Walid Phares believes the cease-fire will last but says don’t be surprised if there are rockets launched in the first few hours of the cease-fire. Egypt has guaranteed a cessation of rocket fire from Gaza and have made themselves accountable for it and because of that, Phares says, Morsi has become a king maker in the region and now can ask anything of the United States he wants.
So basically Phares is pointing out that Morsi allowed rockets to be smuggled into Gaza and then becomes the one who is responsible for keeping Hamas from launching rockets and thus becomes vital to ‘keeping the peace’. He gains a lot of leverage against the US, guaranteeing that we keep sending them money.
Have we just been played like a cheap fiddle?
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