How about those Riots in Egypt!?!?
That's certainly a possible outcome, but I wonder how a Fatah led state on the West Bank would cope with the internal fallout from leaving Gaza behind.
If a substantial deal on Jerusalem came with the bargain, who knows?
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It is the people of Egypt, really. The economy and unemployment were getting awful specially among the more educated because they couldn't find jobs for their qualifications. Stop fantasizing about Iran or Syria or Hamas (LOL!) being that powerful or that united (LOL!). Foreign money can't buy millions of protesters, if Iran had such enormous amounts of money, they wouldn't need control over Egypt.
It is true that the currently horribly disorganized protests will probably be hijacked by someone. But seriously, it is no time to speculate whom will eventually manage to get advantage of it. For what we know, it is equally likely that a US puppet will take over as it is of a crazy Muslim. Or perhaps a crazy US puppet Muslim, who knows?...
Mubarak may have been a tyrant, but what is he being replaced with? Sometimes, truly, it is, "better the devil you know."
Sometimes I wonder if this is what you US war nuts actually want to happen.
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The people are waking up. I set the alarm clocks.
No one even said any of those things in this thread, so stop taking every specific issue as an opportunity to dump your truck load of contempt for the right wing. They're standing up and refusing to be shafted by tyranny, so I wish nothing but the best for em. s**t does everything have to degenerate into political scapegoating?
No one said those things? I quoted the OP dude.
I want Mubarak's government to end, it is tyranny and a negative dictatorship. But come to think about it, Mubarak was there for how long? 30 years? The "state of emergency" was there for just as long. There was tyranny in Egypt for decades. The people are rising not because they want freedom, but because of the economic issues. I applaud they are going to take down Mubarak with it, and I love that they may even get a chance to get more democracy. But let us not fool ourselves, they could have taken Mubarak down 25, 20, 15, 10, 5 years ago if they didn't like the tyranny - they didn't . Freedom was not their priority. The main reason they are doing this is the economy, the unemployment has become a huge issue these last years and thus it exploded.
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I'm referring to your smart ass irrelevant rant about the right wing pertaining to a sense of entitlement, apathy, and freedom. Right wingers aren't crows, so don't bother putting up straw men.
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So, if you think this is a rant against the right, maybe you are just projecting your own feelings about the right on my rant.
And the point of my rant was mostly to remind the OP that there are protests and changes of governments every 5 seconds in the third world, and they don't fix anything. The over-optimistic stuff he said about the third world people waking up is too far from reality.
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That's always the problem. Everything has to be about the right or the left, but I don't care. To be honest, I believe that there should be taxes and that people should help each other, and that government should provide health care and education, and I guess for that matter I am in the left when you compare me to an American. But that is not remotely close to the left I have come to known.
If it was for the people in my country, no prices should ever go up (subventions), the government should give them money. No, not welfare, not healthcare, not education, but plain money. And not for disability or anything like that, but for nothing. And of course, the government has to obey, because else protests would take it down. And then, when there is food scarcity because the subsidized prices are so low that the food leaks away of the country since everybody nearby has real world prices and thus it is a lot more profitable to sell stuff outside. They cry and demand more money and more subvention of prices. And this is all due to populist, tyrant governments that climbed up in power because of protests. The third world should stop "waking up" and begin actually working.
And well, this is more about the third world as I know it and not that much about Egypt. From all I have watched so far, (I tried tons of networks from CNN, BBC, Aljazeera and Telesur) every analyst was pointing out to the economy for the main trigger of it. But at least the protesters were asking for actual freedom and the end of tyranny. So, that's an improvement. But I just didn't buy that the third world is waking up or phrases like those the OP said.
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No more than the Iranian protests a few years ago were a setup by Mossad and the CIA.
My take: people genuinely don't like living under a police state. If the the new Egyptian government is anti-western it will be because of our support for their soon to be former dictator rather than them becoming radical islamists. The Iranian Revolution itself was blowback from our support of the autocratic Shah.
My take: people genuinely don't like living under a police state. If the the new Egyptian government is anti-western it will be because of our support for their soon to be former dictator rather than them becoming radical islamists. The Iranian Revolution itself was blowback from our support of the autocratic Shah.
The U.S. has paid dearly and will pay even more for getting rid of Mossidegh back in 1953. That let the Shi'ite djinn out of the bottle. God is Just and His Justice will not be forever denied.
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You guys sound like if you wished there was a war with Israel...
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I have yet to be persuaded that this is an exercise in popular uprising. I am still waiting to see which pots of money are driving this, and what the role of Iran, Syria and Hamas is in all of this.
The potential nightmare scenario is a Hamas-friendly government composed of Muslim Brotherhood supporters who open the border with Gaza, giving Iran relatively free access. The prospects of a Palestinian state will be put back by a decade or more, and the prospect of a shooting war will become significantly advanced.
Mubarak may have been a tyrant, but what is he being replaced with? Sometimes, truly, it is, "better the devil you know."
you're worried about the right thing for the wrong reason.
How do you "bankroll" mobs in the streets?
It obviously is the spontaneous combustion of a home grown real revolt inspired by events in Tunisia and sparked the peasants wanting bread rebelling against a let-em-cake regime.
The question is when that crucial moment comes when the old order is overturned but the new order has yet to form will this revoltion by hijacked by some fanatatical minority who will turn out to be tyrants themselves? Or will it succeed in bringing democracy?
Either outcome is possible.
Both the French Revolution of the 1780's, and the Iranian Revolution of the 1970's were prime examples of the former happening. The fanatical minorities in both cases were home grown and got no help from outsiders.
Once the revolution is underway then possibly outsiders might aid such a fanatical group to hijack the revolution.
However I suspect the Iran would have little influence even (indeed especially) among the most rabid of Egyptian Islamists because Iran is Shiite and Egypt is overwhelmingly Sunni.
For Hamas to comandeer Egypt would be like an opposition group in Haiti taking over the United States even BEFORE they succeeded in taking over Haiti. Your talking about one of two rival political parties in a small Arab nation (Palestine) wielding power over the largest of all Arab nations (Egypt).