Largest Israeli News Site's Op-Ed : Arabs in Love with Anarchy, Protests Are Not Real Democracy

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4152973,00.html


This isn’t the first time the Arab world falls in love with the negative images it invents. This was also the case in the 1990s and in the 2000s, when the Arab world fell in love with the martyr phenomenon. Poets wrote songs of praise for the suicide bombers who blew up in Israel and media outlets spoke of them enthusiastically. However, the martyrs then started to explode in the streets of the Arab world as well.

The same happened when the Egyptians fell in love with the destructive military revolution they experienced in 1952, and this is happening now too: They have fallen in love with anarchy. The “million-man” rally at Cairo’s Tahrir Square has turned into a sanctified term for them, a value instead of a means, an admirable historical symbol, without realizing that there isn’t much that ties this rally to real democracy. This is in fact an aggressive, belligerent and destructive move for their society.

Indeed, Egypt is home to 87 million citizens, and a million babies were already born since Hosni Mubarak was toppled. After all, there is no problem in getting hundreds of thousands and even millions of people out to the streets. Yet the Egyptians failed to realize that they are sanctifying an aggressive and even violent move, which from now on shall threaten any kind of regime that emerges there. Moreover, it will now be difficult to fight against such sanctified phenomena, especially as Egyptians sanctified them themselves. After all, there will always be frustrated and disappointed people out there.

The huge expectations of what they refer to as the “January 25th Revolution” gave rise to huge disappointment and despair. In fact, not much has changed. More accurately: It changed for the worse. All national parameters declined: The economy, personal safety, and Egypt’s global stature. From a stable, powerful state, Egypt is turning into a country that is perceived as unsafe, overcome by despair, and dangerous. This is anarchy. When anarchy is being worshiped, it becomes the real ruler.

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Substitute 99%ers, OWS, anti-austerity protesters, pro-peace/anti-war demonstrators, anti-fracking groups, etc etc for Egyptians............ and you get the drift of the authoritarian strand of thought on display here.

The Eygyptians are protesting military rule left over from the Mubarak regime. Painting it as something else seems very suspicious.

The 1% don't like the smell of real democracy.

Definition of DEMOCRACY
1 a: government by the people; especially : rule of the majority

b: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections

2: a political unit that has a democratic government

3 capitalized: the principles and policies of the Democratic party in the United States <from emancipation Republicanism to New Deal Democracy — C. M. Roberts>

4: the common people especially when constituting the source of political authority

5: the absence of hereditary or arbitrary class distinctions or privileges
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/democracy

a path set decades ago.

So typical of colonial invaders and colonizers.they always describing and telling the victims of their naked aggression of people they occupy,how they think,and what they like.
Always denigrating,and dehumanizing their victims,this kind of analysis piece is nothing new.
Anyone that resist their Colonial arrogance or reject their culture is seen as savages and less human than they are.
One thing they have to understand,is that no one is going to live under tyrants,who oppress,terrorize an kill them in the street with US made weapons,just because it is better for Israel and US strategic interest or anyone else who thinks that they should live under Mubarak,and the other tyrants that are getting kicked out of power.
As far as they are concerned their life and freedom is way more important,and comes come first before US or anyone else "strategic interest" in their own country.

Foreign Occupiers need to understand they don't own the world,and can not go anywhere they want,and do as they want, anytime they want,or pick and chose other nations leaders for them.or telling other nations who they can,or can not have have friends,and what kind of weapons they can have or can not have.
it would be preposterous for any country have the nerve to tell us who we should have or can have as friends,or what kind of weapons we can have

They just changed some of the terms.

I am pretty sure Ynet is not widely read in Egypt, which leads me to wonder who it is this is supposed to be addressed to, and what its purpose is?

That will claim the tearing down part of changing the paradigm is the goal rather than the means.

The emergence of genuinely democratic societies in the Islamic Middle East would be a great threat to the RW vision of the Israeli state. I would expect them to do everything they can to pretend that it's not real or not meaningful for as long as they possibly can.

I think it's not unusual for "national paramaters" to decline for awhile following the toppling of an authoritarian regime. I would venture to guess that they even did in our country immediately following the Revolutionary War. But it's a game attempt at discrediting something they really don't want.

Mubarak's regime was committed to a continuation of the peace that Sadat's regime made with Israel. On the other hand, that same commitment was the reason that the West was willing to overlook the regime's shortcomings, in contrast to Syria's dimly viewed regime.