Israel’s peaceful relationship with its neighbors in Egypt comes at a high price: the deal obliges the US to provide massive amounts of unconditional military aid to Egypt.
And that’s where things get dicey. A military coup normally obliges the US to suspend military aid, which is why the US is avoiding calling this coup a “coup” in so many words, hoping to gloss over that fact.
But Egypt is a big deal, and a coup there is a little hard for the US to just write off as no big deal, which has Israeli officials fretting the prospect that the US might eventually be obliged to revoke aid to the new junta and “violating” the Egypt-Israel treaty in doing so.
Not that this means a serious risk of war, as both nations have been be getting billions from the US for decades and are both armed to the teeth. The US money buys Israel a lot of influence however, like the right under the treaty to dictate Egypt’s military policy in Sinai.
Israel is also expressing concern that jihadists will use the “power vacuum” to carry out attacks along the border, though Egypt has heavily deployed its military along the Gaza frontier, so this also seems unlikely.
In the end, the first impact the coup may have for Israel is weakening Hamas and strengthening Fatah, as Hamas had close ideological ties with President Morsi and was even in the process of ditching its long-standing alliance with Syria and Iran in favor of Egypt.
This story seems unfounded. The Egyptian coup is a replay of Gaza. No way the ZE was going to abide by a Muslim Brotherhood government. I'd bet money the US at Israel's dictation paid the Egyptian Army to depose Morsi and re-criminalize the Brotherhood. Instability isn't a problem. If the ZE cannot have US controlled dictators in the region, failed states and civil wars are the next best thing.
You're ignoring the ever-so-tiny detail of the MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS OF SCREAMING EGYPTIANS IN THE STREETS demanding the resignation of Morsi. Only someone completely and utterly blinded by his own political leanings could blame Morsi's woes on Israel (without even being able to refer to it by name) and fail to see the TENS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE who are the INCREDIBLY OBVIOUS reason Morsi had to step down. It wasn't Israel that soured those millions on an Islamist government; it was the Islamists themselves. But a guy calling himself "JJJihad" wouldn't be expected to admit the truth about how predictably disastrous an Islamist regime was going to be.
Wait…what?!?!? Really?? Who's the idiot in the USG who signed on to this? Seriously folks, time to turn off the spigot of US taxpayers $$$ to the ME. Screw 'em. They can make it (or not) without the US taxpayer largess. Tell you what…how about all those Dominionists who say they need the state of Israel to exist for their plans to work…let THEM pay the Egyptians and the Israelis to play nice – instead of sending it to Crouch and TBN.
If Israel fears then US will comply. In fact, Israel helps US to keep doing what US always did, support the military state within the state in Egypt.
as Hamas had close ideological ties with President Morsi and was even in the process of ditching its long-standing alliance with Syria and Iran in favor of Egypt.
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What? Are you confusing Hamas with Hezzbollah?