By HERB KEINON
03/02/2011
Netanyahu tells the Knesset "We need to see things as they are, not as we wished they would be."

With the world naturally swept up by the yearnings for liberty in Egypt, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu raised a voice of caution Wednesday, telling the Knesset that while everyone would like to see true democracy and freedom in Egypt, there was no guarantee this would be the result of the current turmoil.

Likewise, he said, the situation in Egypt showed how everything in the Middle East could change overnight, and as a result, any peace accord with the Palestinians must be based on security arrangements that would ensure Israel’s security even if a future peace were to unravel.

“In Washington, London and Paris – all over the democratic world – leaders, analysts and researchers all spoke about the opportunities inherent in the changes taking place in Egypt,” Netanyahu said.

“They talked about the dawn of a new day, and these hopes are understood,” he went on.

“All of those for whom human freedom is precious, including the Israeli public, are inspired by the calls for democratic reforms and the possibility that they will actually be implemented everywhere.”

And, he said, an Egypt enshrined with democratic values “will not constitute any threat to peace, but the opposite.”

However, Netanyahu warned, this was not the only possible outcome or scenario.

“Because far from Washington, Paris and London, but not that far from Jerusalem, there is another hope, in another capital,” he said.

Netanyahu said in that capital, Teheran, there were also leaders who recognized the opportunities inherent in the changes in Egypt, and who also expressed their support for the Egyptian masses who took to the streets.

“They are also talking about the dawn of a new day, but for these people in that capital, we are not talking about a day in which the dawn will break, but a day in which darkness will fall,” he said.

Netanyahu said that Iran’s leaders were in no way interested in the Egyptian people’s yearnings for freedom, liberalization and reform, or in an “enlightened Egypt,” but in an Egypt that “will return to the Middle Ages.”

“They want Egypt to turn into another Gaza, that will be run by radical forces and will oppose everything we desire, everything the democratic world represents,” he said.

Netanyahu said there were two worldviews at odds: “That of the free, democratic world, and that of the radical world.

Which worldview will win out in Egypt?” Netanyahu said Israel clearly favored the forces “that promote freedom, progress and peace. We are against the forces that will bring dark tyranny, terrorism and war.”

Bib great job.

I am not your biggest fan truth be told not a fan at all but today where credit is due I must give it to you Bibi again great job