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Israel mulling Sinai attack?

Posted by seumasach on January 30, 2011

PressTV

30th January, 2011

Like Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, Israeli prime minister and the heads of the Israeli Army are concerned about the current developments in Egypt. Thirty-three years have passed since a peace agreement was inked between Cairo and Tel Aviv and now it could collapse at any moment.

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Israel: Mubarak here to stay

Posted by seumasach on January 29, 2011

PressTV

29th January, 2011

“We believe that Egypt is going to overcome the current wave of demonstrations…,” the unnamed official told Time magazine in an interview, which was published on Friday.

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Thousands protest in Jordan

Posted by seumasach on January 29, 2011

Aljazeera

19th January, 2011

Thousands of people in Jordan have taken to the streets in protests, demanding the country’s prime minister step down, and the government curb rising prices, inflation and unemployment.

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Egypt: US-backed repression is insight for American public

Posted by seumasach on January 29, 2011

Finian Cunningham

Global Research

29th January, 2011

As thousands more Egyptian citizens take to the streets in anti-government protests, the country is in danger of witnessing a bloodbath – at the behest of Washington.

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Israeli embassy staff evacuate Egypt

Posted by seumasach on January 29, 2011

PressTV

29th January, 2011

Israel has pulled its embassy staff out of Egypt as the outpouring of public protest against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s government shows no sign of remission.

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US vice president supports Mubarak

Posted by seumasach on January 29, 2011

29th January, 2011
US Vice President Joe Biden says the time has not come for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to resign despite mass anti-government protests.

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Sleeping giant wakes up in the Arab world

Posted by seumasach on January 28, 2011

Yvonne Ridley

Redress

27th January, 2011

Yvonne Ridley argues that the tide has turned in the Arab world now that the people have breached the fear barrier, and predicts that oppressive and corrupt Arab regimes, which have been propped up by the US and its European allies, will begin to tumble like dominos.

”…the first thing to do is send Air Force One around the region to collect all the dictators, tyrants and despots on the US payroll and take them back to Washington. Like pet poo in New York’s Central Park, you have to take responsibility for your dogs’ mess.” (Yvonne Ridley)

The Arab world’s sleeping giant has finally woken from its slumbers after years of being drugged and mugged by the West.

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New York Times: “Democracy is bad for US foreign policy”

Posted by seumasach on January 28, 2011

Stephen Gowans

Global Research

28th January, 2011

Here’s New York Times reporter Mark Landler on Washington’s reaction to the popular uprising in Egypt against the anti-liberal democratic, human rights-abusing Hosni Mubarak, a “staunch ally.”

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Middle East: the undoing of America’s mendacious foreign policy

Posted by seumasach on January 28, 2011

Finian Cunningham

Global Research

27th January, 2011

 

There may be plumes of acrid smoke rising from burning tyres in cities across the Middle East, but there is the discernible whiff of something else – fear. And it is not so much fear among the tens of thousands of people who are taking to the streets facing down paramilitary police forces in Tunisia, Algeria, Jordan, Egypt and elsewhere to protest against their governments. It is rather more the fear among the rulers of these unwieldy regimes – a fear, or at least grave concern, that must also be seeping into the corridors of power in Washington and other Western capitals.

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Washington facing the ire of the Tunisian people

Posted by seumasach on January 28, 2011

Thierry Meyssan

Voltairenet

25th January, 2011

While western media are celebrating the “Jasmine Revolution”, Thierry Meyssan lays bare the U.S. plan to curb the anger of the Tunisian people and salvage this insconspicuous CIA and NATO backwater base. According to him, the insurrectional process is still ongoing and could rapidly give rise to a real Revolution, to the great dismay of Western capitals.

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The downfall of Mubarak

Posted by seumasach on January 28, 2011

Dr.Ashraf Ezzat

Intifada-Palestine

27th January, 2011

“Without beating around the bush or postponing or playing us for fools and without more false promises, we, the people of Egypt, demand all of our long forgotten rights to be granted and this time there is no turning back … we have learned our lesson …we have finally broken free of all fears
… thus stated a written flier that has been circulating – by banned oppostion -all over major cities of Egypt in thousands of copies on the night before January, 25th or what is now known as the Egyptian day of wrath.

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