KidRocks
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Looks like I wasn't the only one angered by Israels massive military overreaction, some of the most promising students and backers of democracy in Egypt and elsewhere in the MiddleEast were deeply alienated by Israel and the United States brutal show of force in Lebanon. This is indeed a setback for the democracy movement that Bush was so proud of.
The Bush administration just can't do anything right and America will have to pay for the consequences for a long, long time. The ramifications of Bush invading Iraq and Israels hostilities against Lebanon will be felt for decades by whomever occupies the White House, not good.
CAIRO, Egypt - Egypt's best-known democracy movement has switched causes and is now focused on demanding an end to the country's peace treaty with Israel.
The campaign by the Kifaya group is a sign of how the war in Lebanon knocked momentum from democracy efforts and left many reform activists deeply resentful of the United States.
Over the past two years, Washington has made promoting democracy a key part of its Middle East policy. But now reformists accuse Washington of supporting Israel in its offensive against Hezbollah guerrillas, which wreaked widespread destruction in Lebanon.
Edward S. Walker, a former U.S. ambassador to Egypt and Israel, believes Kifaya's new campaign showcases Washington's dilemma as it strives to sell the values of democracy and freedom in a region galvanized for decades by the Arab-Israeli conflict.
"One of the costs of pressing for democracy in the Middle East is the fact that most democratically based Arab parties ... will be hostile to Israel," said Walker, now with the Middle East Institute, a Washington-based think tank.
The Kifaya movement has launched a campaign to collect 1 million signatures on a petition calling for the annulment of Egypt's U.S.-sponsored 1979 peace treaty with Israel.
The move is mainly symbolic, but it highlights the extent of resentment felt by Egyptians toward Israel — and by association, the United States, its main backer...
The Bush administration just can't do anything right and America will have to pay for the consequences for a long, long time. The ramifications of Bush invading Iraq and Israels hostilities against Lebanon will be felt for decades by whomever occupies the White House, not good.
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CAIRO, Egypt - Egypt's best-known democracy movement has switched causes and is now focused on demanding an end to the country's peace treaty with Israel.
The campaign by the Kifaya group is a sign of how the war in Lebanon knocked momentum from democracy efforts and left many reform activists deeply resentful of the United States.
Over the past two years, Washington has made promoting democracy a key part of its Middle East policy. But now reformists accuse Washington of supporting Israel in its offensive against Hezbollah guerrillas, which wreaked widespread destruction in Lebanon.
Edward S. Walker, a former U.S. ambassador to Egypt and Israel, believes Kifaya's new campaign showcases Washington's dilemma as it strives to sell the values of democracy and freedom in a region galvanized for decades by the Arab-Israeli conflict.
"One of the costs of pressing for democracy in the Middle East is the fact that most democratically based Arab parties ... will be hostile to Israel," said Walker, now with the Middle East Institute, a Washington-based think tank.
The Kifaya movement has launched a campaign to collect 1 million signatures on a petition calling for the annulment of Egypt's U.S.-sponsored 1979 peace treaty with Israel.
The move is mainly symbolic, but it highlights the extent of resentment felt by Egyptians toward Israel — and by association, the United States, its main backer...
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