Eli Lake on what a post-Mubarak regime might mean for Israel and the Palestinians:One of the services Mubarak provided as an American client was to train and supply the Palestinian preventive security services [on the West Bank]. I don't think a new Egyptian government would withdraw from the peace treaty with Israel. It's hard to govern Egypt, provoking a war with Israel would be suicidal. The Muslim Brotherhood leadership would always talk about the peace treaty in terms of a referendum for the Palestinian people. But I don't think it would want the Egyptian security services enmeshed with Hamas' enemies in the West Bank. What's more I doubt the next Egyptian government would enforce a blockade of Gaza.
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