example – in Egypt it seems to be a mass movement with a purpose.
What's more significant than our little isolated cries of woe which
mostly only fall on our own ears, is how the world – how the
democratic governments worldwide - and the United nations react to
what's happening in Egypt and with Syria and Turkey as the wolves
gather round the hub and rallying point of their passionate
resentment: Israel - which unites then with a common evil purpose.
Should the Palestinians make their UN bid on Monday - as they intend
to do, and should US use their veto as they have promised to do, we
can all watch out for some further fallout & escalation of tensions.
Israel is still the scapegoat. The rabid Islamists say that She is the
cause and not the symptom of their disease. Instead of fixing the
internal turmoil in all those surrounding countries and far away
places like Iran, Israel as much as the Black Stone in Mecca seems to
be the new hub that unites them, gets them to turn away from looking
inside what's going on in their midst to finding an external enemy and
blaming everything on her.
Egypt is now unpredictable and even the the Egyptian soldiers now
patrolling Sinai are a threat to Tel Aviv.
"An' now people just get uglier "
http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/corneliushamelberg/2011/09/10/bridge-over-troubled-waters/
On 10 Sep, 00:39, "Edward Mensah" <dehas...@uic.edu> wrote:
> What benefit will accrue from this chaos? This revolution is devouring its
> kids even before it ends. These images are pathetic and only demonstrate how
> human beings can easily veer off course and degenerate into barbarism. What
> are the benefits of a picture of a noose around the head of Mubarak to the
> Egyptian society? Well, it makes it very difficult for Assad to give up
> power because he may have a noose around his neck if he loses power. You
> do not develop in such chaos.
>
> Kwaku Mensah
>
> Chicago
>
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> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - When Such Chaos Continues, How Do You
> Develop?
>
> Egyptians tear down Israel Embassy's security wall
>
> Photo by AP
>
> Photo by AP
>
> Photo by AP
>
> Photo by AP
>
> Photo by AP
>
> Photo by AP
>
> Photo by AP
>
> September 09, 2011 ? CAIRO (AP) ? Hundreds of Egyptian protesters, some
> swinging hammers and others using their bare hands, tore down parts of a
> graffiti-covered security wall outside the Israeli Embassy in Cairo on
> Friday. Thousands elsewhere protested for the first time in a month against
> the country's military rulers.
>
> Seven months after the popular uprising that drove Mubarak from power,
> Egyptians are still pressing for a list of changes, including more
> transparent trials of former regime figures acused of corruption and a clear
> timetable for parliamentary elections.
>
> Egyptians have grown increasingly distrustful of the Supreme Council of the
> Armed Forces, which took control of the country when Mubarak was forced out
> on Feb. 11 after nearly three decades in power. The council, headed by
> Mubarak's defense minister, Field Marshall Hussein Tantawi, has voiced its
> support for the revolution and those who called for democracy and justice.
>
> But activists accuse it of remaining too close to Mubarak's regime and
> practicing similarly repressive policies, including abusing detainees. The
> trials of thousands of civilians in military courts has also angered
> activists.
>
> "In the beginning we were with the military because they claimed to be
> protectors of the revolution, but month after month nothing has changed,"
> said doctor Ghada Nimr, one of those who gathered in Tahrir Square.
>
> One banner in Cairo read, "Egyptians, come out of your homes, Tantawi is
> Mubarak." Outside the Israeli Embassy, protesters for the second time in
> less than a month pulled down the Israeli flag from atop the 21-story
> building.
>
> Egyptian security forces did not intervene as crowds climbed up the
> embassy's security wall, pummeling it with sledge hammers and tearing away
> large sections of the cement and metal barrier, which was recently put up to
> better protect the property from protests.
>
> Protesters set fire to a police truck outside the embassy and tried to
> attack a nearby police station but were turned back by the military. Since
> Mubarak's fall, calls have grown in Egypt for ending the historic 1979 peace
> treaty with Israel, a pact that has never had the support of ordinary
> Egyptians. Anger increased last month after Israeli forces responding to a
> cross-border militant attack mistakenly killed five Egyptian police officers
> near the border.
>
> Protesters marched to the embassy from Cairo's Tahrir Square, where
> thousands more demonstrated against Egypt's ruling generals. Demonstrators
> in Cairo also converged on the state TV building, a central courthouse and
> the Interior Ministry, a hated symbol of abuses by police and security
> forces under Mubarak. Protesters covered one of the ministry's gates with
> graffiti and tore off parts of the large ministry seal.
>
> Protests also took place in Alexandria, Suez and several other cities. Up to
> 90 people were injured, including one in a coma, the Health Ministry said.
> About 850 people were killed in the early days of the Jan. 25-Feb. 11
> uprising. Tantawi is scheduled to testify in Mubarak's trial in closed
> sessions that begin Sunday. The 83-year-old Mubarak is on trial on charges
> of complicity in the deaths of protesters, a charge that could bring the
> death penalty.
>
> The judge in the trial banned TV cameras from the courtroom during this
> week's sessions, and starting Sunday the proceedings will be closed to the
> media and the public. The lack of transparency in trials of members of
> Mubarak's inner circle has angered many in Egypt.
>
> "These are all practices of the old regime: repression and restriction on
> freedoms," said Cairo protester Khaled Abdel-Hamid. Ali Mustafa Ali, who
> traveled from the northern Sinai peninsula to participate in Friday's
> protest in Cairo, said he is most angered by the trials of thousands of
> civilians in military courts, many of them political activists facing years
> in jail.
>
> Ali said the military must also show they are serious about a transition to
> civilian rule by announcing a clear schedule for parliamentary elections.
> "The military council's politics are not clear. It seems they are trying to
> stay in control and not hand over power to civilians," he said.
>
> The council has not set an exact date for the elections, but they are
> expected to take place in October or November. The Muslim Brotherhood, which
> has the ability to mobilize scores of protesters, did not take part in
> Friday's protests. Spokesman Essam El-Arian said the group, which was
> outlawed under Mubarak, is in support of the military's promises to hold
> elections sometime this year.
>
> "These demands take time and can only be carried out by an elected
> government," said El-Arian.
>
> _____
>
> Associated Press writer Sarah El Deeb in Cairo contributed to this report.
>
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