“The main positive aspect of the Egyptian vote from an Israeli point of view has to do with the Egyptian government becoming more democratic and more transparent than ever before. History shows that states boasting democratic regimes do not rush to declare war on each other. This fact has many reasons, among them the fact that democratic governments must be accountable to the people.

Hence, we can assume that should Egypt maintain a democratic process, more or less, the risk of an all-out war with Cairo will decline. However, this rule of thumb is mostly valid in the long run, and there is no certainty that Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood will adopt Turkey’s Islamist model, rather than an Iran-style theocracy.”