Egypt Must Maintain Peace with Israel

Middle Eastern Affairs expert Dr. Mordechai Kedar of Bar Ilan University recently told United With Israel, "It is nice for Israel that the Muslim Brotherhood does not control Egypt, yet all that matters is that the peace agreement is kept. I'm not expecting hugs and kisses. All we need is that the peace agreement will be kept and implemented. The rest is not our business. If Morsi kept it, we have basis to believe that the others less committed to the Islamist way of thinking will not break the rules, especially because they need foreign aid."

Some Israeli officials believe that the next Egyptian President will be better for Israel than Morsi, whose anti-semitic statements included comparing Zionists to the descendants of apes and pigs and calling upon Egyptians to nurse their children and grandchildren on hatred for Jews.

Opinion: Kudos to Egypt for Mending the Morsi Mistake

Critics who call the Egyptian army's recent coup "undemocratic" are placing form over substance and forgetting that the election of Mohamed Morsi was itself arguably undemocratic. With the Muslim Brotherhood emerging as the only organized political force in the election, there was little chance of meaningful competition in the mere six months between Hosni Mubarak's overthrow and Egypt's first free elections.

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