Daily Inspiration Quote by Hosni Mubarak

“Sharon is capable of making peace” lands like a carefully placed diplomatic stone: small, blunt, and meant to ripple outward. Coming from Hosni Mubarak, the Arab world’s most durable broker of the post-1979 order, it’s less endorsement than calibration. Mubarak isn’t vouching for Ariel Sharon’s softness; he’s asserting Sharon’s capacity for a hard, enforceable deal. Peace, in this register, isn’t a moral awakening. It’s a security arrangement strongmen can sell to skeptical publics and restless militaries.

The subtext is triangular. To Israel, Mubarak signals: Egypt can work with even your most hawkish leader, so don’t claim there’s “no partner.” To Palestinians and the wider Arab street, he implies: if peace fails, blame won’t automatically stick to Israel’s leader alone; the region’s leaders also have agency and obligations. To Washington, it’s a nudge that U.S. leverage can still produce movement if it treats Sharon as a negotiator rather than a caricature.

Context matters: Sharon, long associated with aggressive settlement expansion and the 1982 Lebanon war, was widely viewed as the opposite of a peacemaker. Mubarak’s line tries to puncture that fatalism without absolving Sharon’s record. It’s rhetorical jujitsu: redefining “capable” as the only standard that matters in realpolitik. By lowering the bar from virtue to possibility, Mubarak makes diplomacy survivable in a region where leaders often need plausible deniability as much as they need agreements.