Egypt

NOVANEWS     By Ramzy Baroud “Just listen to that roar,” urged a CNN correspondent in Egypt, as thousands of Egyptian protesters charged, fists pumped, against hundreds of armed Egyptian security forces. What a roar it was, indeed. The protests have shown the world that Arabs are capable of much more than merely being pitiable statistics of unemployment and illiteracy, or powerless subjects of ‘moderate’ but ‘strong’ leaders (an acronym for friendly dictators). The times are changing, and British MP George Galloway’s comment about the Arab lion roaring again seems truer by the day. The Egyptians have revolted in style, and their revolution will go down in history books with such adjectives as “great”, “noble” and “historic”.   Truth be told, Arabs have had their fair share of conjured ‘re...

NOVANEWS   By Gilad Atzmon It was the moral force of non-violence” stated President Obama in his first comment on the revolution in Egypt. Yet it is far from being clear who was the Egyptian Mandela, Gandhi, or Martin Luther King? I guess that in Cairo it was the people themselves who peacefully transformed their own reality. Jerusalem, Zionists, and some elements within the Left have demonised Arabs, Muslims and Islam for decades. Yet the people of Egypt just proved how restrained and peace-seeking Islam is for real. Unlike some of our blood soaked Western revolutions, in Cairo millions of Muslims waited for 18 days for their tyrant to internalise the message. Day after day, they stood in the streets demonstrating patience and determination; five times a day they joined mass prayers for ...

NOVANEWS by Adam Morrow   CAIRO, Feb 13, 2011 (Veterans Today) – Just after midnight on Friday, January 28, following three days of popular demonstrations calling for the ouster of longstanding Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, Internet access (along with mobile-phone communications) in Cairo, Alexandria and the northern canal city of Suez — where demonstrations were most intense — was abruptly cut. The Internet remained inaccessible for the next three days. Now reports have emerged in the Hebrew- and Arabic-language press that the Mubarak regime had sought Israel’s help in imposing the Internet blackout. On February 9, Egyptian Arabic-language news website Youm al-Sabea, citing reports in Hebrew-language daily Yedioth Ahronoth published the same day, asserted that the Egyptian regime had...

NOVANEWS   This uprising in Egypt has exposed the fallacy of a lot of arguments and political convictions and at the same time revealed new surprising findings. By Dr. Ashraf Ezzat Mubarak - Netanyahu  As I was driving my car along the famed corniche of the historic city of Alexandria to join the march calling for Mubarak to step down last week I kept looking- or gazing if you like- at the nearly empty streets except from now and then scattered armed vehicles and tanks squatted beneath the silent buildings on the side of the road and it seemed as if I was driving across a deserted city and not the never go to sleep 5 millions dwellers-city I used to know. Even when I was engulfed by the enthusiastic thousands in the demonstrations I kept staring at the faces all around me asking myself ar...

The revolution is coming… one truckload at a time Posted: Sunday, February 13, 2011 In a press conference last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and   Quartet Representative Tony Blair announced a new package of measures aimed   towards, in Blair's words, improving "the conditions and living standards of the   Palestinian people" and in Bibi's, "enhancing stability". This on the backdrop of   instability in Egypt as well as the closing of Rafah and reduced activity in the tunnels.   What do the measures Bibi and Blair announced mean in real terms for Palestinian   residents of Gaza?   The new measures promised are welcome and important for Gaza's struggling private   sector and the population at large. The changes in access policies seen since the June   20th ...

NOVANEWS Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11799.shtml Egyptians protest at Tahrir Square on the day Mubarak left office, 11 February. (Matthew Cassel) Yesterday evening, after it was announced that Hosni Mubarak had met the first demand of the revolution and left office, I headed toward the Egyptian embassy in Amman. The joy on the streets was something I had never experienced before. From all directions people came, pouring out of cars stuck in gridlocked traffic on Zahran Street and into the side street where the embassy sits. They were young and old and families with children. Egyptian laborers -- the unacknowledged back bone of much of the Jordanian economy -- sang, carried each other on their shoulders and played drums. Egyptian flags wave...

NOVANEWS modernityblog    The problems of Egypt go beyond a single President or his VP. And the rot goes much deeper, just considering two aspects should make that clear, State violence and economic power. Violence against ordinary Egyptians has been a fact of life from before the time of Sadat's repression in the 1970s/80s. There have been decades of violence, censorship and State interference. Most economic changes since the 1970s have benefited a very small minority of rich Egyptian families, the military, security services and their allies. Fixing Egypt, and offering ordinary Egyptians a taste of freedom and more importantly a degree of financial security, is going to be very difficult. I do not see it succeeding without a real and concious process of wealth distribution...

NOVANEWS   In the end, they leave, with hollow eyes and a few plain words. Stripped of their ill-gotten power, they are miserable, ashen, and base. All of the rhetoric they spewed lingers like a bad smell, soon to evaporate in the fresh air of freedom. "The Egyptian people still need to develop a culture of democracy. Their grievances are economic, not political. The ruling party won a sweeping victory. The extremists are going to take over. The government supports limited income groups. Police torture is just a few individual cases. The constitutional amendments strengthen democracy." Today, all of that is over. How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished.

NOVANEWS    Egyptian Zionist Hosni Mu-barak finally stepped down and handed power to the Pro-Zionist military, according to the country’s Vice-President Zionist Omar Suleiman. It comes after more than two weeks of mass uprisings and protests in the country, which has been accompanied by a wave of violent clashes between pro and anti government protesters, resulting in the deaths of 300 protesters. “The people are determined to get every member of this current brutal Regime out…” are the implications for the rest of the Middle East?When asked what “…well when the people lead, their leaders better listen…or they will become irrelevant…” A solemn warning to all dictators out there who think Might is Right, ‘Today the Power is with the People,’.

NOVANEWS The will of the people is bound to prevail. By Dr. Ashraf Ezzat  Thousands of Egyptians demanding that Mubarak steps down. History has always shown us that people are seldom seen dreaming like one, thinking like one, aspiring to one goal and acting like one for all, and all for one. We had many fictions and fairly tales that celebrated such oneness but we had very few realities on the ground. Years and even centuries would pass by before any group of people could be united in heart and mind, before they could start realizing that they can and will make things change according to their true will … and before they believe that they can achieve magical moments with no need for crystal ball. Millions of people can’t be wrong. Millions of people can’t do wrong Millions of people can...