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[ARMENIAN CYPRIOT]

If you are from Greece it would also be strange to be anti-immigrant since they have around 10 million people living abroad.

[Get Real!]

Where are you from then ????

He’s just a thoroughbred idiot!

[ARMENIAN CYPRIOT]

The way you despise Arabs leads me to believe you are from the USA.

[yialousa1971]

The way you despise Arabs leads me to believe you are from the USA.

Where did I say this?

[wyoming cowboy]

The way you despise Arabs leads me to believe you are from the USA.

Here is a good American song about A rabs


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLB15kBvn_c

[Get Real!]

With Israel’s ME allies (Turkey and Egypt) now gone, you can expect Israel to cozy up to Cyprus a lot more…

[Lit]

First plane with US citizens arrives in Cyprus

Officials said they expected as many as 1,000 people escaping continued unrest in Egypt to pass through the island today as countries evacuate citizens.

One military plane carrying 42-embassy staff from Cairo has already landed in Cyprus.

James Ellickson Brown, the Public Affairs Officer of the US Embassy Nicosia said his team are prepared for the influx of evacuees: “We have been mobilized since Saturday evening getting ready for this. We have about 30 people out here, its job number one at the embassy now taking care of these Americans that come here.”

According to Adamos Aspris, the spokesman at Larnaca airport, most of the evacuees will be American citizens.

“The process of evacuation concerns mainly American citizens, according to the Cyprus Minister of Foreign Affairs, the foreign nationals will be allowed entry and will have provisional lodgings until their departure for the USA or Europe.”

A plane carrying another 180 US citizens is expected early this evening.

FAMAGUSTA GAZETTE
• Mon, Jan 31, 2011

[Lit]

1st Americans evacuated from Egypt
Looters arrested at antiquities museum; world leaders call for orderly transition

http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs. ... /101310342

By Menelaos Hadjicostis
of The Associated Press

CAIRO — The first Americans to be evacuated from Egypt landed in Cyprus today as opposition groups called for a million people to protest Tuesday in Cairo and world leaders ramped up pressure for an orderly transition to democracy.

Meanwhile, soldiers detained about 50 men trying to break into the Egyptian National Museum in a fresh attempt to loot some of the country's archaeological treasures, the military said.

Troops patrolled the grounds of the famed antiquities museum amid fears that the chaos sweeping Cairo could endanger the nation's heritage. Some of the most intense protests have occurred near the museum.

A U.S. military plane landed at Larnaca Airport in Cyprus this afternoon, ferrying 42 U.S. Embassy officials and their dependents from Egypt. James Ellickson-Brown from the U.S. Embassy in Nicosia said at least one more plane was expected today with about 180 people — most of them U.S. citizens.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Janice Jacobs said Sunday she expects it will take several flights over the coming days to fly out the thousands of Americans who want to leave Egypt.

In Cairo, thousands of people crammed inside the international airport's new Terminal 3 trying to get flights out.

“It's an absolute zoo, what a mess,” said Justine Khanzadian, 23, a graduate student from the American University of Cairo who was waiting at the airport for hours. “I decided to leave because of the protests. The government here is just not stable enough to stay.”

Meanwhile, spokesmen for a coalition of opposition groups were meeting today to develop a unified strategy for ousting President Hosni Mubarak.

The Muslim Brotherhood, which wants to form an Islamist state in the Arab world's largest nation, said it wouldn't take a leadership role. Western governments and secular Egyptians have expressed concerns about the Brotherhood.

On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appealed for an orderly transition to democracy in Egypt. She refused to speculate on the future of the 82-year-old Mubarak.

[Get Real!]

EU OKs sanctions against Ben Ali and wife

The European Union said Monday it plans to impose an asset freeze on ousted former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his wife.

The 27 EU foreign ministers said at their monthly meeting that they also will do their utmost to help the North African nation move toward full democracy after autocratic Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia on Jan. 14 following widespread violent protests over corruption and repression.

Tunisia has issued an international arrest warrant for Ben Ali, accusing him of taking money out of the country illegally.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41356753/ns ... tn_africa/

[Schnauzer]

Good Luck and God Bless the protesters in Egypt, such poverty and repression that those people have endured over the past few decades is a clear indictment of just how much the Western powers (despite protestations to the contrary) really care for the dignity of mankind.

Such poverty and repression has no place in the 21st century.

Israel is all 'A'tremble' at the possibility of an Islamic neighbour, if such a situation does emerge from whatever 'Deals' the Western powers may be able to 'Broker' , one can only hope that Israel's 'New Neighbours' will treat them a little more kindly than Israel has treated the inhabitants of the country they stole (courtesy of the 'Brokering' abilities of the West) the borders of which have since vastly expanded.

As one (or was it one million ?) protesters called out......."Allahu Akbar"........ no wonder Israel is all 'A'tremble'. (imho)