The Mustache of Understanding is making sense but what happened to the retired general at the beginning of the column? Very strange construction. In any case, there seems to be quite a lot of counting-chickens-before-they-roost going on around post-Mubarak Egypt pieces. Let the man leave first. Right now his goons are splitting heads in the streets and taunting Christiane Amanpour.
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With Internet back on, watch for the YouTube videos of ugly scenes in Suez, Alexandria and Cairo. Muslim Brotherhood has the grass roots organization to profit from any form of “democracy.” On the streets the anger targets Mubarak, his inner circle, Jews (Israel) and the U.S. The official media has done its best to censor those scenes from the public in the West. RT Video interview Dennis Kucinich.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
Was that retired general Ehud Barak by any chance?
The problem with the Israeli position is that the Israeli ruling coalition has painted themselves into the corner in domestic politics by allowing the settlements and kowtowing to the settlers’ demands in order to gain power.
And despite the griping about al Jazeera, it is probably better that the Palestinian negotiation information be aired now than after a catastrophe. The Palestinian Authority now has no legitimacy, but Hamas still has legitimacy in Gaza. Any negotiations must include Hamas now.
It really doesn’t matter whether Mubarak goes now or dies of old age. The implications for Israel are the same. And they have been in denial.
BTW, Mubarak’s goon squad made a big mistake in attacking Anderson Cooper. The US media (maybe minus Fox) don’t like it when one of their own is attacked; the spin of this story could turn out to be different than it might have been. It was about time for the media to reverse the narrative question to “Might Mubarak survive?” and begin pointing out the flaws in the opposition coalition. Corporate journalistic whiplash was queued up fairly well yesterday.