07.02.2011                     03.Adar l, 5771

Analyse:

From Pro-Tahrir Square to deep ambivalence

The media’s failure and the disenchantment of an Israeli observer watching a "velvet revolution" unfold in the largest Arab country.

The news and the images from Cairo and across Egypt that spread across the world, beginning on January 25, moved and inspired millions.
While the uncertainty about Egypt’s future and what it meant for Israel was very worrying, watching a “velvet revolution” unfold in the Arab world’s largest country was an amazing story of people power and unarmed determination trumping tyranny and fear….