# Why so much speculation regarding Israel?

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**Created:** [February 3, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-much-speculation-regarding-israel/570056 "2011-02-03T19:07:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![AshenLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@AshenLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AshenLady)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-much-speculation-regarding-israel/570056/41 "2011-02-05T22:25:32Z")

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Well, IF Egyptians want to overthrow their government for the sake of taking it on with Israel or any other countries, then they are more stupid than anyone is giving them credit for and they shall truly be doomed to live in abject poverty. I was hoping that freedom and their standard of living was the important stuff.

I don’t have any reason to believe this as of yet, but time will tell.

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**Author:** ![wmfellows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@wmfellows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wmfellows)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-much-speculation-regarding-israel/570056/42 "2011-02-05T22:38:35Z")

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??? In watching this over the days, protesters have said fuck all about Israel, not a single person interviewed that I caught said anything about Israel, it was all about being fed up with Mubarak, corruption and that sort of thing. For someone who opened a thread complaining about ‘speculation about Israel’ is rather seems the speculation is mostly from you.

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**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-much-speculation-regarding-israel/570056/43 "2011-02-05T22:40:16Z")

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The causes if the current trouble in Egypt are reasonably clear. They are not taking on Mubarak in order to go to war with Israel, but war with Israel at worst, and a strengthening if Hamas at “best” may very well be the unintended consequence.

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**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-much-speculation-regarding-israel/570056/44 "2011-02-08T05:30:08Z")

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> [@xtisme](#):
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> Because Israel and Egypt have been at peace for a long time, and Israel (and others) are concerned that if there is a change in regime, the new regime might be less inclined towards peace than the current one is. Saudi is not a neighbor of Egypt, and doesn’t have a history of conflict with Egypt, so what they think is less relevant at this point.
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> -XT

Saudi Arabia actually does have a [recent history of conflict with Egypt](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Yemen_Civil_War).

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