US-Israel-Arab alliance in jeopardy ...

.... this, according to Eli Lake is one of the 'top intel. analysts' in Israel!
"... "Is this a democratization and modernization revolution? Or is it an Islamic/nationalistic revolution?" said Yossi Kuperwasser, director general of Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs."The Americans say this is the democratic modernization revolution; in Israel, we would want just that. Israel does not want to be the only democratic country in the Middle East," he said in an interview with The Washington Times. "The Iranians say they want to say, 'We won because those against us lost.' As if this is a zero-sum game."...

Most Arab states have no diplomatic ties to Israel, but U.S. diplomatic cables published by the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks show that Israel maintained secret high-level contact with the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain on Iran. If the governments of these countries were taken over by anti-Western Islamists, the U.S.-Israel-Arab alliance on Iran could be jeopardized....

Mr. Kuperwasser said he was closely watching events in Egypt, the most populous Arab country and the seat of the Arab League. Mr. Kuperwasser, who served as the head of research and assessment for the intelligence branch of the Israel Defense Forces before taking his current post, said he has seen no evidence that the military would manage the strategic file in Egypt.
"Once there will be elections, the newly elected president and government will probably be in charge of Egypt. What is going to be the role of the military? Nobody knows. Nobody knows. It is not clarified by the new draft of the constitution," he said. The constitution also says the Koran is a source of Egyptian law. Muslim Brotherhood leaders have said that they would seek to enforce this clause of the constitution ... there will be no change to the peace treaty, but there are signs the next government would be hostile to Israel. Egypt's new foreign minister, Nabil el-Araby, named this week to the caretaker government has said he would support trying Israeli leaders in international courts for crimes of aggression....
"There is a wide part of the population in Egypt and I think also in high ranks of the military of people that don't want to see Egypt becoming Iran," Mr. Kuperwasser said. "They don't want to see Egypt becoming a radical power,..... he did not know if this segment of the population is the majority, but he said it is a significant number of people.... At the same time Mr. Kuperwasser said Egyptians had been bombarded with textbooks, media and other materials that in essence say Jews have no legitimate right to a homeland in modern-day Israel...."

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