This statement of Mubarak comes at a times of rising tensions between Sunni's and Shiites in the Arab World. Egypt recalled the country's diplomatic envoy from the Iranian capital earlier this week following an increase in tension between the two countries. Recent strain between Cairo and Teheran has grown as several demonstrations in Iran called for the hanging of the Egyptian leader. The Iranian FARS news service reported that participants in recent student demonstrations outside the Egyptian diplomatic mission in Teheran also chanted "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" and burned an Israeli flag.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Mubarak: The Persians want to devour the Arabs
This statement of Mubarak comes at a times of rising tensions between Sunni's and Shiites in the Arab World. Egypt recalled the country's diplomatic envoy from the Iranian capital earlier this week following an increase in tension between the two countries. Recent strain between Cairo and Teheran has grown as several demonstrations in Iran called for the hanging of the Egyptian leader. The Iranian FARS news service reported that participants in recent student demonstrations outside the Egyptian diplomatic mission in Teheran also chanted "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" and burned an Israeli flag.
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I don't know which came first, Mubarak's comments or Iran's recent urging of Egyptian and Saudi Arabian people to overthrow their governments for "treason" (read as: not hating Israel loudly enough).
Not that it matters which came first. Tensions are rising.
I do not know where it began; years ago, I fear. The Arabs see with apprehension how Iran (not Arab, not sunni) gains influence (Hizbollah, Hamas).
Saudi Arabia especially is afraid, as Eastern Saudi Arabia is heavily Shi'ite.
We see here a clash of civilizations; Arab vs. Persian. I fear that in the decades ahead, this will be bloody. Was the Iraq-Iran war (1980-1988) the beginning?
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