Caroline Glick comes to the same conclusion as our August 12 Call
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ShareOur weekly call with our regular journalists (transcript posted here) concluded that Egyptian President Morsi's purge of military leaders made an Israeli strike on Iran more probable. Writing today, Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick offers the same conclusion.
According the the Israel media, the IDF was surprised by Morsy's move. Clearly our esteemed generals believed reassurances they received from their Egyptian military counterparts that Israel had no reason to be concerned with the election of Hamas's big brother to Egypt's presidency.
[The Israeli general staff's] failure to understand Egypt speaks all the more strongly for the full justification and necessity of Barak and Netanyahu's current media campaign to force the IDF to fall in line on attacking Iran.
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