Wednesday April 27, 2011

I'm Predicting:

Egypt has implemented policy erasing the name Hosni Mubarak from all official institutions, buildings, streets, parks and just about everything else.

It was only a matter of time before this decision was instituted and it will be only a matter of time before the entire history of Egypt during the reign of Mubarak is completely rewritten.
Hold on to your history books.

You will want to compare the old history texts to the new ones that come out in the next month or so. Do not expect to see the word "revised" on them. Mubarak will be demonized and everything he backed or supported will be condemned. There will be an entire rewriting of the relationship between the West and Egypt and between Israel and Egypt. We are already beginning to hear significant Egyptian leaders and pundits advocating the repudiation of the peace treaty with Israel or at least revisiting the terms of that treaty.

What is most fascinating to me is that Mubarak followed in the footsteps of Anwar Sadat. A direct line can be traced between Sadat and Mubarak in domestic and foreign policy and in attitude toward the Muslim Brotherhood.

And yet, while the Mubarak imprimatur is being wiped out, the history of Sadat has not being rewritten at all - in fact, Anwar Sadat is a considered an Egyptian hero.

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