Oooh, 174,042 maybe we will get to 174,000 in one day Arright fine! Enough.
The Obamas have released a tranche of aid, about $200 mil if I recall correctly, to the Egyptian junta. Obama is a lawyer and this sounds like a typical judge's ruling: No matter what the merits of the case you give a little to both sides. In this instance Judge Obama withheld about $2 bil of what Egypt gets annually. And the judge did not rule on the merits, i.e. didn't call it a coup or explain why it wasn't a coup. This style of ruling is also a hallmark of American diplomacy according to Henry Kissinger maybe because so many lawyers are in government. Intended to partially satisfy everyone it follows that such rulings partially dissatisfy everyone which is the intended subject of this post which began so ignominiously and which provides an abject lesson of the perils of American influence in the world, for both the Egyptian junta and the State of Israel are unhappy with Judge Obama's ruling.
America was mid-wife to Israel's birth and has been guarantor of its existence ever since, none more so than in 1973 when the aforementioned Kissinger saw that "the Third Temple is going under" and rallied President Nixon to prevent same. Which was done. And then when the Third Temple gained the initiative and surrounded the Egyptian army in Sinai Nixon and Kissinger saved Egypt in the manner that Rodney Dangerfield said Frank Sinatra once saved his life when three thugs were beating him and Sinatra stepped in and said "All right, that's enough." This was the second Egyptian-led Arab-Israeli war in six years. An Arab oil embargo resulted impinging on Americans ability to pursue their happiness in Buicks.
By 1978 all sides had had enough and President Carter rallied American influence to bring President Sadat and Prime Minister Began to Camp David in pursuit of peace and lower gasoline prices. Which was done. America used its usual peace pipe and agreement was bought with the approximately $2 bil in annual aid to Egypt aforementioned to which the Israelis objected before acquiescing and with a larger amount to the Third Temple. A peace treaty between Israel and Egypt was signed in 1979. Whereupon Sadat was assassinated (in 1981). Israel shit, afraid that peace with her principal tormentor had gone down the shitter. However Hosni Mubarak succeeded Sadat as president and the peace treaty remained in effect. The Egyptian and Israeli military leaderships have become particularly peaceful even cordial toward each other, never more so than now.
The foregoing historical exegesis is well known to us Mid-East scholars of course and serves here merely to establish the historical precedent for Israeli shitting.
Came then the flowering, the awakening, the arrival of "Arab Spring." Israel counseled America not to forsake the stalwart Mubarak while requesting an immediate shipment of Immodium. Obama hesitated. Israel counseled against a democratic Egypt as not so stalwart as Mubarak nor as their democratic, stalwart selves. Obama pondered. Obama pondered and then forsook the stalwart Mubarak and used American influence with the stalwart military to urge democratic elections. Which was done. Whereupon USC Trojan and Muslim Brotherhood alum Mohammad Morsi was elected president. And Fight On! Israel shit, scared that the peace treaty would be abrogated.
The short unhappy life of President Muhammad Morsi included an early trip to the United States where he met with the consent manufacturers of The New York Times ("Go Trojans!" he attempted charmingly). It was a correct meeting, a correct trip, the reviews were all correct and proper but neither charming nor warm. Better though than in Free Egypt to which he returned forthwith. Muslims lack the compromise thing so necessary to democratic governance. Holdovers of the stalwart Mubarak conspired to make the trains and all else not run on time, the military maintained a barely correct attitude toward the president and Morsi himself conspired unwittingly with all correctness by consolidating power in the Brotherhood. As Israel said, See! See! Toldja! Toldja! our woman in Cairo maintained more than a correct attitude toward Morsi. The American ambassador encouraged the stalwart Mubarak holdovers to cooperate with the democratically-elected president. Which did not happen. Protests began, protests intensified and in June the American-financed, American-trained Egyptian military announced enough-is-enough and engineered a coup. Israel counseled support for the undemocratic (but stalwart-led) coup just as it had for the undemocratic Mubarak. Israel now objects to the cut in funding to the junta, scared that the peace treaty will be abrogated by the Egyptian military made less stalwart without American influence in the usual form of dollars.
