“A Middle Eastern Epic”

Robert Fisk on yesterday’s events in Egypt:

this is a Middle Eastern epic, one of those incremental moments when the Arab people — forgotten, chastised, infantilised, repressed, often beaten, tortured too many times, occasionally hanged — will still strive to give the great wheel of history a shove, and shake off the burden of their lives. Last night, however, dictatorship had still won. Democracy had lost.

All eyes are on today..