The Process

After many days of depression, I think its the right time for this. I call it The Process.

Bibi, Mubarak and Iran

The same Benjamin Netanyahu we know really well met the Egyptian President who knows him really well tonight. So what’s new? Nothing of course. The show is on, the same old show. Netanyahu said in Cairo that he wants to resume peace talks with Palestinians as soon as possible.
One should ask himself a very important question: why did Bibi go to see Mubarak as a prep to his meeting with Obama? People would say because Egypt is a major player in the region and it’s wise to go and see what the Egyptians are expecting from Israel now. But is that like the Bibi we know?

If there is one thing about Bibi that everyone knows, it is that he is not in for resolving the Palestinian dilemma peacefully. Yes, he will resume peace talks with the Palestinians but only to keep them going. Remember who launched the most recent pretext for not abiding by the two states solution? Bibi himself. He wants to tie ending Iran’s nuclear program with Israel’s admission of the Palestinians’ right to a de-weaponized state of their own. So if the Iranian issue is not resolved, the Palestinian one will remain open.

Now, how does that play in the interest of Bibi’s strategy? The Israeli prime minister went to Egypt to discuss three things according to Haaretz newspaper: the Palestinian issue, the Iranian nuclear program and the Hezbollah cell recently captured in Egypt. We all know of the deep rift if not animosity between the Egyptian regime and the Iranian one. Well, it has intensified after Cairo’s declaration of capturing Hezbollah’s cell. There is no doubt that Bibi is trying to capitalize on this recent issue as it serves well his ends to destitutely prolong any round of peace talks Obama might pressure him to initiate.

Bibi wants to win Cairo and the rest of the so called moderate Arab states on his side against Tehran, so that Iran becomes the one and only danger everyone in the region is preoccupied with instead of making his administration swallow the bitter cup that would shatter it to pieces, which is making peace.

This really depends on how Cairo weighs its strategic interests. Which is more important to Egypt? Pursuing its animosity with Iran or pressing the Israelis to make real peace with the Palestinians at a time when everyone says that Obama is committed to pressurize his Isreali allies.

A nice one

This a nice ad I came across on YouTube.

إهداء لمحبي الشعر الحلمنتيشي الذي يعجبني جدا. في هذا الفيديو تشاهدون قصيدة بويمة لوف يؤديها الفنان السوري ياسر العظمة.