Fallout

Salama Ahmed Salama, one of Egypt's most prestigious and influential columnists, in a recent (23 July, sorry no link) Al Ahram editorial:

Egypt should adopt the same policy as Iran with regards to acquiring new military technology, notably nuclear weapons, in order to prevent Israeli threats, which are constantly getting worse.

Strategically speaking, can you say he's wrong? Incidentally Salama has been going around this issue cautiously for weeks while commenting on the Iran nuclear crisis, but I think this is his most frank statement so far.