Egyptian blogger does Israeli TV monologue, gets arrested before it's shown
Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil was shown giving a monologue about his country by Israel's Cable Channel 10 on Sunday, and told Israelis that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is not our friend (well, we knew that, but we don't think the Muslim Brotherhood is our friend either). Here's the interview, which was conducted in English.Let's go to the videotape.
Nabil says that Mubarak was the source of anti-Israel propaganda in Egypt, and that he believes that democracy will bring the two countries together. For those who read Hebrew, you can read a summary of his talk here. Kumbaya....
On Monday, Nabil was arrested and tortured by Egyptian security. I'm going to screen capture his post just in case his blog gets taken down.
I guess it's no surprise that none of the other Egyptian bloggers who were invited on the air by Channel 10 was willing to talk to them.By the way, Nabil is a pacifist, which probably has a lot to do with his much more conciliatory views toward Israel. He genuinely doesn't hate us. Much of his blog is devoted to his resistance to joining the Egyptian military.
He tells the full story of his arrest and torture (unfortunately, only in Arabic) here.
Labels: blogosphere, Channel 10, Egyptian regime change, Hosni Mubarak, Maikel Nabil, Muslim Brotherhood
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:08 PM
4 Comments:
He's about halfway there. He wants support from Israel, but doesn't say how a "pacifist" such as himself will face down the rocket smugglers or the suicide bombers, how he will protect the Christians and Jews in Egypt... because his pacifism could conceivably do a worse job of stopping religious or cultural violence than Mubarak? Still seems like out of the frying pan and into the fire. The Iranian protests seemed a little like that too because they never called for leaving the neighbors (internal and external) alone...
He sounds so much like the young Iranian idealists in 1979....
There are a few genuinely moderate and likable people in Egypt and I'm sure Carl knows a few but you can't exactly "out" them - they'll be tortured and killed. That's the world we live in today.
Thanks, Carl for your support
I published English version about what happened to me
http://www.maikelnabil.com/2011/02/story-of-2-days-i-spent-at-egyptian.html
We are in 2011 not in 1979... this isn't an islamic revolution. so I refuse to compare it with the Iranian revolution. people here are calling for civil state not a religious one
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