Is Egypt slipping into a state of total confrontation characterized by increasing violence, demonization of the adversary and political escalation, putting conditions and counter-conditions for the return to normalcy? The dynamics of such escalation are reinforced by the lack of a minimal, even indirect, dialogue, because of the absence of a third party to facilitate. Egypt needs such a party, one that commands wide respect and the legitimacy to build bridges between the emerging caretaker regime and the ousted one of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Is Egypt taking the road of the 1954 confrontation between the Muslim Brotherhood and the newly established military regime, or is it taking the more dangerous road of Algeria of the 1990s?
