All the experts are praising the sudden awakening of the masses in Egypt and the kindly treatment they're getting from the suddenly kindly soldiers of the Egyptian army.
If this is true it means that the Egyptian people have changed from being a nation with a high rate of illiteracy and consequent ignorance to being a nation with a large percentage of people who are well educated and have the intelligence, willingness, courage and freedom to express their own opinion.
If this change has taken place it must have been over quite a long time and must have been very quiet untill now.
It takes a long time, usually hundreds of years, for non thinking mass of uneducated to become educated and to value the importance of education and freedom.
The revolution in education of the masses must have been in the making for many a year in Egypt and the peaceful demonstrations we're witnessing now must be just climax of the deep rooted, gradual change that has been going on in Egypt.
If this is true then Mubarak has been a wonderful leader for Egypt; he's raised the mass of unthinking, uneducated, simple, good people of Egypt to a high level of being able to think for themselves.
There is a possibility that this is true. After all is said and done people do change their nature. It's rare but it does happen. Rarer still is for a whole nation to change its nature but even that is possible.
One shouldn't be pessimistic. After all aren't we working towards change? Wasn't the American ideal that Middle East should change from being ruled by tyrants to being ruled democratically like the USA itself? So isn't this the dream come true?
For the answer to these questions to be in the affirmative Egypt would have to fulfill the main condition of freedom, namely, there'd have to be freedom of speech.
I'm sceptical that Egypt has truly achieved freedom simply because we here in Israel didn't hear anything about life in Egypt neither did any Egyptian visit Israel (excepiting Omar Suleiman, the head of security who might be the new president of Egypt).
Egyptians didn't suddenly become a nation of free, independent thinking people.
This certainly doesn't mean that change hasn't taken place. It has but it's not the kind that changes the nature of the country, such as the change from slavery to freedom.
I love looking at pictures in the news of the happy faces of the Egyptian demonstrators one It really warms my heart to see how happy they are.
They really think that their demonstration has brought them a better life and more freedom. I even find articles written by experts on the Middle East from the Dayan Institute of the Tel Aviv University about how the rebellion was lead by the director of Google in Egypt.
Now that is really something; the Egyptians are using computers and sending messages on Twitter and Facebook. I'm sure that many are doing this and that these messages have played a significant role in keeping the demonstration going but I think the experts are exaggerating just a little.
It's wonderful to see that even slaves can learn to use the internet. It is definitely a sign of progress and it's very exciting. Perhaps they really will make progress towards freedom and independent thought.
I don't think for a moment that Mubarak instigated this demonstration so that he could resign and give the Egyptian people a feeling of satisfcation that they threw him out.
The demonstration was genuine. But I can't stop thinking Mubarak used it very skilfully and demonstrated his achievement in raising the Egyptian Nation, to a new level of independence, however slight the rise was.
This is Mubarak's way of saying goodbye to the Egyptian people and handing them over to another dictator posing as a kind, beneficial, father of the nation kind of figure as Mubarak was.
If this is true it means that the Egyptian people have changed from being a nation with a high rate of illiteracy and consequent ignorance to being a nation with a large percentage of people who are well educated and have the intelligence, willingness, courage and freedom to express their own opinion.
If this change has taken place it must have been over quite a long time and must have been very quiet untill now.
It takes a long time, usually hundreds of years, for non thinking mass of uneducated to become educated and to value the importance of education and freedom.
The revolution in education of the masses must have been in the making for many a year in Egypt and the peaceful demonstrations we're witnessing now must be just climax of the deep rooted, gradual change that has been going on in Egypt.
If this is true then Mubarak has been a wonderful leader for Egypt; he's raised the mass of unthinking, uneducated, simple, good people of Egypt to a high level of being able to think for themselves.
There is a possibility that this is true. After all is said and done people do change their nature. It's rare but it does happen. Rarer still is for a whole nation to change its nature but even that is possible.
One shouldn't be pessimistic. After all aren't we working towards change? Wasn't the American ideal that Middle East should change from being ruled by tyrants to being ruled democratically like the USA itself? So isn't this the dream come true?
For the answer to these questions to be in the affirmative Egypt would have to fulfill the main condition of freedom, namely, there'd have to be freedom of speech.
I'm sceptical that Egypt has truly achieved freedom simply because we here in Israel didn't hear anything about life in Egypt neither did any Egyptian visit Israel (excepiting Omar Suleiman, the head of security who might be the new president of Egypt).
Egyptians didn't suddenly become a nation of free, independent thinking people.
This certainly doesn't mean that change hasn't taken place. It has but it's not the kind that changes the nature of the country, such as the change from slavery to freedom.
I love looking at pictures in the news of the happy faces of the Egyptian demonstrators one It really warms my heart to see how happy they are.
They really think that their demonstration has brought them a better life and more freedom. I even find articles written by experts on the Middle East from the Dayan Institute of the Tel Aviv University about how the rebellion was lead by the director of Google in Egypt.
Now that is really something; the Egyptians are using computers and sending messages on Twitter and Facebook. I'm sure that many are doing this and that these messages have played a significant role in keeping the demonstration going but I think the experts are exaggerating just a little.
It's wonderful to see that even slaves can learn to use the internet. It is definitely a sign of progress and it's very exciting. Perhaps they really will make progress towards freedom and independent thought.
I don't think for a moment that Mubarak instigated this demonstration so that he could resign and give the Egyptian people a feeling of satisfcation that they threw him out.
The demonstration was genuine. But I can't stop thinking Mubarak used it very skilfully and demonstrated his achievement in raising the Egyptian Nation, to a new level of independence, however slight the rise was.
This is Mubarak's way of saying goodbye to the Egyptian people and handing them over to another dictator posing as a kind, beneficial, father of the nation kind of figure as Mubarak was.
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