Posted on 02/11/2011 1:53:50 PM PST by LowTaxesEqualsProsperity
Hosni Mubarak had harsh words for the United States and what he described as its misguided quest for democracy in the Middle East in a telephone call with an Israeli lawmaker a day before he quit as Egypt's president. The legislator, former cabinet minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, said on TV Friday that he came away from the 20-minute conversation on Thursday with the feeling the 82-year-old leader realized "it was the end of the Mubarak era". "He had very tough things to say about the United States," said Ben-Eliezer, a member of the Labor Party who has held talks with Mubarak on numerous occasions while serving in various Israeli coalition governments. "He gave me a lesson in democracy and said: 'We see the democracy the United States spearheaded in Iran and with Hamas, in Gaza, and that's the fate of the Middle East,'" Ben-Eliezer said. "'They may be talking about democracy but they don't know what they're talking about and the result will be extremism and radical Islam,'" he quoted Mubarak as saying. U.S. support for pro-democracy elements in Iran has not led to regime change in the Islamic Republic, and Hamas, a group Washington considers to be a terrorist organization, won a 2006 Palestinian election promoted by the United States. Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip in 2007 after a coalition government it formed with Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas collapsed in a power struggle. Ben-Eliezer said Mubarak expanded in the telephone call on "what he expects will happen in the Middle East after his fall". "He contended the snowball (of civil unrest) won't stop in Egypt and it wouldn't skip any Arab country in the Middle East and in the Gulf.
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That's about the size of it.
If there is a big demonstration in Tehran on Monday what you will see is a big blood bath.....those fools won’t give up easy and it will get ugly quick. I honestly don’t think that with those religious idiots democracy as we know it is possible. I’ve said for years when you roll the make believe world of religion into politics....big trouble is looming.
we suddenly discover he’s a dictator?
Islam reduces men to evil brutes. Only an iron fisted dictator who understands that is able to inforce “social order.” It’s ugly, it’s mean, but it’s the truth. One doesn’t have to spend much time in Moslem countries to understand that. Mubarak was iron fisted, but as benificent as that hell (Egypt) will ever see. It will become obvious as Egypt decends into chaos with his departure.
OBAMA is setting up a MUSLIM WORLD and they WON”T BE STOPPED AT VIENNA THIS TIME BECAUSE THEY WILL DESTROY THE VATICAN ALSO!
Sadly, I think you are correct. I simply don't feel that Mubarak was ever a threat to the US, Israel or any of our other allies. Unfortunately there is no upside to our efforts to overthrow him. If it works out for Egypt, they will never give the US credit for it, but if it goes badly in Egypt then our meddling will be used by Muslim extremists to stir up the next revolution. There are other dictators in the region worth overthrowing...but not Mubarak.
Jordan will be the next to fall.
"They" who? Was the whole country in the streets of Cairo? Did they ALL want this? Did Obama's comments spur them on? From here it looks like a puppet show with manipulation from outside of Egypt..., but if they're happy...
It's their country.
Is it? or WAS it?
Not our problem.
Did Obama's comments spur them on?
LOL.
Egypt jumping from the frying pan into the fire.
There are certain people around here who have an agenda that has nothing to do with the freedom of the Egyptian people. Some of it is just the desire to blame America for everything that happens in the world, some of it has to do with the hopeful destruction of Israel, some of it is to be just argumentative.
Next to those dictators, Mubarak was a cream puff. They would have rolled the tanks and deployed the death squads after the first protests.
Remember those three-week long protests in Saddam's Iraq? Neither do I.
Arabs always have dictators; it is the nature of muslim religion.
The best solution is to prop up a psuedo-friendly dictator that moves them to islam-lite.
He belongs on the View. Watch those illiterate women squeal with joy.
Chilling.
Well, you have a point about Obama spurring ANYTHING on. LOL
The military may control the country right now but what we don't know is who is going to end up controlling Egypt's intelligence organization. It might be easier for the MB to affect a second revolution once they infiltrate the intelligence org.
You have got to be kidding? This is exactly what is going to happen.
Your're right. So better a dictator who cooperates with us than a dictator who'll set the Middle East, and maybe the world, aflame.
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