Egyptian people.

For that matter, if Obama keeps threatening al-Sissi, look for the Egyptian military to find a new best friend in the Kremlin.

Russia's Putin will sell them arms in a heartbeat.As a matter of fact, on July 31, Prince Bandar the head of Saudi Intelligence arrived in Moscow for a conference with Vladimir Putin for a conversation that lasted four hours. Rest assured that Bander had talked to al-Sissi and discussed that with the Russians.

Or to put it another way, thanks to President Obama's clueless antics (with an assist from certain elements of the GOP establishment) and his fervid embrace of the Muslim Brotherhood, our influence in the Middle East is pretty much non-existent right now.

Bumped Up: Viral Egyptian Video Reveals How Deeply Obama Is Hated There

This video, by popular Egyptian recording artist Sama Elmasry titled “You Obama, Your Father, Mother,” is going viral in Egypt and getting heavy airplay all over the Middle East.

Catchy little tune...And I'm bumping it up as a preview of my upcoming piece on what's really going on in Egypt, what the legacy media isn't telling you. You don't play a part in fomenting violence and destabilizing a country without some blowback.

It cusses out the president, his mother and his father out for his enabling of the Muslim Brotherhood, tells him exactly what to do with his threats to cut off aid and for good measure accuses him of being a Jew towards the end.

In Egypt, where anti-semitism is a popular sport, there's no worse thing an Egyptian can call you.

Oh, by the way, 'the old bitch' referred to in the video is Ambassador Anne Patterson, also a notable Brotherhood appeaser and supporter.

At the same time, the Brotherhood and their fellow Islamists are angry at Obama for not getting Morsi and his pals freed from custody and for not helping the al-Qaeda and Brotherhood led rebels in Syria.

Yes, once again our absolute genius of a president and his superb foreign policy team have succeeded in antagonizing both sides of a conflict! Epic Obamafail.

UPDATE: Want to know  what the media won't tell you about what's really going on n Egypt? Click here

150 Dead As Egyptian Army Cracks Down On Muslim Brotherhood:The Real Story

 

At least 150 people have been killed as Egyptian police, backed up by the army cleared out two encampments of Muslim Brotherhood supporters who refused to leave when they were ordered to do so. There have been numerous arrests.

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said the raids were carried out as “a last resort” after the government efforts to mediate a safe exit for the inhabitants of the camps failed

“After six long weeks of illegal, unauthorized sit-ins,” and after claiming there was evidence of torture in the encampments, Egypt’s prosecutor general authorized security forces to break up the camps, Badr Abdelatty, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, said in a statement.

The government has declared a month long state of emergency.

The evidence of torture may or may not be credible, but neither is the swill you're reading in the media about 'peaceful protesters' and 'unarmed civilians' being attacked.Some of them undoubtedly were, but the purpose of the camps was not peaceful protest.


These encampments were Muslim Brotherhood strongholds that were being used to arm, train and recruit Brotherhood supporters. Arms as usual  were plentiful, some of them purchased from Khaddaffi's Libyan stocks.



They had become, essentially, almost a state within a state, large enclaves under the Brotherhood's control.near the Islamist Rabaa al-Adawiya Mosque in Cairo’s Nasr City District that has served as the headquarters of the Brotherhood's campaign.

After a prolonged attempt to  get the encampments to disband peacefully and two days of warnings by the government that the police were going to remove them, the government moved in. It's hard to see how they could have done anything else.You won't read this in the legacy media, but 10 policemen were shot and at least two were killed in removing the Muslim Brotherhood camps.

As I predicted earlier, the Islamists had two choices. The first one was to try to attempt a peaceful solution with Egypt's government that would have left them marginalized but at least viable. The second was to try and ignite a civil war by  fighting the Army. They chose the second option, and they will be crushed, unless they manage to put on enough of a show to bring an outsider like the United States into the fray.

