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In the same way that people power liberated Egypt, it should also break the siege of Gaza, according to Jeff Halper, co-founded the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD). Born in Minnesota, Mr. Halper is an author, lecturer, and political activist based in Jerusalem, who holds Israeli and U.S. citizenship.
Muslims and Christians, women and men, young and old Egyptians came together to topple oppression and broken promises.
I, like many Egyptian Canadians and Egyptians worldwide, had an unbelievable experience following the evolving events of the Egyptian revolution.
"We only get as much an open government as we demand," said Jim Bronskill, in a presentation to the Ottawa Council of Women on February 15. He was describing the current state of affairs with availability of information from the federal government. His major areas of interest as a Canadian Press journalist are security, intelligence, policing, and justice.
The old man's voice is scathing, his mind like a razor, that of a veteran fighter, writer, sage, perhaps the most important living witness and historian of modern Egypt, turning on the sins of the regime that tried to shut him up forever.
What next in Egypt? The U.S. has gone back and forth, at one point saying that change must occur "yesterday", and then the tune changed. "We need to get a national consensus around the pre-conditions for the next step forward. The President must stay in office to steer those changes," said special envoy Frank Wisner.
Through his stubbornness Hosni Mubarak has managed to transform himself from a 30 year old "loyal ally" into an 82 year old liability. Almost all dictators cling to power as long as they can. They get used to being the boss and it becomes a way of life for them. Mubarak is no different. But clearly the love of power is not all that is going on with him.
The old man is going. The resignation last night of the leadership of the ruling Egyptian National Democratic Party - including Hosni Mubarak's son Gamal - will not appease those who want to claw the President down. But they will get their blood. The whole vast edifice of power which the NDP represented in Egypt is now a mere shell, a propaganda poster with nothing behind it.
Demonstrations in support of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt? Who would have thought of this just a few days ago? No one. I am certain that this would come as a surprise to many people around the world. Only Egyptians would understand.
When Hosni Mubarak steps down from power in the near future, as I am sure he will, it will be a day that marks the beginning of a new era-one where no one can ever tell me again that serious change is not possible. In fact, thanks to the determination of those in Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, etc., that era has most likely already begun.
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