Wednesday 1 June 2011
Worldwide Opinions
The United States
Palestine
– Ismail Haniya, head of the de facto Hamas administration, contacted the Muslim Brotherhood’s General Guide and congratulated him on the success of the “revolution in Egypt” (Hamas’ Palestine-info website and Al-Arab Online, February 11, 2011). A short Hamas press release noted that the victory of the Egyptian revolution would change history for Egypt and weaken the “blockade” of the Gaza Strip.
– Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, called on the new Egyptian government to lift immediately the “blockade” of the Gaza Strip and enable free passage through the Rafah crossing (Hamas’ Palestine-info website, February 11, 2011).
– Yunis al-Astal, a Hamas member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, said that the fall of the Mubarak regime was also the fall of the Palestinian Authority, which “participated with the former Egypt regime in the blockade of Gaza” (Hamas’ Safa News Agency, February 11, 2011).
– Ayman Nofel, commander of the central sector of Hamas’ Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, who escaped from an Egyptian prison during the riots in Egypt and reached the Gaza Strip, said at a ceremony held in his honor that Mubarak’s resignation and the fall of the regime in Egypt were “the fall of a regime of oppression and corruption (Hamas’ Safa News Agency, February 11, 2011).
United Kingdom
UK Prime Minister David Cameron said this was a "really precious moment of opportunity to have a government that can bring the people together", and called for a "move to civilian and democratic rule".
Russia
The Russian State Duma, or the lower house of the parliament, welcomed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's resignation, local media reported on Friday.
"This decision is absolutely right, because even the curfew in Cairo has not stopped the president's opponents and situation may go to the unpredictable tragic consequences," Leonid Slutsky, deputy head of the Duma's International Committee, was quoted as saying.
Another senior official of the Duma, Leonid Kalashnikov, said that Mubarak's decision to resign was made "late but it was the only one correct."
Sources :
http://world.globaltimes.cn/europe/2011-02/622061.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12433045
http://www.crethiplethi.com/palestinians-celebrate-mubaraks-resignation/israel/gaza-and-westbank/2011/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12433045
http://www.crethiplethi.com/palestinians-celebrate-mubaraks-resignation/israel/gaza-and-westbank/2011/
Tuesday 31 May 2011
Final decision by Hosni Mubarak
After 18 days of protests in Egypt, started from 25 January 2011 until 11 February 2011, finally Hosni Mubarak has resigned from his post, handing over power to the armed forces.Omar Suleiman, the vice-president, announced in a televised address that the president was "waiving" his office, and had handed over authority to the Supreme Council of the armed forces.
Suleiman's short statement was received with a roar of approval and by celebratory chanting and flag-waving from a crowd of hundreds of thousands in Cairo's Tahrir Square, as well by pro-democracy campaigners who attended protests across the country on Friday.
The crowd inTahrir were seen crying, cheering and embracing one another while chanted “We have brought down the regime”. The Egyptians felt so happy with the decision made and the day was greatest day of their life.
In Alexandria, Egypt's second city, our correspondent described an "explosion of emotion". He said that hundreds of thousands were celebrating in the streets.
Pro-democracy activists in the Egyptian capital and elsewhere had earlier marched on presidential palaces, state television buildings and other government installations on Friday, the 18th consecutive day of protests.
The extraordinary scenes in Cairo tonight - with the streets, avenues, and bridges jammed with hooting cars xcited flag-waving people - are a sign of the relief and pride which the crowds now feel.This was a victory for them in a country where people have habitually been obliged to do what their political masters told them.Now they have the prospect of voting for their own leader in the coming presidential election.
In Egypt's 5,000 years as a unitary state, these people have never been able to choose their government before.Will the army let it happen? It is hard to think now that they could prevent it. The people who have taken control of their cities and their country once know how to do it again. It wand eould be foolhardy for the army to try to stop them.
What has happened here in Egypt can happen anywhere. In Libya, in Iran, in Algeria, in Syria. It does not take leaders and it does not take a well-organized conspiracy.It simply takes courage
of the kind the demonstrators have shown in Egypt.
The leaders of autocracies in the Middle East and way beyond should not sleep easy after this.
*The article was edited by blog owner that has being taken from those sources :
Causes of Egypt Uprising
The Egypt revolution that began on 25 January 2011 was happened basically based on some causes. In general, we know that most Egyptian did not satisfy with the way of President Hosni Mubarak rule. However, there are actually some causes defined on what are the specific reasons of this revolution.
Obviously, the main causes of this kind of protest are poverty and employment. The Egyptians have burdened the poverty although many regard Egypt as a wealthy nation. The truth is large percentage of its population are young people who are grappling with the joblessness and destitution, moreover the food prices have risen. The poverty in Egypt can be proven when nearly half of all Egyptians live under or just above the poverty line, which the World Bank sets at $2 a day.
According to Newsmax.com, in the article of Egypt's Poverty, Unemployment, Push Youths to Breaking Point on 31 Jan 2011, The Land of the Pharoahs barely scrapes along economically because of its exploding population (the largest in the Arab world), limited arable land, and dependence on the Nile River. Those conditions “all continue to overtax resources and stress society,” the CIA World Factbook notes, adding, “despite the relatively high levels of economic growth over the past few years, living conditions for the average Egyptian remain poor.”
