<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Danny Schector's take on current affairs in Egypt, noting the important obvious:<div><br></div><div><div style="line-height: 14pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; "><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><i>…It [the military] has now dissolved the parliament and suspended the constitution, meeting two key demands of pro-democracy protesters. At the same time, </i></span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><i>it has also, so far, committed itself to keep the structure of the Mubarak regime in place.<o:p></o:p></i></span></font></div><div style="line-height: 14pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><o:p><font color="#000000"><i> </i></font></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 14pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><font color="#000000"><i>How will this sit with a euphoric Egyptian public?<o:p></o:p></i></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><o:p><font color="#000000"><i> </i></font></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><font color="#000000"><i>So far, we have seen a takeover, but not yet the makings of a transformation. When millions of people were in the streets, they had power. When they are not, power reverts to institutions and a bureaucracy considered the most stifling in the world.<o:p></o:p></i></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><o:p><font color="#000000"><i> </i></font></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><font color="#000000"><i>Egypt has been a police state with more than a million informers. That will not change easily.<o:p></o:p></i></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><o:p><font color="#000000"><i> </i></font></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><font color="#000000"><i>Already a CIA assistance team has been dispatched, all in the name of guaranteeing democracy, of course. The Mossad’s role has been more low key but you can assume its there.<o:p></o:p></i></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><o:p><font color="#000000"><i> </i></font></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><font color="#000000"><i>Almost every revolution is menaced by the threat of a counter-revolution and this one is no exception.…</i><br></font></span></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.zcommunications.org/egypt-unrest-and-discontent-by-danny-schechter">http://www.zcommunications.org/egypt-unrest-and-discontent-by-danny-schechter</a></span></font></div></body></html>