Egypt is historically a big, influential power across the Muslim world, and it is no surprise that among its neighbors, yesterday’s coup d’etat has provoked a strong reaction. The responses are pretty split, however.
Syria cheered the move by the military as a “great achievement,” seeing the ouster of a Sunni Islamist government as good for them. Turkey’s government sees the exact opposite, as the Ergodan government’s own Islamic proclivities and the nation’s history of coups has them more than a little concerned.
Indeed, across the region what happened in Egypt is being viewed in the context of their own governments, and which side they fall on the Arab Spring very much colors their view on Egypt.
But Syria’s jihadist movement isn’t the only relation to what’s happening in Egypt, as President Morsi’s government endorsing the idea of Egyptian citizens adventuring abroad to impose Islamist government in Syria was seen as key in Morsi losing the military’s support. The end of Morsi’s rule likely means an end to Egypt allowing its citizens to go to Syria, which will surely be a relief to the Assad government.
Palestinians are split down the middle on the issue, with President Mahmoud Abbas cheering the coup, and Hamas losing a major ally in Morsi. Egypt’s deployment of masses of tanks along the Gaza border makes it clear the new junta will be no ally of Hamas.
Perhaps the biggest “lesson” may be a rhetorical one, with Somalia’s al-Shabaab faction saying the coup proved that democracy simply doesn’t work, and that endorsing elections was a ticket to defeat, since even when an Islamist faction wins the vote, they just get sidelined by the military.
Next on the list is the government of Erdogan.., this man is not representing the Turkish people but the interests of the Saudis and Wahhabis, the UAE and USA. Look: USA and England have lost their political legitimacy in Middle East and elsewhere in this world, no one is believing a word comes out the USA government or the English, it is not the fault of the people or the peoples government but rather the USA and England hypocrisy, the falsified democracy presented fir last 60 years, the US and England have shown their true agendas in this world, cooperating, supporting regimes as Erdogan or Muhammad Morsi, the Saudis, the Wahhabis, the barbarians operating in Syria is their last resort abeling them to continue milking the cow while people are killed by these regimes. The time is 2013, mankind have developed to another dimension in its circle of life, understands democracy and its principals, people's demand is for democracy to function, what needs to be changed is for USA and England stop forcing their falsified democracy on people's throat suffocating them, while militarizing the world and wanting to build nations or changing governments that are the people's government.
Morsi endorsing with words what US, Turkey, some EU countries and the Gulf satellites endorse with weapons. Right.