Wednesday, February 2, 2011

How to bury the mummy?

The Pharaoh is dead, politically dead. What we see is his mummy. How long will this inertia walking embalmed? Spending hours, days, weeks? The soldiers have their answer, they will decide when and how to seal the coffin. Depending on the size of the Egyptian protests today, the time that the military takes to find an institutional and policy for transition and when it reaches the green light from Washington.

A reasonable solution would be a provisional government headed by ElBaradei, a Nobel Prize in prestige and credibility within and outside their country, following the abandonment of the power of Mubarak, integrate the major political forces in the Nile Valley, meanwhile, the people will be portraying.

The official Israel and majority, what a shame, preferring dictatorship to democracy in the Arab neighborhood. Save the honor of Israel, the editorial of today's edition of Haaretz and Netanyahu urging his countrymen to abandon a vision that is collapsing before our eyes, that the "lesser evil" for Israel is that the Arab world is ruled by "tyrants." Israel, which for decades has boasted of being the only democracy in that part of the world, will have to start learning to negotiate with Arab governments that emerged from the polls.

Be congratulated, however, the attitude of clear support to combatants Egyptian Democrats ruled by Erdogan's Turkey. Here is a predominantly Muslim country of religion that is building a few years ago wanting to insert a democracy in Europe. A country ruled by the Islamist AKP, for the media and political scientists have invented the title of "moderate", which can serve as a model for the entire southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean.

In fact, people like the Tunisian Ganuchi, recently returned to their homeland, it mentioned these days as its main reference, rejecting the way the model of Iran of the ayatollahs. It is possible that in a first phase, democratic religious parties like what they were, and still are, the European Christian democracy have an important role in the march toward freedom in Arab countries.

In any case, others who have been exposed by their reaction to the Arab democratic revolution are those Westerners who try to scare us with the possibility that freedom come to the Nile Valley, the Muslim Brotherhood won the election. Besides that remains to be seen, this is the same argument of those reactionary Washington in the Cold War, justified their support for Latin American military dictatorships, and those of Portugal and Spain, by the possibility of socialist or communist left win free elections.

The argument should be no receipt for any democrat.

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