An Expose on Amr Moussa, Egypt’s Leading Presidential Contender
The New Republic has published a probing profile of Egypt’s leading presidential contender, Amr Moussa. In “The Throwback” Eric Trager describes a candidate whose views would, at face-value, return Egypt’s political culture to the openly anti-Israel attitudes it flaunted prior to the Camp David Accords and the Peace Treaty.
According to Trager, Moussa
— gratuitously sparked outrage by indicating that he would refuse to visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial.
— opposed re-signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)—unless Israel signed it first.
— backed Yasser Arafat’s refusal to compromise on Jerusalem
— called on the Arab world to support the Palestinian Intifada
— declared the Palestinians’ “right of return” to Israel a “sacred right”
— told a group of Egyptian youths that the Camp David Accords had “expired”
— called for a “no-fly zone” over Gaza
— seeks to strengthen Arab-Iranian ties
Moussa is 75 years old, so he is likely to be a transition figure. But his popularity among the Egyptian public can only heighten concern over what will follow.
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