Today Egypt is in uproar. The news channels are showing what live pictures they can and tonight they have started to repeat themselves as they usually do when they run out of 'new news'.
We called our neighbour Soly to see what he thought and to ask after his father who lives in Alexandria. Soly popped round and joined us for a cup of tea and assisted in my pub-sorting; which is an impressive size this week.
It was interesting to listen to an Egyptian-born man express his thoughts. It would be good, he suggested, if Egypt came out of this with a real democracy. He considered that then whoever was voted into power would be subject to the checks and balances of a democracy thus limiting extremism. Then he thought a bit and said, if we do see democracy, then it is likely that Egypt will become hostile to Israel. I believe he is likely to be right.
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