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Bloody night in Cairo

ten dead in the protest

Ten people killed in the clashes on the Egyptian square last night. 1,500 more wounded. The victims are regime opponents who gathered in Cairo in Tahir square, who were shot by some Mubarak supporters.
Nobel laureate El Baradei asks the world not to support "a government that kills its own citizens".

What comes after the Revolution? The debate

Vittorio Emanuele Parsi in Italian newspaper La Stampa says: "We must already think of what will come after Mubarak, trying and exert all the influence available to try and direct the movement. And we must do so starting from the identification of the counterparts, which by now, and I emphasize this time term, is still crucial. I say this in reference to militaries, El Baradei and the Muslim Brothers. At the moment these are, for different reasons, the counterparts equipped with significant resources [...]. This would entail the recognition of the legitimate political nature of the Muslim Brothers, but it would avoid the reproduction in Egypt of the Gaza disaster to much greater a scale: i.e. to demand regular elections first, to then rebuke their validity when we are not happy about the winners".

In the same paper we read the stance of politologist Yossi Klein Halevi, very influential on the Israeli government and active in the dialogue with the Arabs. He defines the Muslim Brothers "as the bringers of an ideology pursuing Islam's world power" and asks the West to stop them.

Also Pierluigi Battista in the Corriere is sharply against dialogue with the Muslim Brothers and writes: "The fact that they are not placing bombs anymore, that they have long given up violence, doesn't at all mean that they are a suitable counterpart. Ideologuically speaking they are not different from Al Qaeda and a final victory of theirs in Egypt (which is possible -provided the army allows for it- given that the Muslim Brotherhood is the only articulated and organized political force in the Egyptian society) would precisely determin an authoritarian outcome able to impress an antiWestern shift in the axis of the whole Middle East".

Haaretz journalist Amira Hass, the only Israeli living in Gaza, interviews Mahmoud al-Aker, urologist and head of the Independent Commission for Human Rights which since 1993 has overseen the deeds of the Palestinian Authority. The doctor and activist denounces the prohibition for Palestinians to demonstrate in solidarity with the Egyptians, due to diffidence towards the new forces, but also to a lack of a true democracy in Palestine.

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