Comments on: Is Something Really Happening in Egypt?

By: Hitman

Hitman — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 21:10:08 +0000

Seems to be a lot of maybe good news coming out of the ME via MEMRI as per this post.

http://heardman.blogspot.com/2004/12/some-light-in-darkness-perhaps.html

By: marek

marek — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:20:59 +0000

omar-masry,

A link please. Lots of people have interesting runs with Juan Cole.

By: omar_masry

omar_masry — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:44:59 +0000

MEMRI does have its own biases, Juan Cole had an interesting run in with them.

By: M. Simon

M. Simon — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:21:41 +0000

My take on this is that no rational Arab/Islamic state wants to be on the top of the list.

Assad is practically screaming for a peace confrence with Israel. Return of the Golan no longer required. Evidently he is near the top of the list. Sharonis not interested.

Kadaffy rolls a large segment of the nuclear underground. Evidently he wants to keep his job a while longer.

I think we are going to see a lot more of these states trying to help out with the war. They can see Iraq is going to succeed in their democracy initiative. They can see success in Afghanistan. They can see Iran and Syria in the cross hairs.

Bush’s election has changed the “wait and see” attitude to “why wait”.

By: Matt Evans

Matt Evans — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:41:14 +0000

Hmmm, wonder if the US threatened to stop writing the billion dollar extortion check if they didn’t tone down the rhetoric.

By: ricpic

ricpic — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:11:38 +0000

Moving up from abomination to disgrace….yippee!

By: Bruce W.

Bruce W. — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:04:55 +0000

It’s cause for cautious optimism, but I’ll pop a cork when it moves from the op-ed to the news pages. Meanwhile let us all pray for Sharon and Peres to srike a deal. Interesting what possibilities follow from the death of monster.

My prayer for the Pals: May they defy their history and boldly miss the opportunity to miss this opportunity.