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Generational Dynamics Web Log for 28-Jan-2014
28-Jan-14 World View -- Army strongman al-Sisi may be Egypt's next president

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28-Jan-14 World View -- Army strongman al-Sisi may be Egypt's next president

Israel's PM Netanyahu slammed because son Yair is dating a gentile

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Army strongman al-Sisi may be Egypt's next president
Al-Qaeda leader al-Zawahiri says: Don't fight the Christians in Egypt
Israel's PM Netanyahu slammed because son Yair is dating a gentile

Army strongman al-Sisi may be Egypt's next president

Abdel al-Fattah al-Sisi (AP)

Abdel al-Fattah al-Sisi (AP)

Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) on Monday gave its permission for army leader Abdel al-Fattah al-Sisi to become a civilian and run for president. This followed an announcement promoting al-Sisi from General to Field Marshal. According to reports, al-Sisi will announce within the next couple of days to resign from the army and enter the upcoming presidential elections as a civilian candidate.

Al-Sisi led the coup that ousted former president Hosni Mubarak and his Muslim Brotherhood government, and he's become extremely popular for his tough stand against terrorism, which many people blame on the Brotherhood. However, he's also an extremely divisive figure, since MB supporters consider him a criminal.

Al-Sisi is expected to win the presidential election. What's ironic is that three years after the Egyptian Revolution that ousted one military strongman, Hosni Mubarak, it appears that Egypt will soon be ruled by another. Al-Ahram (Cairo) and BBC

Al-Qaeda leader al-Zawahiri says: Don't fight the Christians in Egypt

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has surprised observers by appearing to be defending Christians in Egypt. Instead of fighting Christians, Egyptian jihadists should focus their fire on Field Marshal Abdel al-Fattah al-Sisi. According to al-Zawahiri,

"We must not seek war with the Christians and thus give the West an excuse to blame Muslims, as has happened before. ...
[Al-Sisi] is a mercenary, an Americanized puppet, an impostor, treacherous and sinful with a history of bootlicking."

Israel's PM Netanyahu slammed because son Yair is dating a gentile

Yair Netanyahu and Sandra Leikanger

Yair Netanyahu and Sandra Leikanger

Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is being criticized because is son Yair, 23, is dating a non-Jewish Norwegian girl, Sandra Leikanger, 25.

One prominent Jewish education leader in Israel called on Netanyahu to "prevent the relationship":

"[T]he consequences of your son's actions, despite his being private individual, are far-reaching, both in terms of your family personally and in more national terms as well.
On the personal level, his children - your grandchildren, as you certainly know, will not be Jews; their name may be Netanyahu, but Netanyahu the non-Jew. On the national level, this is the son of the prime minister of Israel, the state of the Jewish nation, who will join the six million (lost Jews in the Holocaust) as Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir declared."

Many Jews consider assimilation of other cultures into the Jewish culture to be an abomination. According to one commentator:

"I know friends of mine who invest tens of millions and more, hundreds of millions to fight assimilation in the world. If G-d forbid it's true, woe to us. ... I hope it's not true. [I]f this thing is true, there's a huge heart-break for him and [his wife] Sarah from this."

This debate comes in the context of a different kind of assimilation issue. On Friday, Netanyahu raised a firestorm by saying that up to 500,000 settlers might remain in the West Bank in a new state of Palestine, if a two-state solution were adopted, and that they would be under the jurisdiction of the government of Palestine. Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat shot back:

"No settler will be allowed to stay in the Palestinian state, not even a single one, because settlements are illegal and the presence of the settlers on the occupied lands is illegal."

This brought charges of hypocrisy from Israeli leaders, who pointed to the many Palestinians living in Israel. However, Netanyahu also received criticism from some Israeli leaders, with Israel's pro-settler economy minister calling Netanyahu's suggestion "ethnic insanity." Jerusalem Post and Israel National News and The National (UAE)

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