What happened today was part of that strategy, The Brotherhood set up a provocation no government could ignore, with the idea of fomenting violence and a suitable number of casualties for the cameras.

Western media, which has consistently whitewashed who the Brotherhood is and what they stand for cheerfully cooperated, presented a script of a vicious police state 'massacring  peaceful protesters.'

These same reporters are ignoring a whole series of summary executions being carried out by Hamas, the Brotherhood's  branch in Gaza.

So far, the strategy of attempting to bring in an outsider isn't working. While I don't doubt that President Obama has been quite vocal privately at seeing his Islamist friends thrown out of power, besides a pro forma statement condemning the violence there's been no indication that the president has another Libya planned.

After doing a great deal to destabilize Egypt, President Obama appears to finally be doing somthing right for a change. He's keeping his mouth shut ( at least publicly)  and concentrating on his golf game.

Meanwhile, the Brotherhood is doing what good Islamists do...they're taking it out on the kuffars.

Churches were set on fire in the town of Sohag and the village of Delga in Minya, south of Cairo, while other churches in the Abou Helal district of Minya and in the city of Suez were also attacked, while mobs in Cairo vandalized homes,businesses and shops known to belong to Copts.

These are not good people.

Report: Obama To Meet With Muslim Brotherhood Officials At The White House

A report from the Egypt Independent has it that President Obama has scheduled a meeting at the White House with Muslim Brotherhood officials to discuss events in Egypt. Also attending the meeting would be Turkish diplomats from that country's Islamist government.

The Brotherhood officials and the Turkish diplomats are expected to push hard for deposed Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi's reinstatement as well as the Brotherhood's return to power.

The Egypt Independent claims to have heard from sources within the Brotherhood that Brotherhood member and billionaire Hassen Malek was the intermediary who contacted the White House to request the meeting

 

Malek is definitely a person of interest. Born into a Muslim Brotherhood family and named after MB founder Hassan al-Banna, Malek joined the organization at a young age and is particularly close to the man who was the real power in Egypt during Morsi's tenure, Brotherhood supreme guide Khairat al-Shater, whom he befriended when they were students at Alexandria's university.

Malek and al-Shater co-founded one of Egypt’s first software companies, Salsabil, which had the Egyptian military as one of its clients and made a huge amount of money, but they were later accused of money laundering and funding a terrorist organization, which was what the Brotherhood was considered during Mubarak's regime. Both were released after a year in jail without being charged.

Malek continued to amass a fortune through his software endeavors and through a series of business deals with companies like the Turkish furniture manufacturer Istikbal. He was actually a part of the Morsi regime, serving as the leader of Morsi's business development council.

Another connection is that he is reputed to be close to none other than former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin's parents, her late father Syed Zainul Abedin, head of the Brotherhood front the Muslim World League and Abedin's mother Saleha Abedin, a prominent and long standing member of the Brotherhood's International Women's Organization (IWO)

There's no question that Malek has the clout to arrange a meeting with President Obama. And Malek can definitely afford the president's going rate for a face to face, although given President Obama's sympathy and support for the Brotherhood, Malek might get a discount or have the fee waived altogether.

Do I credit this as accurate? Ordinarily, I'd tread cautiously here, especially as it's Egyptian media and based on unnamed sources. But given who President Obama is, I'd be leaning towards this being accurate. Especially since the Administration's attempt to intimidate the current Egyptian government fell flat on its face.

There may just be a need to meet, greet and coordinate some strategy.

Clueless As Usual - McCain And Lindsay Graham Meet With Muslim Brotherhood In Egypt

The Daily Beast has what it says is an exclusive on Senators McCain and Graham holding forth upon their return from Egypt, where they met with the members of the new Egyptian interim government including Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi and military leader Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi,who ousted Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Morsi from power.

And of course, with whom McCain and Graham refer to as 'senior-level Muslim Brotherhood people'.

According to the pair, the 'high level people' requested they be anonymous,but are demanding that Morsi and the other Brotherhood leaders be released and not tried, and that Morsi and the Islamists be returned to power.

