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lördag, januari 29, 2011

The price Mubarak will have to pay

ISRAEL
Just two days ago, Mideast experts and commentators could not foresee that Egypt could be on the verge of a revolution, and Mubarak's 30-year regime might come to a forced end.
By Avi Issacharoff

January 28, 2011 will go down in the annals of Egyptian history, even though President Hosni Mubarak did not resign (he made it quite clear in his speech on Friday night that he is staying put), and the army deployed Saturday morning in strategic locations around the capital. The regime has not (yet) fallen.

But the “Friday of rage,” which continues with limited use of force and the obvious fact that Egypt is in the throes of a revolution, has not abated. The hundreds of thousands who on Friday night took to the streets of Cairo, Suez, Alexandria, Ismailia, Asyut and more, made it clear that this is end of the era of dictatorship of a faltering state. Revolution, which may end with the reins of power in the hands of the “National Democracy”, even if it seeks to do so, will be forced to deal in a democratic manner with other parties, primarily other leaders, and change the face of Egypt as we know it today.

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