With Mubarak gone, 'The Age Of Political Reason Is Returning To The Arab World'

By Tariq Ali.

Sticky Mubarak

He won't go.

The US was first to speak of an 'orderly transition'. I want to scream when I hear this word. 'Orderly' like military maybe...Or 'orderly' like giving Mubarak some time to organize his assets...Or 'orderly' like giving USrael some time to think of an Israel friendly alternative...They won't find it. They only have dictators on their side...

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Either the entire Mubarak power edifice falls down, or the uprising is co-opted and betrayed.

Mubarak's masters are trying to buy time

If Mubarak has any dignity left at all, he should resign now and give the power to the people of Egypt. But he is still listening too much to his Israeli and US masters who want an 'orderly transition'.

His speech today promising not to run for reelection in September is simply made to give the US and Israel more time to influence the process.

Dictators who spend their political life terrifying others are in fact very weak people and, from the beginning, Mubarak, USrael's 'strong' man, showed only his weak side. These people have no compass to guide them through moral dilemmas. After all, they are puppets...

The US is definitely cooking something. Israel is freaking out at the prospect of Egypt without Mubaraks. The interests of the small Israeli nation are at the heart of the US self-suicidal and murderous policy in the region, not the hundred millions of Arabs, not the hundred millions of US citizens.