The leadership is scheming, refusing to release political prisoners or investigate the stolen billions of Mubarak. And Omar Suleiman, the torturer in chief loved by America and Israel, remains a very powerful figure. Some Arabic media translated here and here.
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Only an Israeli or American openly boasts about crimes
Jewish American blogger Richard Silverstein has the news: Haaretz has just published a story that will certainly disappear due to gag order. … In it, Anshel Pfeffer writes that Gabi Ashkenazi prepared a video celebrating his achievements as chief of staff, which was screened at a party marking his final day on the job. … What is…
ABCTV News 24 on Egypt and Wikileaks
I was a guest on last night’s ABCTV News 24’s The Drum alongside Sue Cato and the Daily Telegraph’s Joe Hilderbrand (video here). One of the main areas of discussion was the Egyptian revolution and just how good it felt. I argued that it was vital for us in the West to understand that Egypt’s…
No peace treaty ever told Egypt to banish Arabs
Ali Abunimah is spot on: On many minds — especially Israeli and American ones — has been the question of whether a new democratic Egyptian government will tear up the 1979 peace treaty with Israel. That of course, is up to the Egyptian people, although the transitional military government confirmed in its fourth statement Egypt’s…
Guess what Israel; Egyptians don’t really care about maintaining Zionism
Haaretz editorial is right: The dramatic change over the border naturally gives rise to fears, but Israel must not interfere in its southern neighbor’s affairs. Egypt has no conflict with Israel and must not be presented as an enemy. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must demonstrate restraint and self-control. His warnings that Egypt could turn into…
That rare Israeli voice welcoming Egyptian freedom
From Gideon Levy in Haaretz, of course: At 6 A.M. yesterday, shortly before dawn in Cairo, Al Jazeera correspondent correspondent, Jacky Rowland, described the massive street party happening around her as “the hangover of the revolution.” The big words are being taken out of storage. They are still wrapped in a plethora of fears and…
New Wikileaks cable; US pledged to help human rights in Egypt
Of course, funding a brutal dictator such as Mubarak to the tune of billions of dollars annually rather contradicts this easy pledge. An early 2010 cable: CLASSIFIED BY: Margaret Scobey, Ambassador; REASON: 1.4(B), (D) …¶1. Key Points: — (C) In meetings January 13-14, A/S Posner told activists and opposition politicians that the U.S. is seeking…
Perhaps Zionist writer didn’t get memo on Mubarak
Seriously, has the man spent any time with average people in Egypt? Zvi Bar’el in Haaretz: I don’t know whether President Mubarak was hated personally as much as the regime was despised.
And we can dream that Palestine will be truly free
Gideon Levy in Haaretz reminds us that the struggle there for independence from Zionist occupation may take a little longer but justice is on the right side: This week, Jenin’s wonderland was to be found in Egypt. Residents of the refugee camp closely followed events in the land of the Nile, in a mood of…
What decades of US/Israeli rule has done to the Arab world
Tariq Ali: The age of political reason is returning to the Arab world. The people are fed up of being colonised and bullied. Meanwhile, the political temperature is rising in Jordan, Algeria and Yemen.