(Jerusalem Post) Zvi Mazel - The Egyptian president is hard at work charting a new foreign policy to create a powerful Islamic front in the Middle East to implement the Muslim Brotherhood's goals. As one of his advisers, Dr. Mohammed Asmat Seif Al Dawla, told al-Sharq al-Awsat last week, Egypt's new foreign policy will be grounded in "the new Egypt freeing itself from any hegemony or influence from a foreign country." He said that during the Mubarak years the U.S. was dictating Egypt's policy. "This is no longer possible," he said. While the "Arab Spring" made it possible for the Muslim Brotherhood to rise to power in a number of important countries, it also led to the awakening of militant Salafist movements which are likely to hamper the Brotherhood's effort to impose Shari'a rule gradually. The writer, a fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, is a former ambassador to Romania, Egypt and Sweden.
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