Three sharp slaps to Egyptian diplomacy in one day

I bet you will read some­thing sim­i­lar in tomorrow’s Al-Qads Al-Arabi Op-ed. Bari Atwan told Aljazeera that the rea­son behind Egypt’s invi­ta­tion of Euro­peans to Sharm Al-Sheikh exclud­ing the United States, is that Mubarak really humil­i­ated by the U.S. – Israel agree­ment

While Aluf Benn’s arti­cle on Haaretz explains that the cease­fire deci­sion had noth­ing to do with Egypt’s efforts and Peace Ini­tia­tive, Alraynews reported the details of the Egypt­ian humil­i­a­tion call­ing it a trap set for Egypt by Israel saying:

Cairo con­sid­ered the [cease­fire news-leak] is a “trap” set by Israel, to throw the ball to Egypt, in the sense that the con­di­tions that for a cease­fire and with­drawal of Israeli forces are not related to Hamas’ stop the rocket fire, but with the Cairo dec­la­ra­tion of accept­ing the deploy­ment of [for­eign] forces within its borders.

Jor­dan­ian writer Uraib Al-Rantawi tries to be polite call­ing it “shocks” and not “slaps” in his arti­cle “Egypt­ian diplo­macy, three shocks in one day”:

Two slaps from unex­pected sources (Tel Aviv and Wash­ing­ton) and the third from (Doha — Qatar). From U.S. and Israel by sign­ing an agree­ment with­out con­sult­ing Egypt with any sin­gle arti­cle. Third shock “slap” came from Doha, with Gaza’s sol­i­dar­ity Sum­mit which raised the level of the offi­cial Arab polit­i­cal demand, and ends the age of the “big broth­ers” [Saudi Ara­bia and Egypt] dom­i­na­tion on the joint Arab action.