Arab protests in solidarity with the Egyptian people also suggest that there is a strong yearning for the revival of Egypt as a pan-Arab unifier and leader. Photographs of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the former Egyptian president, have been raised in Cairo and across Arab capitals by people who were not even alive when Nasser died in 1970. The scenes are reminiscent of those that swept Arab streets in the 1950s and 1960s.
(Stop here and observe that Al Jazeera English is carried in about three major Cable TV markets in the USA. I think this astounding figure is very telling about just how much "real information" versus propaganda the American people demand from their Cable servers.)
But this is not an exact replica of the pan-Arab nationalism of those days. Then, pan-Arabism was a direct response to Western domination and the 1948 establishment of the state of Israel. Today, it is a reaction to the absence of democratic freedoms and the inequitable distribution of wealth across the Arab world.
The absence of democratic freedoms is foreshadowed in the distance by the fact that the USA wages wars all over the globe without a declaration of war by the elected representatives.
The inequitable distribution of wealth is closer and clearer.
The Future is filled with the potential of Revolution.
Even here we shall be demonstrating within 10 years.
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