“We told [the Muslim Brother leaders] that in our view, the best way to resolve this issue was to renounce and condemn violence, that they should be willing to negotiate if some of the brotherhood were released from prison,” McCain said. “We were not negotiating, we were just saying what we thought had to be done to get back to the negotiating table.”

“The situation is very difficult here,” he said. “The two sides are polarized, and the Morsi supporters are still demonstrating, and the military and the new government are keeping a lot of the Muslim Brotherhood leadership in jail without communication in unknown places. It’s not a good situation, and we’ve recommended that some of them be released as a goodwill gesture. The only way this will get resolved is if both sides are willing to make some concessions.”

And the threat the two senators are holding over al-Sissi to try and force him to negotiate? Officially calling what happened in Egypt a coup and using it to withhold the $1.5 billion in military aid we give them.

“We told [General al-Sisi] exactly how a lot of members of Congress felt and we want to see negotiations and some release of political prisoners,” he said. “He did not say whether he would or he wouldn’t.”

President Obama tried the same threats and was told to go pound sand. And with the GCE countries including the Saudis stepping in over $13 billion in aid Egypt needs to keep going during the transition, I'm surprised al-Sissi even wasted time listening to these buffoons.

This is the same not-so-dynamic duo whom were perfectly willing to send Morsi and the Islamists F-16s and ignore the Brotherhood's repression and political prisoners they were holding.

Even our State Department and the notoriously clueless John Kerry, our Secretary of State have avoided threatening the Egyptians at this point, trying to hold on to whatever little influence we have with them after President Obama's epic fail in trying to save the Muslim Brotherhood government he helped install in power.

The two senators claim they weren't sent by the president, but they arrived after a two hour special meeting with Obama and - just by coincidence, y'know - at a time when our Deputy Secretary of State William Burns is trying fruitlessly to bust the Islamists out of jail and back into power. They even met with Burns, in an obvious attempt to play good cop/bad cop with al-Sissi that failed miserably.

The Brotherhood in Egypt are attempting to wage guerrilla war in Egypt against the army with riots and sabotage, and as I predicted they're being crushed, in spite of Obama's efforts to salvage them.

Let's parse what's really going on here.The Morsi regime managed to win an election and gain power thanks to President Obama's assistance, but became vastly unpopular once the Egyptians realized what Brotherhood rule actually meant. They were becoming increasingly friendly with our enemies in Iran, were destroying even the mild liberties associated with Egypt's former constitution, and were openly aiding and abetting terrorists in the person of Hamas, the Brotherhood franchise in Gaza.

They are a genocidal and ruthless organization who stand against everything America ought to stand for, and their tactics differ from those of al-Qaeda only when it comes to timing and application. Both groups take their inspiration from al-Banna and Qutb, and both favor an Islamic caliphate. That was something our president and his allies were willing to help them put together in Libya, Egypt, Syria and the Arab-occupied parts of Palestine in the mistaken idea these people can be 'worked with', especially if the Obama Administration continues its work of destroying our current alliance with Israel.

Our two Senators are obviously part of this group, and you might recall McCain's outspoken championing of Hillary's Muslim Brotherhood connected aide Huma Abedin, these senators voting to confirm Chuck Hagel and Samantha Power to sensitive national security posts and McCain's push to arm the al-Qaeda and Brotherhood rebels in Syria, among other things.

The Egyptian military were the spear point of a reaction against that, a part of the real issue in the Middle East these days, the proxy war between the Sunnis led by Saudi Arabia and the Shi'ite bloc led by Iran that has come to a head in Syria.

The Brotherhood and Hamas were also ousted from Qatar, one of their major financial supporters as a new Emir took over, yet another sign that the devil's bargain between the Brotherhood and Arab autocracies like the Saudis may be coming to an end.

