Ynet ran a very interesting interview with two former Israeli ambassadors to Egypt about Cairo’s dwindling diplomatic weight in Arab and Third World politics.
Putting aside the ultra-rosy picture they drew of Egypt’s former dictator Anwar el-Sadat, and the exaggerated paranoia one of the ambassadors had on the prospects of a “Muslim Brothers coup,” I found it interesting to know a bit more about Tel-Aviv’s take on Mubarak’s personality, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, and what they saw to be the reasons behind Cairo’s downfall.
You can find the interview here…
From the Washington Post:
“The Holocaust’s Arab Heroes”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100601417_pf.html
Surely one of the things that first led to Egypt losing its leadership role in the Arab world was signing the peace treaty with Israel (the other being a series of oil booms that increased Saudi Arabia’s economic power).