enhanced_deficit
07-08-2013, 04:24 PM
Pro-Israel Advocates Push for Continued Aid to Egypt
On the one hand, some analysts are arguing that the U.S. must try hard to dispel the notion that it supported or now accepts the coup, lest it persuade Islamist parties, including Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood, that its purported promotion of democracy worldwide does not apply to them.
On the other hand, other analysts – many of them neo-conservatives and others closely associated with the Israel lobby — have greeted the coup in Egypt more positively, urging the Obama administration to accept the coup, continue aid, and work closely with the generals...
http://www.lobelog.com/pro-israel-advocates-push-for-continued-aid-to-egypt/
Plant obliges even though US law requires him to cut off aid to Egyptian military that has overthrown a democratically engineered regime.
Obama Administration Rules Out Suspension of Aid to Egypt in Near ... (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=aid%20egypt%20military&source=newssearch&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC0Q-AsoATAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com%2F201 3%2F07%2F08%2Fobama-administration-rules-out-suspension-of-aid-to-egypt-in-near-term%2F&ei=6DnbUfqgHove8ATEsoCYDQ&usg=AFQjCNG-cQrdkiaBT8zAHVle4WfIxHMIEw&bvm=bv.48705608,d.eWU)New York Times-1 hour ago
On the one hand, some analysts are arguing that the U.S. must try hard to dispel the notion that it supported or now accepts the coup, lest it persuade Islamist parties, including Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood, that its purported promotion of democracy worldwide does not apply to them.
On the other hand, other analysts – many of them neo-conservatives and others closely associated with the Israel lobby — have greeted the coup in Egypt more positively, urging the Obama administration to accept the coup, continue aid, and work closely with the generals...
http://www.lobelog.com/pro-israel-advocates-push-for-continued-aid-to-egypt/
Plant obliges even though US law requires him to cut off aid to Egyptian military that has overthrown a democratically engineered regime.
Obama Administration Rules Out Suspension of Aid to Egypt in Near ... (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=aid%20egypt%20military&source=newssearch&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC0Q-AsoATAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com%2F201 3%2F07%2F08%2Fobama-administration-rules-out-suspension-of-aid-to-egypt-in-near-term%2F&ei=6DnbUfqgHove8ATEsoCYDQ&usg=AFQjCNG-cQrdkiaBT8zAHVle4WfIxHMIEw&bvm=bv.48705608,d.eWU)New York Times-1 hour ago