Al Jazeera reports that Mubarak is to flee to Israel
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January 30, 2011 at 11:49am
While that cretin Muscat can’t expand his tiny mind beyond picking up the tourism dregs of a very serious crisis, here is some ‘oh my God’ news.
Al Jazeera reports now that, according to sources at the Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel is making preparations to receive Hosi Mubarak into exile, after Saudi Arabia, which is already hosting the Ben Ali and Trabelsi families, rejected his overtures.
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Good riddance
Not quite. He’ll still be in the neighbourhood. And as Israel’s security is so heavily invested in Mubarak – as opposed to Egypt – the security situation in the Mediterranean will change.
I doubt Israel’s particularly happy about hosting Saudi Arabia’s reject (apparently Mubarak’s been refused a safe haven there) so it seems he’s making demands that Israel cannot refuse.
Whatever the explanation, it’s naive to imagine that it really is ‘good riddance’ and nothing more.
Sorry Hot Mama, for having to comment on your comments once again. But ‘good riddance’ as opposed to whom?
Who is welcome in Egypt following the exit of Mubarak? This same evening, while Elbaradei was in Tahrir square delivering an address to some followers, other people in the square were giving him the thumbs down.
The Muslim Brotherhood are making a comeback. I find the options to Mubarak more worrying, to say the least, than Mubarak’s relatively benign regime. Imagine a regime ruling Egypt as that of Ahmadinejad in Iran.
Relatively benign regime? You have no idea do you?
Apart from the human tragedy problem, the questions that worry me most are: who will be the leaders in these countries following the overthrow of these dictators, and how will this affect us directly and indirectly, seeing that commodity prices usually go up whenever there is unrest?
Għandhom post għal Gonzi?
Fil-fatt, Gonzi sejjer fl-ewwel ta’ Marzu, bhala kap ta’ delegazzjoni minn Malta. Jekk Muscat jixtieq jiddeffes, forsi jista jiehdu fil-bagalja. Wara kollox, dawn muhmiex sejrin bir-RyanAir.
Sorry, ħsibt li JPO il-kap bħalissa.
[Daphne – Dak li jigrilek meta tisma lis-Super One biss, habib.]
For your sake, I hope you never find out what living under a dictatorship is really like. You might try asking your nearest Egyptian.
Gonzi sejjer bhala kap ta’ gvern ta’ stat u mhux bil-mohbi bhal Mubarak jew bhal Joseph Muscat kif ghamel meta mar Dubai bil-habi imdawwar b’xi kuntratturi.
L-istorbju fl-Egittu ifakkarna f’Tal-Barrani, per ezempju, u Gonzi m’ghandux minn x’hix jahrab ghax il-partit tieghu rega rebah lura id-demokrazija u l-liberta li konna tlifna taht gvernijiet Laburisti.
Nahseb jien li l-Laber ahjar jixtri blokk appartamenti x’imkien iehor li fihom jistghu jghixu Karmenu Vella, Sceberras Trigona, KMB u Sant u fi ftit snin ohra Joseph ghax minn hemm ghad jghaddi bhal ta’ qablu.
Kapijiet tal-Partit Nazzjonalista meqjumin f’Hall of Fame. Il-kapijiet tal-Lejber imdendlin f’Hall of Shame.
Għandek żball, Daphne. L-ebda stazzjon ma nisma’ għax it-tnejn itellgħuli l-istonku. Għalija l-istazzjonijiet politiċi jistgħu ma jeżistux.
U l-ebda partit ma sirt nafda. Kont u vvutajt PN kemm ili li ħadt il-vot, imma bħalissa disilluż ferm bit-tmexxija tal-partit. Għalija tilef is-sens ta’ direzzjoni.
Mela x’wasslek biex tghid li JPO kap, forsi smajt fuq is-Smash jew il-Favorite Channel? Jew iffurmajt l-opinjoni int wahdek mil-kelma l’hawn u kelma l’hinn li smajt u ghaqqad storja sabiha, prosit ghalik hejn kemm taf tpasparhom.
Meanwhile, Rachid Gannouchi, leader of Tunisia’s Islamist opposition, returns home after 22 years in exile. I told you this would turn nasty.
You’re absolutely right, Baxxter. Militant islamism just goes from strength to strength. I wonder if Europe will survive it in the long (I mean about 300 – 500 years) run?
Don’t be foolish. You are assuming that Islamist is a synonym for Wahhabi or Salafi, which is just not the case.
Islamic parties are simply an every day reality in many Muslim countries. Because they can often credibly claim to uphold standards of probity in countries where corruption proliferates (such as Egypt) and trade on a message of order and morality that is easily understandable to the broad population, they are highly popular.
What should be worrying is when such parties begin to argue for jettisoning democracy, but there is scant evidence that will be the case. In fact, my hunch is that forces like Muslim Brotherhood could prove successful in open electoral contests, but that the secular pull will be sufficient to mitigate their influence.
Instead of needlessly demonizing Islamic parties, the West needs to understand that they can form part of a healthy and economically robust democracy, like Turkey for instance.
I think what has happened, what is happening, across North Africa is exciting and could mark a momentous turning point in world affairs and in the welfare of huge populations. It is a little early for cynicism.
You’re using terminology which has no place in factual commentary. “Demonising”? Who’s demonising whom? I think you’ll find that it is the Islamist parties who tend to demonise the West, i.e. blaming them for all their ills, including poverty, illiteracy, disenfranchisement, and for supporting the old régime.
Exciting it certainly is, but this is no dawning of the Age of Aquarius. You say it is early for cynicism. I say we’ve had more than half a century of this sort of thing, the welfare of huge populations hasn’t visibly improved.
Baxxter, i assume you don’t agree with the term ‘banana republic’ and that the socialist governments in South America were all failures because of their innate incompetence and corruption…
Is it OK for a party to be called Christian Democrat but wrong when it is an Islamist Party? As long as they both respect democracy and human rights, then they are both eligible to form a government.
Here’s some serious journalism with some interesting links:
Mohamed ElBaradei: Globalist Pied Piper Of The Egyptian Revolt – http://www.infowars.com/mohamed-elbaradei-globalist-pied-piper-of-the-egyptian-revolt/
Here is an eye-opening analysis on the situation from Stratfor’s George Friedman:
http://www.speroforum.com/a/47584/The-end-of-Mubarak-Democracy-or-Disaster
http://www.stratfor.com/theme/egypt-unrest
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=205833&newsletter=300111&utm_source=Pulseem&ut
Yeah, right — under law of return. his real name is Moshe Bnai Barak and he has been Mossad all along.
And Barack Obama is named for Ehud Barak.