M hile hundreds of thousands of Egyptians are concentrated yesterday in Tahrir Square, Cairo, on the eighth day of protests against the dictatorial regime of that country-, the disowned President Hosni Mubarak announced in a anticipated speech, he will not seek his re-election in September, but intends to remain in power until the end of their mandate to ensure a peaceful transition. Immediately followed, declared his intention to die on Egyptian soil and called the North African country's population to choose between chaos and stability.
At present, Mubarak's position is not only too little too late for where you look: it is also a joke and a provocation to the Egyptian people, which, in recent weeks, has played physical on the streets of this country to demand the resignation of the dictator, and will not tolerate a new strategy that will enable it to climb in power, if only for a few months.
At this point, Mubarak is in no position to impose conditions: his stay against the Cairo government is unsustainable not only because it lacks the legitimacy to lead his country has avoided the stage for three decades, democratic elections, clean and competence, but because every day he remains in office deepened the discontent of the population and feeding an environment of violence and repression that has already killed 300 people and injured thousands more.
But Mubarak's claims are unacceptable to the Egyptian masses and inflamed large sectors of international public opinion, for Washington and Tel Aviv opened a hold for other convenient. At the present time, it is clear that the first of these governments are not looking both support the regime impresentable Cairo as ensure the arrival of a national authority that is close and prone to its geostrategic interests, and to conjure, in particular, the possibility of isolating Israel in the region. The latter scenario concerns raised in the government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu is demonstrated by the deployment of Israeli troops to the border with Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula, and the fact that Tel Aviv has been the only government-along with the autocratic monarchy of Saudi Arabia, which has expressed its unequivocal support to Mubarak.
The clarity with which it has expressed the Egyptian people on the streets of that country, and its determination to take their democratic demands a point of no return, put the United States and its Western allies to the moral obligation to respond as soon as the claim that popular will, and deepen the international pressure on Mubarak leaves office. If, however, Washington chooses to prolong the agony of the regime in Cairo in order to protect their geopolitical interests and its regional ally, will cause further damage to its battered international image and put his supposed commitment to democratic values a new question.
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