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Young Secularists Leading Egyptian Revolution Are Anti-Israel
(VOA News) Peter Clottey - Gamal Nkrumah, editor of the Al Ahram newspaper in Egypt, told VOA there are no indications that beleaguered President Hosni Mubarak will step down and cede power, despite popular demands by protesters that he do so. The protesters are calling for a million-person march in the capital, Cairo, on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the Egyptian military said Monday it recognizes the "legitimate demands" of the Egyptian people and it vowed not to "use force" against the public. "The people in charge of the people's revolution now taking Egypt by storm are young secularist people, who are not Islamists. I think what the West is afraid of is that, for the past three decades, President Mubarak and his governments have been the chief allies of the West in terms of keeping the peace with Israel," said Nkrumah. "What they are afraid of in the West, in Washington in particular, is that, if the people power revolution reaches its logical conclusion, what we will see is a government that is not necessarily Islamist....It is not just the Islamists that are anti-Israel; secularists, the left, socialists, youngsters who do not even identify themselves as political activists are anti-Israel."