The Egyption re-revolution certianly hasn't resulted in any outpouring of liberal democray or any less anti-Israeli and anti-Semitism sentiments in Egypt.
Alleged spy arrested in Egypt is US law student
A man who Egyptian authorities have arrested on charges of being an Israeli spy is a 27-year-old American-Israeli law student who was doing an internship at a nonprofit organization in Cairo, a classmate said Monday.
Egypt says Ilan Grapel is a Mossad agent, and pictures of him in Israeli military uniform have been published in Egyptian papers. The semiofficial Al-Ahram daily identified him in a headline as a "Mossad officer who tried to sabotage the Egyptian revolution."
Horror of horrors look at the incirminating stuff he had:
Grapel was equipped with "communication devices, laptops, CDs, and flash memory," the paper reported.Tourists and students visiting Egypt beware, your everyday carry on laptop and cell phone just became grounds to get you arrested for espionage.
As the article dryly notes:
Egypt, like other Arab states, has a long history of blaming internal problems on Israeli saboteurs.No kidding. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose and all that.
Anybody that seriously believed that Egypt was going to transform into a rational, liberalized western-style democracy with respect for minority rights was seriously deluding themselves.
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