2011/02/01

The Egyptian Masses Won't Play Ally to Israel!!

As long as the "masses" in Egypt and in the entire Arab world continue seeing the images of tyranny and violence from the occupied territories, Israel will not be accepted, even if it is acceptable to a few regimes. Gideon Levy writes in "Haaretz", Three or four days ago, Egypt was still in our hands. The army of pundits, including Israel's top expert on Egypt, Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, said that "everything is under control," that Cairo is NOT Tunis, and that Mubarak is strong. Ben-Eliezer said that he had spoken on the phone with a senior Egyptian official, and he assured me that "there's nothing to worry about". Now, you can count on Fuad and Hosni soon to become has-beens. On Friday night, everything changed. It turned out that the Israeli intelligence estimates, which were recited ad nauseum by the court analysts (read "court jesters"), were again, shall we say, not the epitome 0f accuracy. The people of Egypt had their say, and had the nerve NOT to fall in line with Israeli wishes. A moment before Mubarak's fate is sealed, the time has come for drawing the Israeli conclusions. What has happened is Not a plague of darkness in Egypt, but the light of the eternal Nile! As the ancient Romans used to say: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi, translated as "Thus goes the glory of our world".

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