EL-BARADEI IS NO HELP FOR EGYPTIAN FREEDOM

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Middle East: With Islamists winning 70% in a second round of parliamentary voting, Egypt is speeding toward a theocratic, anti-American dictatorship. The “Arab Spring” is turning into a long winter of despotism.

Serious long-term trouble is brewing in the Mideast. The continued rise of the Muslim Brotherhood’s ridiculously named “Freedom and Justice Party,” as well as the Al-Nour Party of the radical Salafi movement, places in jeopardy the assassinated Anwar Sadat’s three-decades-old peace settlement between historic adversaries Egypt and Israel.

Add a soon-to-be-nuclear Iran and a Syrian terror regime that refuses to be toppled by street demonstrators and the skies above these ancient lands look dark indeed.

Some observers hasten to remind us, however, that the land of the pharaohs is home to someone who might save it from sharia law and jihadism, and preserve the Mideast from another full-blown war — a man of peace and Western enlightenment named Mohamed ElBaradei.

But on Tuesday, the ex-chief of the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency, who says he will run for Egypt’s presidency next year, once again demonstrated how short he is on wisdom……CONTINUE READING AT SITE

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