[Olog-hai]

Beilin is a liberal from Israel’s Labor Party. I don’t know what he wants to achieve by publishing this.

[arderkrag]

Soooo...The Egyptian army rigged the elections FOR Morsi, then arranged a political coup against him?


This must be some of that "above my pay grade" thinking. Or, more likely, this guy is blowing smoke.

[no-to-illegals]

to give stalin a smile in hades.

[BeadCounter]

I was for Mubarak from way back because an Egyptian told me he wasn’t that bad. This is what we get with the media pushing the Arab Spring and it was on some mainstream boards as well. These things almost always turn out badly,

[idov]

When Yossi Beilin says something on domestic politics you don’t believe a word he says. Why he is getting involved in foreign matters I don’t know. This is like asking Al Sharpton what happened at the Zimmerman trial.

[ScaniaBoy]

NB: Beilin is not the first to write about this. However, the initial rumour did not point to the Egyptian army as the prime mover, but......you'll be so surprised.....the Obama administration:

The essay Everything You Wanted to Know About the Egypt Problem that the Media or Politicians Won’t Tell You by Michael Youssef was posted here on FR 14 July.

People who can do simple math will discover that less than 15 percent of the population voted “yes” on that referendum. But that’s not the entire story.

According to documents discovered after the recent June 30th Revolution, Morsi actually lost the election by more than 200,000 votes. But the American ambassador in Cairo, Anne Patterson, who was carrying the wishes of her bosses in Washington, pressured the military counsel (English Translation) to declare Morsi the winner. The reason? To avoid bloodshed.

The original source is the Egyptian analyst and writer Tarek Haggy. A year previously (June 2, 2012) Haggy wrote an essay where he was somewhat more careful (but that was of course prior to the coup):

Egypt: What Happened?

Although there were rumors that Ahmed Shafeeq won more votes, the SCAF chose to announce Morsy's victory, probably to avoid consequences similar to what happened in Algeria slightly more than 20 years ago, when a civil war broke out after the Algerian president cancelled the results of the parliamentary elections when they seemed to be overwhelmingly in favour of the Islamists. It is rumored that in case Ahmed Shafeeq were to be announced as victorious, a violence would have exploded all over Egypt.

In the recent article Michael Youssof quotes a piece by Haggy. It is not a direct translation and the original is probably written in Arabic, so I cannot find it - in other words take it with a pinch of salt until the purported original author stands by it. However, I have posted word document below this post. It contains a few interesting points.