The sound and fury of yesterday’s reporting from Egypt on the guilty verdict against three members of the Al Jazeera English staff has abated a bit. Good thing. We have a much clearer picture of what is really going on in Egypt from the BBC’s Mohammed Yehia. He explains that there is a highly-inflamed relationship between the new Egyptian government and that of Qatar, which owns Al Jazeera. For right or wrong, the Egyptian army views Al Jazeera as the mouthpiece for the Muslim Brotherhood. The truth or otherwise of this belief doesn’t justify what was done to the three journalists but it makes the context much clearer. It may also remind us of what many people in the West think about Al Jazeera, which is not much. There is further word today the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, will not reverse the court’s decision but will consider a pardon of the men once the appeals are exhausted. This is certainly second best but a hope nonetheless.