As for McCain and Graham, the less said about them the better. They long ago passed the point of farce and are now are an actual problem, one I hope the people of Arizona and South Carolina resolve at the next opportunity to boot them out.

UK Woman Rescues Kidnapped Daughter From Egypt In A Daring Mission

As many women who marry Muslim men have discovered, divorce by the husband is ridiculously easy (even a text message saying 'I divorce thee' sent three times is acceptable)and any children that come from the marriage are considered the property of the father according to sharia with a divorced mother having no parental rights whatsoever.

Because of this, the kidnapping of young children by their fathers who take them to Muslim countries is quite common, and many mothers have experienced the horror losing all contact with their children when their husbands divorce them after taking the children on a trip to 'visit their family back home.'

Many times, the husbands don't even bother with a divorce, simply abandoning the wife and taking the children back to their home countries in the Muslim world.

One of these women was Alex Abou-El-Ella, a 29-year-old British woman who had her one-year-old daughter Mona kidnapped by her Egyptian father.

Mrs. Abou-El-Ella, who was born in Poland but came to Britain as a teenager married her husband Mustafa in England, where the met. One day her husband simply took the baby to the airport and flew to Egypt without telling his wife, and that was the last she saw of her daughter for two long years.

The British government has never been particularly helpful in cases like this, and this was no exception.

But Alex Abou-El-Ella decided she wasn't going to give up her child. With the help of British author Donya Al-Nahi, who is famous in Britain for her efforts in helping a string of women rescue children snatched by Arab fathers, she hatched a daring plot to get her child back.

First, the two women defied warnings from the British foreign office not to travel to Egypt. Once in the country, they were able to track down her daughter Mona's whereabouts, and Alex Abou-El-Ella disguised herself in full head-to-toe Islamic dress and hid her face behind a veil in order to get close to her.

They then hired a local driver and staked out the area until until Mona appeared with an aunt just before 9 AM...and the Daily Mail relates what happened next:

'I was walking behind them, faster and faster, and saw Mona's hand a few metres away from me,' she said. 'So I grabbed her, pulled her into my arms and the lady looked at my face - but all she could see were my eyes.'

Grabbing her daughter, she turned and fled to the waiting car and drove off with th echild and Al-Nahi. The confused toddler cried out for help from the woman she knew as mummy, to Abou-El-Ella's dismay.

"I felt shocked and upset to hear those words coming out of her mouth about another woman," she said. "But after half an hour she looked up at me and said, "Are you my mum?"'

The next step was getting Mona out of the country, so Alex resorted to that time tested Arab lubricant - baksheesh. She used the Polish passport belonging to her older daughter to hide Mona's Egyptian surname, bribed an Egyptian official to allow her to board a London-bound flight..and then used Mona's real British passport to get her into the UK legally when they landed at Heathrow.

Mother and daughter are now reunited and doing just fine.

Alex Abou-El-Ella says she has informed Mona's father that she has their child. She saved Mona from being deprived of her mother without any due process, from life under sharia and almost certainly from the forced clitorectomies that over 90% of Egyptian girls are forced to undergo as young, prepubescent children.

She is one courageous woman, but if I were her I'd definitely move and maintain a low profile to stop her daughter from being kidnapped again.

This sort of story - many times without the happy ending - has been repeated with increasing frequency since immigration from Muslim countries has increased in the West. Women whom marry these men need to consider carefully exactly what they might be getting into.

Egyptian Video Cursing Obama For Backing The Muslim Brotherhood Goes Viral

This video, by Egyptian recording artist Sama Elmasry titled “You Obama, Your Father, Mother,” is getting heavy airplay all over the Middle East, especially in Egypt.

Catchy little tune...

It cusses the president, his mother and his father out for his enabling of the Muslim Brotherhood, tells him exactly what to do with his threats to cut off aid and for good measure accuses him of being a Jew towards the end.

In Egypt, where anti-semitism is a popular sport, there's no worse thing an Egyptian can call you.