Our historical exegesis is now complete. Whereupon we see that:
1. American influence bought peace for Israel.
2. American influence bought military and commercial access to the Suez Canal and to the territory of Egypt for America.
3. American influence bought peace and prosperity to the Egyptian military.
4. As for the Egyptian people, not so much. American influence did not buy peace for the Egyptian people who are now being killed by the Israeli- and American-supported junta just as they were by Israel in their wars which they, the Egyptians, started. Neither has American influence bought the Egyptian people prosperity as they are an economic "basket case." Neither has American influence bought for the Egyptian people life (see immediately above); nor liberty: Sadat, Mubarak and the junta withheld that civic grace; nor the pursuit of happiness, in both the ordinary meaning of felicity and form of government senses. Except once (in the latter sense): in the June 2012 election.
5. Israel shits entirely too much. Israel has nuclear weapons which it readied for launch in the desperate "Third Temple" days of 1973. Egypt has no nuclear weapons, has not been hostile toward Israel since 1978, has been no match for Israel since, would not have been a match for Israel if it had wanted to be (which it might have!) under Morsi. Both Israel and America should have given more weight to these facts and not supported the coup.
6. American influence has not bought...American influence! Under Obama, America has less influence in both Egypt and Israel. Today's announcement merely is a reflection of that with Egypt. He hesitated with Mubarak, was overtaken by events, pondered over elections, gave mixed signals to Morsi and the military and decided not to decide over the coup. I say less American influence in Egypt is good. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyu all but endorsed Mitt Romney; Netanyahu
and Obama have disagreed about the proper course toward Egypt ever since "Arab Spring." It is not correct for two independent nations to have the influence over one another that America and Israel have. Less American influence: reduce American aid to Israel also. Let the Israelis be Israeli and let the Egyptians be Egyptians.
The Obamas have released a tranche of aid, about $200 mil if I recall correctly, to the Egyptian junta. Obama is a lawyer and this sounds like a typical judge's ruling: No matter what the merits of the case you give a little to both sides. In this instance Judge Obama withheld about $2 bil of what Egypt gets annually. And the judge did not rule on the merits, i.e. didn't call it a coup or explain why it wasn't a coup. This style of ruling is also a hallmark of American diplomacy according to Henry Kissinger maybe because so many lawyers are in government. Intended to partially satisfy everyone it follows that such rulings partially dissatisfy everyone which is the intended subject of this post which began so ignominiously and which provides an abject lesson of the perils of American influence in the world, for both the Egyptian junta and the State of Israel are unhappy with Judge Obama's ruling.
America was mid-wife to Israel's birth and has been guarantor of its existence ever since, none more so than in 1973 when the aforementioned Kissinger saw that "the Third Temple is going under" and rallied President Nixon to prevent same. Which was done. And then when the Third Temple gained the initiative and surrounded the Egyptian army in Sinai Nixon and Kissinger saved Egypt in the manner that Rodney Dangerfield said Frank Sinatra once saved his life when three thugs were beating him and Sinatra stepped in and said "All right, that's enough." This was the second Egyptian-led Arab-Israeli war in six years. An Arab oil embargo resulted impinging on Americans ability to pursue their happiness in Buicks.
By 1978 all sides had had enough and President Carter rallied American influence to bring President Sadat and Prime Minister Began to Camp David in pursuit of peace and lower gasoline prices. Which was done. America used its usual peace pipe and agreement was bought with the approximately $2 bil in annual aid to Egypt aforementioned to which the Israelis objected before acquiescing and with a larger amount to the Third Temple. A peace treaty between Israel and Egypt was signed in 1979. Whereupon Sadat was assassinated (in 1981). Israel shit, afraid that peace with her principal tormentor had gone down the shitter. However Hosni Mubarak succeeded Sadat as president and the peace treaty remained in effect. The Egyptian and Israeli military leaderships have become particularly peaceful even cordial toward each other, never more so than now.
