My Comment: Why is our president still after all that has come to light still pushing for the muslim brotherhood in Egypt? With all the distractions here I almost missed this article, the MSM is not covering it. Again, while we are distracted the beast kingdom is rising out of the sea. I still have to ask a question using the presidents own words when Mubarak was removed: Why are you still supporting terror when it’s obvious (his own words now) “The people of Egypt have spoken, their voices have been heard”?? Read here.
(Israel National News) Egypt, government officials said Thursday, will “not be pressured” by the United States into changing its policies on how to deal with Islamist radicals. “Egypt will not submit to American pressure,” a government spokesperson said in the wake of an announcement by Washington that it would withhold some military assistance.
On Wednesday, the State Department confirmed that it would cut hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Egypt to register displeasure over the military’s pace of restoring democracy following the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi.
The U.S. provides $1.5 billion in annual aid to Egypt, but the State Department did not provide a dollar amount of the aid being cut. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki was quoted as having said the United States will withhold delivery of certain large-scale military systems, as well as cash assistance to the Egyptian government, until “credible progress” is made toward an inclusive government set up through free and fair elections.
Speaking Thursday morning, Egyptian government spokesperson Abd al-A’iti said that “the American stance does not specify a reduction of American aid, but an extension of a delay in providing this aid. The United States has done this in the past, it is not new.”
With that, he added, “the decision to delay aid is a mistaken one and unacceptable. It broadcasts the wrong message to those who wish to interfere in the relationship between Egypt and the United States. This stance does not take into account the fact that Egypt is fighting terrorism,” he said.
The Egyptian spokesperson stressed that Cairo was acting against the Muslim Brotherhood “not in order to satisfy America’s desires, but in response to the needs of the Egyptian people.” He called on the administration of President Barack H. Obama to “reconsider” his decision.
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