A house divided

Barry Rubin argues that divisions among Egypt's liberal parties will result in the Muslim Brotherhood controlling the country after its upcoming elections. I never thought the Brotherhood will get a majority. My concern is that it will control around 40 percent of the seats, be the largest single bloc, and get most of what it wants in a new constitution. The president will most likely be Amr

Israel offered Mubarak asylum

I think he should have kept his mouth shut about it, but former Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer is telling anyone who will listen that Israel offered asylum to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. "I was in touch with him every day for 20-30 minutes during the [Egyptian] revolution. He didn't estimate properly the explosive nature of the rallies," Ben-Eliezer said."When I saw how it was heading, I

Egypt's mobocracy

Well, what a shock. Ordinary Egyptians joined with the Egyptian army to drive 'pro-democracy' protesters from Cairo's Tahrir Square (Hat Tip: Memeorandum). Squeezed between an assertive military and the country's resurgent Islamist movement, many Internet-savvy, pro-democracy activists are finding it increasingly hard to remain relevant in a post-revolutionary Egypt that is struggling to

Egypt-Israel gas pipeline attacked for third time this month

For the third time in the month of July, and the fifth time in 2011, the Egyptian gas pipeline to Israel was attacked on Saturday. This time it wasn't even running. After the attack on the pipeline and a separate weekend attack on a police station in the port town of El-Arish, Egyptian security sources told Israel Hayom that the new government in Cairo was losing control over part of the