Oh, by the way, 'the old bitch' referred to in the video is Ambassador Anne Patterson, also a notable Brotherhood appeaser and supporter.

At the same time, the Brotherhood and their fellow Islamists are angry at Obama for not getting Morsi and his pals freed from custody and for not helping the al-Qaeda and Brotherhood led rebels in Syria.

Yes, once again our absolute genius of a president and his superb foreign policy team have succeeded in antagonizing both sides of a conflict!

 

Egypt: Crackdown On The Muslim Brotherhood Continues

The new Egyptian government continues to take a hard line with the Muslim Brotherhood, which might very well be the only way possible to settle the security situation in the country.

As Brotherhood inspired riots continue to erupt in Egyptian cities, the Army has responded in force.Over the weekend,security forces killed at least 83 Morsi/Brotherhood supporters in clashes in Cairo, while at least one policeman was reported killed by a gunshot that came from the crowd.

The violence erupted after millions took to the streets to show their support for Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi. The mass turnout followed a call from al-Sissi for rallies to give him a mandate to deal with violence and "potential terrorism", AKA the Brotherhood and the Islamists.

Meanwhile the arrests of Brotherhood and other Islamist leaders continues.The latest ones brought into custody are Abul-Ela Madi and Essam Soltan from the Brotherhood-allied Wasat Party, who faced arrest warrants for inciting violence and were found hiding in a house in a Cairo neighborhood located near the area where the Brotherhood had been holding its 'martyrdom actions'.

Former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi is still being held incommunicado by the Egyptian government as prosecutors prepare charges against him for corruption, conspiring with Hamas and the murder of soldiers in a prison break.

House Passes Amendment To Limit US Military Involvement In Syria

And it was surprisingly bi-partisan and almost unanimous:

With little argument, the House of Representatives approved measures Wednesday that would prevent the Obama administration from spending money on U.S. military operations in Syria without consulting Congress and would forbid funding U.S. military or paramilitary operations in Egypt.

The measures, part of the House’s $598 billion defense bill, were supposed to be contentious issues exposing bipartisan rifts between interventionists who want to give Obama a free hand in dealing with the civil war in Syria and unrest in Egypt and war-weary lawmakers concerned that U.S. troops will be dragged into more military actions.

But both amendments were approved on voice votes with only scant dissent.

On Syria, lawmakers passed an amendment by Rep. Trey Radel, R-Fla., that would forbid any military action in Syria if it violates the War Powers Resolution – which requires the president to consult Congress before committing U.S. forces to battle or placing them in situations where hostilities are imminent.

This is a major slap in the face for President Obama , who was gearing up to repeat in Syria the same idiocy he put into action in Libya.

This amendment doesn't affect throwing our tax dollars away in the form of weapons for the president's al-Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood allies in Syria, but it would definitely setting up a no-fly zone or using U.S. ships to launch attacks on sites in Syria or using U.S. troops in Jordan in any way to help the rebels.

And conservative Republicans and Left-leaning progressive Dems are on the same side in this one.

“I believe without a shadow of a doubt this is one of the most insane policies that borders on madness – the United States to give funding, training and arms most likely to al Qaida in Syria doesn’t make any sense,” said Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. “This is absolute madness.”

Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., agreed, calling the situation in Syria “chaotic.”

“Distinguishing between the good rebels and the bad rebels is impossible,” Welch said on the House floor. “The notion that we can have a micromanaged approach and pick the good guys, and arm them, and not have any reasonable . . . expectation that the arms will get into bad hands I think is naive.”

A similar amendment by Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky that would prohibit the U.S. from using money authorized in the defense bill to fund military operations in Egypt or to fund individuals, groups or organizations also passed by voice vote.

It's a pity the House didn't have it's act together to do this on Libya, but perhaps they finally learned something about this president when it comes to his foreign policy ineptness.