The foregoing historical exegesis is well known to us Mid-East scholars of course and serves here merely to establish the historical precedent for Israeli shitting.
Came then the flowering, the awakening, the arrival of "Arab Spring." Israel counseled America not to forsake the stalwart Mubarak while requesting an immediate shipment of Immodium. Obama hesitated. Israel counseled against a democratic Egypt as not so stalwart as Mubarak nor as their democratic, stalwart selves. Obama pondered. Obama pondered and then forsook the stalwart Mubarak and used American influence with the stalwart military to urge democratic elections. Which was done. Whereupon USC Trojan and Muslim Brotherhood alum Mohammad Morsi was elected president. And Fight On! Israel shit, scared that the peace treaty would be abrogated.
The short unhappy life of President Muhammad Morsi included an early trip to the United States where he met with the consent manufacturers of The New York Times ("Go Trojans!" he attempted charmingly). It was a correct meeting, a correct trip, the reviews were all correct and proper but neither charming nor warm. Better though than in Free Egypt to which he returned forthwith. Muslims lack the compromise thing so necessary to democratic governance. Holdovers of the stalwart Mubarak conspired to make the trains and all else not run on time, the military maintained a barely correct attitude toward the president and Morsi himself conspired unwittingly with all correctness by consolidating power in the Brotherhood. As Israel said, See! See! Toldja! Toldja! our woman in Cairo maintained more than a correct attitude toward Morsi. The American ambassador encouraged the stalwart Mubarak holdovers to cooperate with the democratically-elected president. Which did not happen. Protests began, protests intensified and in June the American-financed, American-trained Egyptian military announced enough-is-enough and engineered a coup. Israel counseled support for the undemocratic (but stalwart-led) coup just as it had for the undemocratic Mubarak. Israel now objects to the cut in funding to the junta, scared that the peace treaty will be abrogated by the Egyptian military made less stalwart without American influence in the usual form of dollars.
Our historical exegesis is now complete. Whereupon we see that:
1. American influence bought peace for Israel.
2. American influence bought military and commercial access to the Suez Canal and to the territory of Egypt for America.
3. American influence bought peace and prosperity to the Egyptian military.
4. As for the Egyptian people, not so much. American influence did not buy peace for the Egyptian people who are now being killed by the Israeli- and American-supported junta just as they were by Israel in their wars which they, the Egyptians, started. Neither has American influence bought the Egyptian people prosperity as they are an economic "basket case." Neither has American influence bought for the Egyptian people life (see immediately above); nor liberty: Sadat, Mubarak and the junta withheld that civic grace; nor the pursuit of happiness, in both the ordinary meaning of felicity and form of government senses. Except once (in the latter sense): in the June 2012 election.
5. Israel shits entirely too much. Israel has nuclear weapons which it readied for launch in the desperate "Third Temple" days of 1973. Egypt has no nuclear weapons, has not been hostile toward Israel since 1978, has been no match for Israel since, would not have been a match for Israel if it had wanted to be (which it might have!) under Morsi. Both Israel and America should have given more weight to these facts and not supported the coup.
6. American influence has not bought...American influence! Under Obama, America has less influence in both Egypt and Israel. Today's announcement merely is a reflection of that with Egypt. He hesitated with Mubarak, was overtaken by events, pondered over elections, gave mixed signals to Morsi and the military and decided not to decide over the coup. I say less American influence in Egypt is good. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyu all but endorsed Mitt Romney; Netanyahu
and Obama have disagreed about the proper course toward Egypt ever since "Arab Spring." It is not correct for two independent nations to have the influence over one another that America and Israel have. Less American influence: reduce American aid to Israel also. Let the Israelis be Israeli and let the Egyptians be Egyptians.
