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Lessons to learn from the illusory stability of "ex-Egypt"

By Yuriy Vilner

Shafiq Jamoos [Palestinian lawyer]: "The outbreak of the peaceful revolution of the Egyptian people was shocking - in every sense of the word - to many around the world. No one expected that Egypt, the "stable" country of the "wild" Middle East, would witness such an extensive revolution against the Egyptian government and even the "untouchable" President Hosny Mubarak himself. What most of the world didn't know before this revolution was that this stability was quite illusory; it was based on the oppression and fear of the people, and on a tyrannical exclusion of political opponents. The suppression of Egypt's second voice cannot in any way derive from stable legal

Full post as published by JURIST - Hotline on February 15, 2011 (boomark / email).