Based on one study from the United Nations Children’s Fund, it is noting that the situation for children has deteriorated despite efforts of the government, public institutions, and grass-roots organizations.
“The income gap in Egypt has steadily increased since 2000, and almost 7 million children were living below the income poverty line in 2008,” the report says. “This is almost 1.3 million children more than about 10 years earlier.”
Based on one study from the United Nations Children’s Fund, it is noting that the situation for children has deteriorated despite efforts of the government, public institutions, and grass-roots organizations.
“The income gap in Egypt has steadily increased since 2000, and almost 7 million children were living below the income poverty line in 2008,” the report says. “This is almost 1.3 million children more than about 10 years earlier.”
The other main cause that had been driven to the revolution is government corruption. There was a movement called Kifaya Movement has took action to uncover many corruption cases within the Egyptian ruling regime. It has done the final touches on a document that will show how several officials got implicated in huge corruption cases. The deputy general coordinator of Kifaya Movement, George Ishak said that those documents would be evidence public and they will making them for the evidence will be very soon.
Besides, according to Abdul Halim Kandeel, spokesman for Kifaya Movement said “"Corruption has exceeded all limits in Egypt , where rights and freedoms are violated in front of all the world. All Egyptian freemen want to end this corruption and hold corrupters accountable in front of justice. We hope this will happen in the near future".
So those are some evidences why the uprising happened as a lot of corruption cases were committed in Egypt government.
*The article was edited by blog owner that has being taken from those sources :
http://www.ikhwanweb.com
http://www.newsmax.com
Who is Hosni Mubarak ?
Now, revolution in Egypt became a hot global issue, and Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's third and longest-serving president also became popular. Seems that everyone want to know who is he.
Who is he?
Hosni Mubarak was born on May 4, 1928 in the Nile delta province of Minufiya. He had four siblings and his father was a minor official in the Ministry of Justice. Mubarak's village of Kafr-El Meselha was known for its schools and had produced four cabinet ministers. Mubarak did well in school and completed primary schooling in his village and secondary studies in the nearby capital of Shibin El-Kom, Egypt, before going on to Egypt's Military Academy and then its Air Academy.
He graduated from the Air Academy in 1950, completing his studies in only two years by attending year-round. He became a pilot and received part of his training in the former Soviet Union.Hosni Mubarak married with Suzanne and have two son sons, Alaa and Gamal Mubarak.
Military career
Mubarak was an instructor at the Air Academy and commanded Egypt's bomber force in the Yemen civil war in the 1960s. He was named director of the Air Academy in 1967 and given the important task of rebuilding the air force, which the Israelis had destroyed in the Six Day War of June 1967. Mubarak moved up to air force chief of staff in 1969 and commander in chief in 1972. He helped plan a successful surprise attack on Israeli forces occupying the east.
Became a president
Before he ruled Egypt, Anwar Sadat was the president. On October 1981, Anwar Sadat was assasinated by Islamic fundamentalist and his position was taken by his vice president,Hosni Mubarak. President Sadat named Mubarak as vice president in 1975.
Taking over as president, he moved quickly to crush an Islamic uprising and jailed over two-thousand five-hundred members of militant (engaging in violence) Islamic groups. Mubarak kept most of Sadat's foreign and domestic policies, including the Camp David treaty and Sadat's close ties to the United States. All the Arab states but three had criticized Egypt for the treaty with Israel, so Mubarak tried to rebuild relations with Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasir Arafat (1929–). It was Mubarak who encouraged Arafat to compromise and recognize Israel's right to exist.
Egypt isolated?
When Hosni Mubarak became a president, Egypt was isolated. When Mubarak assumed power, Egypt was isolated from Arab and Muslim countries, many of whom had broken off diplomatic ties after Sadat signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979.
In one of its greatest diplomatic defeats, Egypt was kicked out of the Arab League and its headquarters were moved from Cairo to Tunisia. Mubarak's first foreign policy mandate was to bring his country back into the Arab fold and to resume ties with major players in the region.
In one of its greatest diplomatic defeats, Egypt was kicked out of the Arab League and its headquarters were moved from Cairo to Tunisia. Mubarak's first foreign policy mandate was to bring his country back into the Arab fold and to resume ties with major players in the region.
His first success was in building a relationship with the then influential Arab leader Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi president, whose country was locked in a bloody war with Iran.Egypt signed on as Iraq's ally in the conflict, providing military assistance and expertise to Baghdad.
By the time the Iran-Iraq war ended in 1988, Egypt had successfully emerged from its isolation. In 1990, in a move spearheaded by Iraq and Yemen, the Arab League headquarters were returned to Cairo.But the Arab rapprochement was short-lived as Egypt opposed Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990. Mubarak urged Saddam to withdraw his forces from Kuwait; when Baghdad failed to do so, Egypt joined the US-led international effort to drive Iraqi troops out of Kuwait
source:http://www.notablebiographies.com/Mo-Ni/Mubarak-Hosni.html
http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2009/12/200912693048491779.html
http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2009/12/200912693048491779.html
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