Video: Ehud Barak Calls for Backing El-Sissi and Interim Egyptian Government

(CNN) Fareed Zakaria - Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said in a recent interview: "I think that the whole world should support Sissi. I think you have to support him. If we [Israel] support him it will probably embarrass him, it probably won't help him. But Sissi and the liberals, Baradei and others, they deserve the support of the Free World. To whom else can they turn?" "Morsi was elected relatively fairly, but he immediately turned to use the very tools of being quite democratically elected, turning it into a totally totalitarian Sharia-like extreme Islamist system - and his own people rejected it."


2013-08-16 00:00:00

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