You see little Nounou (as Grandpa Michel Murr calls her) believes that the only true 'revolution' in the region was the CedarCloset Revolution, bankrolled by the Bushies & the Saudis. Revolutions like Egypt's tectonic shift is not to her liking: Firstly, it eliminates a staunch ally of March 14 (Mubarak) and simply annoys all her patron saints!
"... Saudi-affiliated press followed the lead of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud's public support for the Mubarak regime and emphasized chaos and looting in the streets, some of which it blamed on the protesters. On Tuesday, the day an estimated quarter million Egyptians gathered in central Cairo to demand Mr. Mubarak's ouster, the main headline on the newspaper Asharq Al Awsat read, "Mubarak Responded to the Demands of the People."
As'ad AbuKhalil, a Lebanese professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus, and curator of the popular Angry Arab News Service blog, said a key trend in the region's media coverage was "the extent to which Saudi-owned media showed panic." "They try to deflect criticisms to their own oppressive government by drawing some imaginary lines between Gulf dictatorships and other dictatorships," Mr. AbuKhalil said...... Much of Lebanon's media celebrated the uprising, drawing parallels to its own Cedar Revolution in 2005. Yet Nayla Tueni, deputy general manager of Lebanon's pro-Western daily An-Nahar, penned a grave warning on democracy in the Arab world in a Monday editorial titled "Arab Change…Towards The Unknown."..... said in the editorial that the region's lack of experience with democracy and its dependence on foreign forces meant change often only comes with chaos and "bloodbaths." Hezbollah-sympathetic Al Akhbar pushed the U.S.-Israel angle and carried a special series of editorials with headlines like "And Thus, America Failed To Read Egypt" and "Israel Fears Clone Of The Iranian Regime In Egypt."
Posted by G, Z, or B at 3:17 PM
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