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Titolo: Ancora sull'arresto di Nahum in Egitto

Come Il Bacucco sono molto apprensivi riguardo alla situazione.
An amateur video showing the arrest in Egypt of an alleged spy
belonging to the Israeli General Staff Reconnaissance Unit,
the Sayeret Matkal, indicates how worried Tel Aviv is by the turmoil
engulfing the Mubarak regime and suggests that attempts are underway
by outside forces to destabilise the popular revolution.
Meanwhile, sabotage of a major Egyptian-Israeli gas pipeline early
this morning (Saturday) by unknown bombers in the Northern Sinai town
of El Arish could be the beginning of a campaign to destabilise Egypt
and legitimate further foreign intervention in that country –
intervention that would advantage US/Israeli attempts to salvage the
regime that has so loyally served their interests, but which is now
slipping from its control.
The video (1), which was aired by the Iranian channel Press TV (2),
shows an unnamed man being led away by Egyptian military amid chanting
anti-government protesters. There were reports that two Israeli
personnel were initially apprehended by the protesters while
travelling in a car amid the backdrop of violent clashes across the
country’s capital, Cairo.
These incidents follows recent Israeli government statements that it
is “following closely” the popular uprising in Egypt, which after 11
days of curfew-defying street rallies across the country, is
threatening to topple the 30-year-old regime of US-backed Hosni
Mubarak. Despite the regime’s best attempts to brutally beat the
people of the streets, with stones, knives, guns and petrol bombs, the
protest movement is standing strong and refuses to bow, indeed is
getting stronger.
Only days ago, Israel was reported to have sent crowd-dispersal
equipment to the beleaguered Mubarak dictatorship, which Tel Aviv,
along with Washington, counts as an “important ally”.
And, according to Middle East Monitor, Israeli government sources say
that
the state of Israel has placed "all its capabilities" at the disposal
of General Omar Suleiman,
Mubarak’s recently appointed vice president and long-time Mossad
collaborator, for the "protection of the regime in Egypt". (3)
Suleiman is being touted in the Western media as Washington’s
prescribed heir apparent in a post-Mubarak regime.
The bigger picture here is that Tel Aviv, and more importantly its
sponsor Washington, are petrified by the threat being posed by Egypt’s
uprising to their vital interests across the Middle East, North Africa
and beyond.
This explains the feverish diplomatic and military communications over
the past week between these two capitals and Cairo. When you think
about it, the intense communications from US president Obama and every
senior administration official, the military aid assurances from
Washington and Tel Aviv, the brazen meddling in the affairs of a
supposedly sovereign state, and now apparently the involvement of
secret agents, all speak of one thing: panic.
For Washington, the stakes are even higher. Both Egypt and Israel are
cornerstones in US imperial reach.
The loss of Egypt – a population of over 80 million, the biggest in
the Arab world – from the US fold would inflict the same kind of
trauma Washington is still reeling from when it lost the Shah of Iran
to the Iranian revolution 32 years ago.
With the imminent added loss of Egypt – a natural leader in the Arab
world whose positive role has long been distorted and suppressed by
the US under its puppet Mubarak – the trauma incurred for American
geopolitical designs would be even greater.
A truly independent, democratic Egypt would deal a fatal blow to US
imperialistic meddling and warmongering.
Without Mubarak’s regime or whomever else Washington appoints to run
it, the domino effect of an Egypt liberated from US domination would
send other, less formidable, US-backed regimes tumbling.
This, of course, should be good news for the region and beyond for the
establishment of governments that serve the social and economic
interests of their people as opposed to tiny corrupt elites and their
paymasters in Washington. It could also be good news for a new era of
peaceful relations in a conflict-ridden region and for long overdue
justice for the Palestinian people in particular.
It should serve as an acute lesson to those who may naively think
otherwise. Washington, in its machinations and prevarications, is
showing itself to be spectacularly against all the possible virtues
and outcomes that a democratic revolution in Egypt would bring.
The masquerader that has for so long tormented this region is being
unmasked.
The people of Egypt are not just bringing a tyrant and his tyrannical
regime down. They are by dint of their struggle for democracy exposing
the brutal reality of US government involvement in their country and
the wider world.
For these reasons, we can be sure that the empire will strike back
with a vengeance. Along with the saccharin shuttle diplomacy to help
Egypt’s “orderly transition” (meaning to restore order for US
interests), we can also expect more covert operations in that country
by American/Israeli counterinsurgency forces to do everything possible
to thwart the Egyptian people achieving their democratic rights. In
retrospect, you can see why the Iranians had to, by necessity, adopt a
hostile US stance in the aftermath of their revolution. The US/Israeli
axis is the most destabilising force threatening peace in the Middle
East and the wider world.
Finian Cunningham
Global Research
Aspettiamo la solita conferenza stampa del morto che parla.
Direi che celebrera' i fratelli mussulmani chiamandoli fratelli
appunto ..........
Vediamo chi sara' il sosia sta volta.

 countryï¿½s capital, Cairo.
Quindi si tratta di un video (diffuso dalla tv iraniana) che mostra una 
presunta (alleged) spia condotta via dai militari egiziani; e delle voci 
(riportate dalla medesima tv) secondo cui due israeliani erano stati presi 
dai dimostranti mentre viaggiavano in macchina per il Cairo. Che si 
trattasse veramente di una spia e non di un turista (o magari due) 
particolarmente sfortunato, e neanche necessariamente israeliano, ï¿½ qualcosa 
su cui dobbiamo credere sulla parola la tv iraniana, notoriamente 
attendibile.
Carlo "Jurassic Park"