Obama Continues Tantrum Over Egyptian Removal Of Islamists, Halts Sale Of F-16s To Egypt

 

President Obama continued his hissy fit over the ouster of Islamist Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood by halting a pending sale of F-16s to Egypt:

Pentagon spokesman George Little said the United States values its relationship with the Egyptian military and characterized the delay of the F-16s as a cautionary measure.

“We do not believe it would be in the best interest of the United States to immediately change all of our assistance to Egypt,” Little told reporters Wednesday. But “given the current situation in Egypt, we do not believe it is appropriate to move forward at this time with the delivery of ­F-16s.”

The decision was announced shortly after Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel held an hour-long conversation with Gen. Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, the Egyptian military chief, who this month deposed the country’s first freely elected president, Mohamed Morsi, with the backing of a large segment of Egyptian society. A U.S. senior defense official said the move was not intended to be construed as punitive.

“This is not a way of punishing them,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to explain policy deliberations. “It gives us more time to consult with Congress, walk them through our strategy and explain our views to them.”

I can just imagine what that conversation between Hagel and al-Sissi was like:

"General, If you want the planes, you gotta put Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood back in power."

"Pound sand, Mr. Hagel. And tell your boss to do the same."

As for 'more time to consult with Congress', for anyone in the Obama Regime to say this verges on stand up comedy material. This is the same administration that took the unheard of step of overriding congressional holds on aid to Morsi's Egypt not once,but twice.

President Obama was just fine with a hard core Islamist Muslim Brotherhood regime hostile to Israel getting all the F-16s and other military hardware from the US they wanted. A non-Muslim Brotherhood Egyptian government? Not so much.

In another instance of this president's tantrum over the events in Egypt, he has apparently used U.S. influence to torpedo badly needed International Monetary Fund(IMF) loan for Egypt that was being pushed through with President Obama's assistance.

Needless to say, this pretty much marks the end of U.S. influence with Egypt - at least while Obama is president.

At this point, the new Egyptian government is getting funding from the Saudis and the other GCE countries, as it is considered a Sunni ally in the current Sunni-Shi'ite civil war, while Morsi and the Brotherhood were just a bit too cozy with the Mullahs of Iran.

With the Brotherhood continuing to cause civil unrest in Egypt (and I wouldn't be surprised in the least if President Obama was funding it covertly)the main task of the new government is to get the security situation under control, and they've made some definite progress there. There's enough aid money right now to carry things for awhile even without U.S. help, but the Egyptian government is going to have to take some serious steps to get its house in order just to feed its population.

Stay tuned...

Arab Media: Obama's Secret $8 Billion Deal With The Muslim Brotherhood

The Obama Administration has been putting enormous pressure on the new Egyptian government to release former president Mohamed Morsi and other top Muslim Brotherhood figures. The above video sheds some light on why. There's also this translation of a story which appears in French from Poste deVeille in Canada:

There was a secret agreement between the Obama administration and the Muslim Brotherhood (not the Egyptian government) to give 40% of the Sinai and the annexation of that part of Egyptian territory to Gaza.The objective was to conclude a comprehensive peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.

This agreement was signed by Khairat el Shater (number 2 of the Brotherhood) by Morsi and the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood (FM in French). The sum of U.S. $ 8 billion was paid in exchange to the Brotherhood.

The document was seized by the army following the removal of Morsi. The army has leaked the news.

An investigation is ongoing on Morsi and El Shater. An arrest warrant was filed against the Guide to the Muslim Brotherhood and other members of his office. Brotherhood signatories to the agreement are could receive the death penalty for treason.

The Obama administration is trying to reach an agreement with el Sissi (chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces): recognition of the legitimacy of the "coup" in exchange for his silence about the secret agreement. But el Sissi would be more interested in the conviction of The Brotherhood and discrediting their organization which is Egypt's main source of danger.

The Republican members of Congress are seriously looking into the case. If proven, the process of Obama impeachment could be triggered.

