CHEERED BY ISRAEL, THE WHITE HOUSE AND PENTAGON WERE BEHIND “COUP DE NILE” by Syarif Hidayat Cheered by Israeli leaders, The White House and Pentagon were behind the Egyptian military coup that ousted a democracticaly elected President Muhammad Morsi from power. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported: Marathon phone calls about the coup took place between Jerusalem and Washington. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon spoke with Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, and National Security Advisor Yaakov Amidror spoke with his White House counterpart, Susan Rice. The senior American official said the talks were aimed at coordinating U.S. and Israeli positions on the Egyptian crisis. (Here is a photo of US President Barack Obama discussing the events in Egypt with his national security team in the Situation Room). Political analyst Michael Burns said that the United States is trying to protect the interests of Israel regarding the recent chaos in Egypt. “In respect to Egypt, we are trying to protect the interests of Israel,” he told Press TV. He made the remarks after it was revealed that the man who was behind the recent military coup in Egypt was a student at the U.S. Army War College.Egyptian Defense Minister Lt. Gen. Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, who engineered the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi on Wednesday, attended the war college in Carlisle, Pa., in 2006.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 21:45:11 +0000
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