By Slavoj Zizek.
''The inevitable conclusion to be drawn is that the rise of radical Islamism was always the other side of the disappearance of the secular left in Muslim countries.''
And vice versa, I must say. The fact that the Muslim brotherhood concerned itself with policing the private lives and conduct of egyptians while neglecting social justice made this movement and other islamist movements in Egypt irrelevant...
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Mubarak for president! Of Israel...
Well, he may end up exiled in Israel. This is where he will be most understood and protected and he can still be valuable for them as he was as president of Egypt.
Sophia,
I believe our [freedom loving people] moment has come. It won’t be long now before t’shitty country will soon be begging to make these ‘concessions’ (cough!)on their knees. They don’t like the TSS, reject the OSS, maybe it’s time to think of the Solution Minus Usrael… As As’ad AbuKhalil wrote (paraphrasing from memory): ‘when Israel will be gone, all will be well’. And non-racist Jews will be welcome in the Arab world, I’m sure of it.
Meanwhile life feels like it’s never been better: to see ‘Meircan dignitaries’ crap their panties on prime time TV is just too priceless. How the Evil Empire (no irony here) is showing itself to be the Emperor with No Clothes On, as per usual…
Gert,
I am not jubilant yet. The forces against democracy in the ME are numerous and powerful, internal and external. But the fact that US policies in the ME are being invalidated by people on the street who are revealing the double language and the double standards and the hypocrisy of these policies, that seems to me quite an achievement by itself.
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