I doubt that last paragraph is an accurate reading of what could happen, but a sitting president of the United States paying $8 billion in taxpayer funds to give more land to Hamasistan, a recognized terrorist organization according to U.S. law would definitely be problematic for this president.

Do I believe this to be true? I'd file it under plausible. Here's why:

• As we know by now, President Obama absolutely loves the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamists in general.His administration is honeycombed with people with extremely close ties to the Brotherhood as well as numerous sympathizers.

• I have it on good authority from a reliable source that the president completely lost it when his backroom pressure on al-Sissi failed and Morsi was removed from office. And that he was even angrier at the developments in Qatar that saw Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood thrown out of that country, formerly a huge Brotherhood supporter and haven,and subsequent Saudi and GCE steps to provide bridge financing for Egypt's new government, giving al-Sissi some independence when it came to U.S. aid to Egypt.
  
  I also know that the Obama Administration is trying its best to subvert the new Egyptian government, even to the point of inciting an Egyptian civil war

• President Obama has a history of ignoring both congress and existing U.S. law when he feels like it.There's no doubt in my mind that he would happily pay over $8 billion of our money to the Muslim Brotherhood in order to enhance Hamas, which is merely the Gaza-based Palestinian branch of the Brotherhood. There's no question either than Morsi and the Brotherhood would sign off on the deal, since they needed the money and since their loyalty is to the Brotherhood and the making of the Caliphate rather than Egypt per se. The deal would also be a step towards integrating Hamasistan with Egypt, something else Morsi and his friends were very interested in. So the deal was a win-win for both sides.

• I also know that the new Egyptian government is preparing a criminal case to try Morsi and his Ikhwan friends, including the Brotherhood's Supreme Guide Mohammed Badie.They're accused of spying, inciting the killings of protesters, and damaging the economy.

Assuming Morsi, Badie and other Brotherhood figures are charged, do I expect anything to come out about this secret deal to turn over a part of Egyptian territory to Hamas at the American Taxpayer's expense?

I doubt it. The Egyptian military is U.S. equipped, and that means they're dependent on U.S. spare parts, as well as American largess to fund the Egyptian military's various business enterprises. This is something al-Sissi would likely hold in reserve in case the Obama Administration's interference in Egypt's affairs became to egregious to ignore.

Again, I consider this plausible leaning towards probable rather than written in stone. But too many of the details fit together too well. And it says something about the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue that something like this would even be possible, let alone plausible.

U.S. Ambassador threatens Egypt's New Government,Shills For Muslim Brotherhood

 

President Obama apparently hasn't gotten over his tantrum about his Muslim Brotherhood allies being ousted from power. According to Al-Fagr, U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson ( who is almost as unpopular with the majority of non-Islamist Egyptians as President Obama is) demanded that Egyptian General Sisi release all the Muslim Brotherhood members currently under arrest:

“And when Sisi rejected this order, the American ambassador began threatening him that Egypt will turn into another Syria and live through a civil war, to which Sisi responded violently: ‘Neither you nor your country can overcome Egypt and its people.’”

The Jerusalem Post likewise has a similar story about how our State Department is screaming for the release of their pet Islamists.

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters that the U.S. government was calling on Egypt to release Morsi and the other Muslim Brotherhood figures.Speaking at her briefing, Psaki also confirmed that Ambassador Patterson had met Egypt's leadership, so Al-Faqr's account is likely substantially correct.

Patterson has also been busy trying to sow dissension within the ruling coalition. Al Nahar reports that Patterson has been inciting the Salifist Nour Party to withdraw from the coalition and from political participation and to support the Brotherhood.

 

The Egyptian Army  and the anti-Brotherhood forces are not going to knuckle under, especially now that they have funding from the Saudis and the other GCE countries. If  the Brotherhood attempts a violent clash with the army and thei rallies, the Brotherhood will be crushed. If there is a civil war President Obama and his team can pat themselves on the back and take credit helping foment  it, as well as for the deaths that occur.