With Hosni Mubarak gone, the U.S. has to negotiate with Egypt now. Worse yet for the U.S., Egypt won't help the U.S. to remain the dominant power with Israel in Middle East. The Arab Springs brought a new reality in the region where Egypt, Turkey and Iran have shown that they cannot remain in the sidelines of the U.S./Israeli dominance anymore. Let's not forget that the U.S. had declared Hamas a "terrorist organization" and calls Iran who recognizes Hamas "a terrorist supporting state!" But the U.S. doesn't dare to call Egypt and Turkey -who also recognize Hamas- "terrorist supporting states, not it dared to rebuke Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan, who called Israel "a terrorist state!"

The apparent show of smooth cooperation between the U.S. and Egypt in the Gaza crisis is the typical phony facade of "diplomatic protocol!" Behind the facade of friendly co-operation, the relations between the U.S. and Egypt are similar to the relations between the U.S. and Pakistan. Friendly publicly; hostile behind the scenes.

Let's not forget that the U.S. had forced Mubarak to lock Mr. Mursi in prison for years, to prevent the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood from turning Egypt into another Iran! Mr. Mursi now represents the Egyptian Revolution whose purpose was to throw the U.S. yoke off Egypt, and he certainly won't serve the U.S. and Israeli interests as Mubarak did! The U.S. and Egypt "agree to disagree" on all Middle East matters, but "agree" not to spill openly their disagreements! Nikos Retsos, retired professor