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Tunisian elections: Islamic party leads race
Associated Press
Published: 23.10.11, 17:44
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1. All "democratic elections" in Springtime will end in Hamas clones wins
Alan ,   SA   (10.23.11)
2. Al Haji Obama will be pleased
Tarbouche ,   Aswan   (10.23.11)
he's paid back some of the debt from the Ikhwan who funded his presidential campaign. Egypt will work much off, and Libya some more But the bulk will depend on Iran and Syria being left alone.
3. No surprise here
Mike Caton ,   USA   (10.23.11)
This is just the beginning. The immanent victory of the Islamists in Tunisia foreshadows the total takeover of North africa and the Middle East by radical Islam. My putzident, Hussein knows this, and this is what he wants. Israel must prepare NOW for this terrible threat. P.S.the "arab spring "in Libia,after Gheddaffi. I predict that within 6 months to yea , Libia will be full-blown Radical Isla mic entity, much like Hezlebanon, Iran. Ditto Yemen, diito algeria --ditto, ditto, ditto.
4. the islamist spring begins
zionist forever   (10.24.11)
Assuming Egypt ever has the promised elections then almost certainly the Muslim Brotherhood will win alot of seats in the Egyptian parliament. The MB are not fielding an official candidate for the presidency although they are backing and funding El Baradei. It doesn't matter though who the president is because if the MB win big the president will back them. In Libya either there will be a tribal war which will plunge the country into civil war or the islamist will again probably be the dominant force and have a big role to play in the future government. In Syria Assad will fight as long as he can but eventually he is either going to be pulled out of a sewer and shot or he will go into exile. Whatever happens to Assad really doesn't matter because The Muslim Brotherhood will probably end up running the show. Like in Egypt in Syria the Muslim Brotherhood are the only opposition to the dictator and take him out the picture and they will be the dominant force. Another risk in Syria is Hezbollah will end up in government with the MB. With or without Assad Iranian influence in Syria won't go away overnight and they are in a good position to help Hezbollah get people elected to any future Syrian parliament, if they can pull it off in Lebanon I see no reason why they couldn't do the same in a post Assad Syria. If he is not careful King Abdullah of Jordan may be overthrown and if that happens Israel will find itself facing a possible terrorist run state where the terrorists are armed with American weapons. Imagine what Hamas could do with Stinger anti aircraft missiles or Javalin anti tank rockets. The Arab Spring will probably turn out to be an islamist revival rather than a the begining of a new peaceful and democratic Middle East which the west is fantasising about. For now the best thing to do is for the west to stop supplying arms to these arab regimes until we get a better idea of what these governments are going to be like long term.
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