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Press TV has conducted an interview with Mark Glenn, Crescent and Cross Solidarity Movement, Idaho, about the issue of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hopes of the new Egypt leadership. 

- These are some very rare remarks coming from Netanyahu. What do you make of it, first of all?

- Well, the first thought that comes to mind is, if there is this inherent instability around Islamic movements and Islamic governments. Then how do we explain the fact that Iran since 1979 - the same year that Egypt signed the peace treaty with Israel - Iran has not gone through these kinds of tumultuous uprisings that we have seen take place in the last two and a half years in countries including Egypt and Tunisia.

So, Netanyahu’s remarks in and of themselves I think are just self-serving. This is just meant to pour more fire on the anti-Islamic hysteria that has gripped much of the Western world.

But more than that though I think we have to understand that everything Benjamin Netanyahu says is geared towards politicizing with the final intention being, Israel becoming the dominant power in the Middle East.

So when he’s talking about the hope that he has that things in Egypt will get better economically we have to remember that lying is his native tongue and that what he’s saying in effect is that he doesn’t want to see things in Egypt get better, he wants to see them deteriorate because as long as Israel is living in a neighborhood where all of her surrounding neighbors are unstable and in a state of chaos then Israel comes out of it smelling like a rose.

So, again this is just typical Zionist politicizing from Benjamin Netanyahu. Obviously we cannot take his remarks seriously because we have as I said the contradiction to his statement, which is the Islamic Republic of Iran - probably the most stable of all the Middle Eastern countries and has been that way now for 33 years.

- Also Netanyahu expressed hope that Egypt’s new leaders may restore contacts with Israel. How do you see the new leadership in Egypt moving henceforth when it comes to Israel?

- Netanyahu is not interested in talking with Egypt. He wants to see things between Israel and Egypt break down so that he has a corpus vile for launching military actions in regaining the Sinai, which Israel was forced to give up at the 1979 Camp David Accords.

So the new leadership in Egypt was put in there because Morsi was becoming friendly with Iran, he was becoming friendly with Russia; he was making noises about refusing money from the West and instead joining the BRIC Summit; he was insisting upon Iran being a part of the peace process regarding Syria; and he was absolutely against any foreign military intervention on the part of NATO vis-a-vis Syria.

So, Morsi’s departure has not worried Netanyahu or Washington one bit; and all of the platitudes and statements that they have made to that effect have to be seen as more theatrics on the part of these war mongering powers.