Authors Note: This article was published on July 29, 2010. It's content makes interesting reading in view of the recent overthrow of Egypt's President. The article written a year earlier demonstrates why the revolution took place.

In May of 2009 at Kingscalendar.com, under the title: Egypt: The Future Islamofacist State, I drew attention to the Future of Egypt given the rise of Islamic Fundamentalism. I state therein that if the winds of Islamic fundamentalism keep blowing as they have, coupled as they are in Egypt with a people unimpressed with the governments achievements, then before long, Egypt will once again crumble into the dust of history.

Within that article I quoted Zvi Mazel's Think like an Egyptian in which he wrote:

Egypt is caught in a political quagmire wherein if they chase or kill terrorists it will be compared with Israel.

Egypt's problem with the Muslim Brotherhood correlates directly to their problem with Hamas.

The Egyptians are as afraid of terrorists as are the Israelis, but they also do not know how to deal with people who don't care about human lives

See also: Dreams Stifled, Egypt's Young Turn to Islamic Fervor (New York times on February 17th 2008)

The future of Egypt after President Mubarak disappears from the scene, is the subject [in part] of an article recently published by Caroline Glick who writes for the Jerusalem Post.

In her article Change we must believe in Caroline Glick looks at the recent changes that have taken place in Turkey which is veering away from its NATO 'mission statement' as it were, and then looks at Egypt. She offers an inciteful look into the way the future of the Middle East is taking shape, and that future has direct impact on the U.S.A. and the rest of the free world.

As pertaining to Egypt, here are a few quotes from that article:

• The Washington Times reported that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is terminally ill and likely will die within the year.
  
  Egypt has never been Israel's strategic ally. In recent years however, Egypt's interests have converged with Israel's regarding the threat posed by Iran and its terror proxies Hizbullah and Hamas - the Palestinian branch of the Mubarak regime's nemesis, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. These shared interests have paved the way for security cooperation between the two countries on several issues.
  
  All of this is liable to change after Mubarak exits the stage. In all likelihood the Muslim Brotherhood will have greater influence and power than it enjoys today. And this means that a successor regime in Egypt will likely have closer ties to the Iranian axis.
  
  Recognizing the shifting winds, presidential hopefuls are cultivating ties with the Brotherhood.
  
  For instance, former International Atomic Energy Agency chief and current Egyptian presidential hopeful Mohamed El-Baradei has been wooing the Brotherhood for months.
  
  If and when the Brotherhood gains power and influence in Egypt, it is likely that Egypt will begin sponsoring the likes of Hamas, al-Qaida and other terrorist organizations. And the more powerful the Brotherhood becomes in Egypt, the more likely it is that Egypt will abrogate its peace treaty with Israel.
  
  Were Egypt to abrogate the treaty, a conventional war between Egypt and Israel would become a tangible prospect for the first time since 1973.
  
  Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's routine fawning pilgrimage to Mubarak this week seemed to demonstrate that our leaders are not thinking about the storm that is brewing just over the horizon in Cairo.

One can't help but wonder if the reason why leaders cannot see the brewing storms just over the horizon, is that they are too busy bowing the knee to a variety of politically motivated ideologues and their media sycophants.

In this Politically Correct high tech age with it's accelerated high speed information transference, it is easy for us to get caught up in what amounts to little more than propaganda, but as I wrote in Media Psychoses and a Mental Press; 'It's very easy to 'take sides' in an issue, and it is very easy to be persuaded of a cause, but at the end of the day, unless it is our specific purpose to blind ourselves to the truth, it is encumbent upon us to do our best to look at every situation from as many persepectives as possible'.

Recently the same Caroline Glick as already quoted, wrote about this same issue of politically and ideologically motivated media. In her article: Fit for 'The New York Times' (Jerusalem Post July 9, 2010) she wrote:

• We are stuck in a rut because politically and ideologically motivated media organs operate hand in globe with radical groups seeking to undermine Israel's national sovereignty and end its alliance with the US. Together they manufacture news that bears no relation to reality or the true challenges facing those who seek peace in the Middle East. But obviously for The New York Times, that is what makes it fit to print.
  
  Whereas the Times required five reporters to work for weeks to come up with exactly nothing illegal in the operations of US charitable groups that support Jewish communities the Times wishes to destroy, the Times would have needed to invest no resources whatsoever to discover that the PA kills any Arab who sells land to Jews. The PA has made no effort to hide this policy. It is in the public sphere for anyone willing to look at reality.
  
  The Times' article is a textbook case of the media's ideologically motivated aggression against Middle East reality. Any way you look at it, it is a premeditated affront to the very notion that the role of a newspaper is to report facts rather manufacture news aimed at shaping perceptions and skewing debate.

That last line pretty much sums up the reality of media today, and it behooves us not to let our thoughts, opinions, beliefs and ideals to be spoonfed us in the name of Political Correctness or political expediency.

The world is changing, and there is not much that we can do about it, but if that change occurs both dramatically and negatively, then we ourselves must face the possibility of our own culpability for that change.

R.P. BenDedek

Email: rpbendedek@hotmail.com

R.P.BenDedek is the Author of 'The King's Calendar: The Secret of Qumran' and a guest columnist at Magic City Morning Star News.

"The King's Calendar" [ on sale - while the economic recession is on], is a chronological study of the historical books of the Bible (Kings and Chronicles), Josephus, Seder Olam Rabbah, and the (Essene) Damascus Document of The Dead Sea Scrolls. See Chapter Precis page.

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