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Shalom pointed to the current situation in Lebanon, where the Lebanese people have pushed Syria to end its involvement in their country, and to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s announcement that Egypt will now conduct multi-party elections, as signs that “the Middle East is choosing freedom...
...invasion of Iraq," Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt explained to David Ignatius of the Washington Post. "I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world. The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen...
...Egyptian analysts Mubarak's announcement goes further than anyone had expected in opening up space for opposition candidates. Speaking in Menoufia governorate, his birthplace, where he was touring some factories, Mubarak said that it was now up to the political parties to select candidates from within their ranks to run for president...
...increasingly assertive Egyptian movement for change and reform has since last December taken the word kefaya (meaning "enough") as its slogan, and organized sit-ins and demonstrations against a fifth term for Mubarak, and to denounce the principle of presidential inheritance, marking their opposition to the possibility that Mubarak be replaced by his younger son, Gamal. Just last week, some demonstrators even took the risk of shouting "down with Mubarak" in a heavily policed demonstration outside Cairo University...
...Mubarak's decision is definitely a giant leap forward for Egyptian democratic life, but the coming period is crucial in determining the true effectiveness of this initiative," says Hassan Abu Taleb. Still, once the gates have been opened on the principle of democratic choice in Egyptian political life, they may not be as easily closed again...