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Source: http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/docs/perspectives126.pdf
The Need for Minds over Hearts in the Egyptian Crisis
(BESA Center for Strategic Studies-Bar-Ilan University) Hillel Frisch - Supporting Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman in the current crisis will prevent a Muslim Brotherhood takeover of Egypt and avoid a bloody and protracted Egyptian civil war marked by foreign intervention. The West should support Suleiman and the military both for strategic reasons and out of concern for those demonstrators with democratic ideals who otherwise are likely to fall prey to a far worse fate than the regime they are attempting to overthrow. The writer is a senior research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies and a professor of political science at Bar-Ilan University.