Israeli praise for Egypt's Omar Suleiman

[harvey007]

http://wikileaks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/02/09/israel_has_long_been_a_fan_of_omar_suleiman

[WhiteTara]

1. well that one real reason to dislike Suleiman

because that means he's their man.

[DCKit]

2. And ours. He needs to be excluded from the next government, for the good of all that is just. nt

[WhiteTara]

4. I completely agree

I read that the people in the square are putting up Wael Ghonim. These are definitely interesting times.

[Jefferson23]

3. From the Financial Times:

Leaked cables reveal faith in Suleiman


Published: February 6 2011 18:26 | Last updated: February 6 2011 18:36

Omar Suleiman, the new Egyptian vice-president championed by the Obama administration as central to an orderly transition, is a long-time ally of Washington, whose diplomats have repeatedly dubbed him President Hosni Mubarak’s “consigliere”.

Dispatches from the US embassy in Cairo, obtained by the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, consistently refer to the one-time general who until recently headed Egypt’s General Intelligence Service, as key to the bilateral relationship.

He is described as a man with “the full confidence of Mubarak” and commended by Margaret Scobey, the current US ambassador, as a “pragmatist with an extremely sharp analytical mind”.

Mr Mubarak sought to quell anti-regime unrest by making Mr Suleiman his first vice-president on January 29. Until then, the general had been in charge of Egypt’s foremost intelligence agency.

The cables describe how, in practice, he handled every aspect of foreign policy in the Middle East, including negotiations over the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, the Iraq war and the containing of Iranian influence. On all these issues, he was seen as acting in harmony with US interests.

in full: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f3295176-321b-11e0-a820-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1DTk4d4XV

[Dokkie]

5. this is a sign that he

must be rejected or maybe its some sort of reverse psychology