The clamor rising from Tahrir Square in Cairo was a common scene, familiar to all and sundry. The masses packing the square were calling out for the resignation of the president and crying for his prosecution on charges of killing demonstrators, while opposition politicians tried to outdo each other denouncing him on satellite TV channels.

However, this time around, it was not deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak who was put in the crosshairs. The calls against the president were heard on Feb. 11 this year, and they were directed at none other than current President Mohammed Morsi. 

Exactly two years after their former president had been overthrown, the Egyptians realized that the revolution they sought to bring about could not be accomplished at a stroke. The struggle against corruption, the promise to bring to justice those accountable for the killing of young people, the expectations for a better economic future have all vanished into thin air. Egypt finds itself at present precisely where it was on the eve of the military coup d'état of February 2011 — possibly even worse off.

The Israelis, who are closely watching the tense situation, seem to miss Mubarak, whom they regarded as a friend. Alas, they are in the wrong. In terms of his concept of peace and his view of Egypt’s relations with Israel, the apparently liberal Mubarak was not much different from his successor in office, Morsi, whose origins originate in the Muslim Brotherhood. An in-depth evaluation of Hosni Mubarak's concept of peace may present him in quite a different light, far removed from the image generally perceived in Israel.