A senior American Jewish writer called on Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize because of his role in excluding Islamists from power. He asked: "How could we find an ally who does not hesitate to wage war on a collaborator with Israel?"
"Critics of the Sisi are reproducing the behavior that the American elites have treated the Shah's regime in Iran, which led to the overthrow of his regime and the advent of an anti-Western regime," said columnist Mike Ivan of the New York Times.
In an article published today in the Jerusalem Post, Ivan warned that the strategic location of Egypt would have enabled the Islamists to use Egyptian geography as a starting point in waging wars, considering that Sisi's decision to rid his country of Islamist rule was "the most courageous decision taken by a modern-day leader "He said.
Sisi, whom he described as "Winston Churchill Arabs," moved against the Muslim Brotherhood, while "the United States covered up in sleep" and allowed the group to raise funds within it. Ivan praised Sissi not only for his role in fighting the Muslim Brotherhood but also for his decision to re-evaluate teaching and teaching curricula in Egyptian mosques and schools.
"Where can we find a Muslim ally with this moral serenity?" He asked. "How could we find an ally who does not hesitate to wage war on a supporter in cooperation with Israel," he continued, praising the actions he took to protect Christians.
Ivan strongly criticized both the State Department and the US media for criticizing Sissi, saying accusations of human rights violations were "false."
He likened the position of the American liberal elites to Sisi to the positions of these elites from the Shah's regime, which provided an environment that helped topple him.
Based on personal interviews he said he conducted with Farah Shah, widow of the Iranian shah, Ivan claimed that the pressure exerted by the administration of President Jimmy Carter contributed to forcing the monarchy in Tehran to ease restrictions on freedoms, which contributed to the outbreak of the revolution and the overthrow of the regime as a whole.
Ivan called on American liberal elites to abandon the "absolute standards of the concepts of good, evil, wrong and right," accusing these elites of feeding "evil" and providing conditions by criticizing the human rights record in Egypt.
