Here is a translation of a video that was posted yesterday:
Say what parliament, and what they have done.
And `Ala`a Mubarak, for every business deal, takes a commission.
They say he has repented, and is eating kabab that he bought with his dad's money.
And the fortune oh, has slaughtered the poor
And the fortune does what it desires
And the people have become penniless
No to Mubarak, No to Suleiman, Down with tyranny
We want a civil state, not a sectarian or a religious state,
Not a sectarian nor a robbing state
Further clarification: “Sectarian” state refers to a state like Lebanon that has enforced quotas for representation based on sect/ethnic/religious identity. “Religious” state refers to a state in which the religious authorities are in control – in this case, an Islamic state. “Civil” state means more a secular Western democracy model in which church and state are completely separate.
A “robbing” state means a state in which the few highest in the elite rob the people of all their collective wealth…
Correct me if I am wrong but this is how I understand it.
A great video!
Many countries today are “robbing” states. The U.S. is a prime example of a kleptocracy, a plutarchy run to benefit the elite, bankers, wall street, AIG and GM.
Perhaps political theorists will take note and develop some new models/theories about the way that US and other governments have evolved… what they have become.
I wonder if Israel and its rabid supporters will now finally stop spreading the staple of hasbara, its bread and butter, that Israel is surrounded by tyrants, as though the people of the region willfully enjoy being subjugated and oppressed. Those primitive patriarchal Ay-rabs are simply incapable of establishing a democracy. They only respect authority.
They are still vomiting away on the guardian site. Why, I was asked this morning what Arab country offered its citizens freedom.
The same hasbarists who denounce other states for lacking freedom are the first to denounce actual freedom whenever it tries to lift its head.
“We’re the only democracy in the mideast, and we’re going to keep it that way!”
In other words, the “Arab masses” have a lot of political sophistication… much more than your average American Joe, who probably wouldn’t even know these various forms of government exist.
This is a disaster for neoliberalism.
And for neo conservatism.
It is also part of the financial crisis. Without the QE speculators ploughing money into food commodities there would have been no catalyst.
I also think this total US failure is linked to the strangling grip the rich have on US politics.
I saw in the NY Review a comment that Obama risked ending up like Carter. Carter told the Zionists in 1977 to stop YESHA. But they were far too intelligent to listen, the arrogant know nothings. So what happens to “Ariel” now?
The US Middle East strategy is in bits. Even if they manage to cobble something together for Egypt the damage is done. The US is run by ideological know nothings. Zionism is no longer fit for purpose either. How can anybody watch that London Unadikum video and take anything AIPAC say seriously ? If video had been around in the time of Nasser, 1967 might never have happened. It would have been far, far better for Israel.
Israel depends on the perception of the Arab as Oriental, different , ignorant, threatening and then you see one speaking perfect English and you see it is just Jewish bigotry.
And Israeli deterrence? Don’t make me laugh . Israel is run by the same class of clowns who drove Goldman Sachs to the verge of bankruptcy in 2008.
link to israel-palestinenews.org
In the wake of 9/11, Islamophobes promoted a meme that Arabic is the language of terrorists. US airport security hassled a kid with Arabic writing on his T-shirt; another one carrying Arabic books.
Now images from Egypt showing signs in Arabic calling for freedom and democracy have demolished that simplistic equation. This wasn’t supposed to happen — massive cultural programing fail in progress!
Where are the signs in Hebrew calling for freedom and democracy? Only at the Israeli activists’ protests against the occupation, the wall, the settler violence and the Arab/Bedouin home demolitions.
A telling contrast indeed!