for more on egypt and what might happen if there is a regime change there we're joined live by phyllis bennis from the new internationalism project an independent group work that works to challenge u.s. policies in the middle east thank you for joining us ms bennis so the mubarak government has been one of the islamic regimes that's had a close relationship with the u.s. but washington has had to walk a fine line here and has since embrace the revolution what message do you think this sends to other u.s. allies in the region. well i think first of all we need to be very careful how we describe egypt and the regime of hosni mubarak it is not an islamic government this is not an islamic regime it's a country that is majority muslim although there is a a large and significant christian coptic community in egypt as well so we just we need to be a little bit careful because otherwise we slip into making a lot of generalizations that don't necessarily apply i think that what we're seeing here if it remains consistent in action with what we're hearing in the words of the administration it is a recog

while we have more reaction to this and phyllis bennis from the u.s. institute of policy study says that ever forms egypt's next government its policies on the middle east conflict will change. we've heard from a number of people that are in the leadership of this huge coalition that is carrying out the anti mubarak protests who have all said look we're not going to renege on the camp david accords we don't want to go to war with israel we don't want to change that and of course we should note although they don't all talk about it the want to have billion dollars of u.s. military aid is tied directly to the terms of that agreement if the agreement is abrogated they may not get that money what will change is the inclusion of egypt in israel's effort to isolate gaza i think we will see very quickly with any new government if it wants to maintain the credibility of its people and then to egyptian collaboration with israel in the siege of gaza and to have your say about egypt's revolt on our website at r.t. dot com and here are the results of the online vo