Quiet Worries as Israel Watches an Ally Depart
Middle East • February 2011 • Views: 714
Eli Shaked, Israel’s ambassador to Cairo from 2003 to 2005 and deputy ambassador there from 1989 to 1992, gave a bleak analysis of Egypt’s prospects to move toward democracy, saying by telephone that it had too few institutions, educated people and political parties to move to a democratic system. He feared that the only force organized enough to take over was the Muslim Brotherhood, which he described as anti-American, anti-Israel and anti-peace.