The newly-elected Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, did Benjamin Netanyahu and Shimon Peres a favor for in not inviting them to his swearing-in ceremony. Until the tensions in Egypt, and in fact the entire Arab world, calm down, Israel must keep a low political profile in its relations with Cairo.

This should not only be done with the new regime in Egypt, but in Israel’s relations with all countries in the region, some of which we converse with behind closed doors.

Israel should be open to taking advantage of the opportunities created by the “Arab Spring” to nurture and develop good relations with its neighbors, while at the same time not overly identify with one of them.

In the current state of affairs, if Jerusalem’s relationship with an Arab regime or organization, with which we seek to establish an infrastructure of understandings and cooperation, is overly visible, it is liable to hamper the move.

It is damaging for us in both the international arena and the regional arena to be identified with this or that regime in the Arab world, as long as the dust still hasn’t settled over the regional upheaval.

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