This is shocking but not surprising.

1. Karl Vick at Time Magazine reports:

[Israeli minister:] “I’m not sure the time is right for the Arab region to go through the democratic process.” The minister, who spoke on condition of not being identified by name or portfolio, cites the Gaza Strip as a signal warning of the risk that comes with asking the people what they want. … Arab societies demand “a longer term democratization process,” one accompanied by education reforms that would encourage the election of moderates. “You can’t make it with elections, especially in the current situation where radical elements, especially Islamist groups, may exploit the situation,” he says. “It might take a generation or so.

2. Barry Rubin, a multifarious neoconservative, writes

Remember the Iranian revolution when all sorts of people poured out into the streets to demand freedom? Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is now president. Remember the Beirut spring when people poured out into the streets to demand freedom? Hizballah is now running Lebanon. Remember the Palestinians having free elections? Hamas is now running the Gaza Strip. Remember democracy in Algeria? Tens of thousands of people were killed in the ensuing civil war. It doesn’t have to be that way but precedents are pretty daunting.

3. Eli Clifton at Lobelog does a great rundown of neocon talking points on Egypt: