Egypt-day of protest

[Tangled up in Blue]

There's some interesting stuff going on in North Africa.Could this signal some sort of transition to real democractic change in the region ,I wonder?

http://gu.com/p/2mymt

 

[osymandus]

WEll the Yeman and of course troubles in Iran have been going on a while . Was watching GMT on BBC2 yesterday and there is a movement to shift the old power bases ... to to any extremists models as peopel just want jobs and ... well more liberal freedoms they are fed up with being told what to do when . Be interesting to see what happens

 

[Cricko]

Well with Mubarak now refusing to step down, how do you see this resolving itself?

 

[osymandus]

The army are very much starting to support the protesters so it could get very intresting.

 

[Rob Noxious]

Well with Mubarak now refusing to step down, how do you see this resolving itself?

War in a Babylon? :'(

 

[Cricko]

I was amazed to see Israel backing Mubarak and saying there is no hurry for change, baring in mind how in bed they are with the Americans.

 

[Rob Noxious]

I was amazed to see Israel backing Mubarak and saying there is no hurry for change, baring in mind how in bed they are with the Americans.

The devil they know to retain the status quo. :sherlock:

I fear it could be down down, deeper and down though.

 

[canveyshrimper]

I was amazed to see Israel backing Mubarak and saying there is no hurry for change, baring in mind how in bed they are with the Americans.

Mubarak was Sadat's deputy when Egypt & Israel agreed on peace 20 odd years ago, so I'm not overly surprised about that. Also the Americans have heavily backed Egypt over the years.

What Israel will be concerned about is a new government of Islamic fundementalists taking charge in Egypt. There's a few countries in the area that may be ripe for change, and they all appear to have the same thing in common a long serving president. Yemen is seeing people on the streets, change has already happened in Tunisia, and it could happen in Algeria & Morocco. Oddly the most stable looking country in the North Africa region appears to be Libya, although I would have thought that after 42 years Col Gadaffi may have got a promotion by now.