Salama Ahmed Salama, one of Egypt’s most prestigious and influential columnists, in a recent (23 July, sorry no link) Al Ahram editorial:
Egypt should adopt the same policy as Iran with regards to acquiring new military technology, notably nuclear weapons, in order to prevent Israeli threats, which are constantly getting worse.
Strategically speaking, can you say he’s wrong? Incidentally Salama has been going around this issue cautiously for weeks while commenting on the Iran nuclear crisis, but I think this is his most frank statement so far.
makram mohamed ahmed has also written several articles recently about the need for an egyptian nuclear program.
and the million dollars question is.
what is the probability of an Israeli military strike against Egyptian nuclear facilities or against Egypt in general if we ever go this way?
Is this at all realistic, would the Americans let Egypt acquire nukes?
Aren’t Egypt and Israel on good terms because they’re both staunch allies of the US? How likely is it that one of the two largest recipients of US foreign aid would attack the other? Would the US allow that to happen?