Take me back to Camp David
The immediate problem with Egypt's contact group for Syria is that Turkey -- in yet another stance of its spectacularly counter-productive foreign policy -- decided to boycott NAM. Yet Egypt is undeterred, proposing to add Iraq and Algeria to the contact group.[2]
And in steps Tehran with yet another diplomatic "sweeping" proposal, according to the Foreign Ministry; a NAM troika of Egypt, Iran and Venezuela, plus Syria's neighbors Iraq and Lebanon. So everybody wants to talk -- apart, given the evidence, from Turkey. Tehran's proposal is fully supported by Russia.
And just as US corporate media coverage was reveling in the hate speeches at the millionaires' convention in Tampa, "isolated" Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei meets with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Tehran and calls for a nuclear-free Middle East.[3]
Needless to say, none of this has been reported by US corporate media.
Meanwhile, all global South eyes are on Morsi. They way things are moving, it's not far-fetched to imagine the Muslim Brotherhood playing the Camp David card sooner or later. In that case, expect Washington to go ballistic -- and even time-travel to 1970s Latin America, as in promoting (yet another) military coup.
The bottom line is, if the Muslim Brotherhood really articulates an independent foreign policy over the next few months, with even a hint that Camp David should be renegotiated (over 90% of Egyptians would support it), the warmongering Bibi-Barak duo had better get real.
Notes:
1. See here for China Daily report.
2. See here
3. See here
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