Mubarak dynasty’s nuclear arms race

Hosni Mubarak’s son, who seems to be the one who will ultimately inherit his father's reign on Egypt, continues to supply, much like his father, headlines about his nuclear ambitions. Not all Egyptians are pleased with the strengthening of the son's position, and a website is trying to convince people that there is a ‘danger to democracy’

It seems as though no one was surprised by the statements of Gamal Mubarak, who is being groomed to be the successor, and the statements of his father Hosni regarding the ambitions of Egypt to develop its nuclear capabilities.

There were those in Israel and around the world that warned that the real threat of the Iranian nuclear program is not that the Ayatollahs would launch a missile on Israel, but that the project would drag the entire Middle East into a race after nuclear technology. And now, this might be the first step in this race under the politically correct name of "nuclear energy for peaceful purposes."

It was Mubarak the son who was asked this week whether Egypt would be limited because of their use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Mubarak the son didn't flinch, and said in a press conference during the convention of the National Democratic Party that "Egypt is not the only country which is thinking on building nuclear reactors for the purpose of energy. There are many more counties who preceded Egypt in that line of thought and the entire world is cooperating with them and helping them in that matter." He also said that Egypt had signed the Nuclear Anti-Proliferation Treaty which compels the signatories to use nuclear energy only for peaceful purposes.

Roee Nahmias
Published: 09.24.06, 23:52

This is just one more reason for Israel to hit Iran now with overwhelming force to stop Iran’s nuclear program.

Make no mistake that Egypt would use nuclear weapons against Israel just as fast as Iran would.