Social media sets "new world Order" in building revolutions throughout the Middle East?

While the revolt began in Tunisia by asking a long dictator to resign, Egypt is the suite of Jasmine revolution of recent Tunisian seeking reform, freedom and respect by using social media to organizecommunicate and express their feelings to the world, but say their dictators "it is the end of your rule and now is our time to make the weather change you it or not."

Young catalysts for Twitter, Facebook and social media are behind the driving force of the revolution in Tunisia and Egypt, but also in Jordan and the Yemen, where the role of social media has proven a new world order in digital social communication to break down the totalitarian regimes everywhere in Middle East. Non-stop-measurement youth young embryonic, the elite educated in the Arab world is talking about seeking freedom. Yes, freedom is a high commodity especially in the Arab world where there is no genuine democracies, and yet the decades of totalitarian regimes took power of their people and turned them into modern slaves. In addition, elite blocked the Egypt is talking about after thirty years of selfish rule unprecedented who stole their dignities by keeping them away from engage in the decision-making process, take their future responsibilities are now fighting for their pride in the establishment of the road map to earn freedom, the right to express themselves, it goes without saying that to earn respect by rewriting of history that makes them citizens proud of their change forced to set a better example not only in Egypt, but also to other dictators in Middle East and in the world. Now, social media set fear dictatorships in the Arab world where dictatorships of the Egypt close all social networks and communications to put pressure on young youth to stop their uprising, but that is not only against the totalitarian regime, instead, it sparked anger more and gave the youth more reason not to give up that easily, and yet embrace the fight for freedom in the end, then Mr. Mubarak is the witness of his last moments of the 30 year rule.

Go social in the digital world is implementing a new world order by the conduct of change and lower dictators, at least in the Arab world. The young elite blocked the Egypt seek the change of the reform of the system, free elections and the possibility of choosing their own leaders, to ask their basic civil rights to be heard and respected; But realization, it is even more complicated when chaos takes over the streets and sets a whole new ball game. Social media plays a vital role to make it possible to change and to give these young rebels a tool was unprecedented before having the ability to break down the dictators and set a new world order in digital communications.

Important facts about the Egypt, according to the latest figures from CIA FactBook: 2010

Population: 80 million

Median age: 24 years

GDP: Some 216.8 billion (2009)

Per capita income: $6 (year/GDP-PPP 2010)

Unemployment: 9.7% (EST).

Poverty: 40%

Strategic interests in the world:

Israeli/Egyptian peace treaty signed in 1979.
It is estimated that 10% of world demand for oil crude passes through the Suez Canal.
The largest population in the Middle East
Egypt receives almost $2-3 billion aid each year to the United States.
The Egypt is the proprietor of artifacts and ancient treasures.
The pyramids are one of the wonders of the world top of the page.
A world destination for tourists, which makes one of the tourist destinations in the world markets.

Popular tags of hash used for the "revolt in Egypt" on Twitter:

technology # release
freedom of # social
Revolution # Twitter
# Revolution SM
# Egypt
# jan25
# Freedom
# Tahrir
# Cairo
# Reform
# Protest
# Democracy
# support
# Liberty
# civil liberty
# Uprising
# Mona Altahawy

For the more recent sense analysis of the Egypt of the uprising since it began there on January 25, 2011; eight days you can always bind here.

Ramy Ghaly is a Marketing Strategist with more than ten years experience in international markets. He has held professional positions and managers in different world markets in various industries ranging from retail, wholesale, consumer goods, the management of technology with a concentration in development channel products. In addition, he holds a diploma in International Marketing Management with a minor in International Relations and studies of the Middle East of Daytona State College. He is interested in the evolution of social media, next generation search technologies, engines, semantic search and text analytics; Needless to say that strategies in geopolitics, Middle Eastern Studies and environmental factors that affect the growth of world trade are of general interest this always eager to monitor and encourage the writings on the subject.

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UK beats Israel: the Government and the Media to blame

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By R. Taylor

The current UK Government is 'the most hostile to Israel in living memory.' So says Melanie Phillips, formerly a respected UK journalist now better known for her militant anti-Islam stance and her Israel-is-never-wrong/blame-everyone-else rants.

And maybe she is right. But as all previous UK governments have meekly toed the Zionist line, it wouldn’t be saying very much. After all Gordon Brown, Cameron’s predecessor, was honorary president of the Jewish National Fund, Brown succeeded Tony Blair (need one say more), he followed Major/Thatcher and so on. Nevertheless David Cameron’s coalition is voicing the kinds of criticism of Israel’s policies that have rarely been heard before

A particular beef for Phillips (or Mad Mel as she is often referred to nowadays) was the government’s failure to support Israel in the United Nations on the issue of West Bank settlements. In her blog for The Spectator magazine on 22nd Feb she berates Cameron and co. with the following. “While the British Prime Minister David Cameron is in Egypt hymning the prospect there of democracy and human rights.....what has been overlooked is that this same David Cameron has chosen this of all moments to push the one and only democracy in the region, Israel, under the Islamist bus. While America finally vetoed the UN motion slamming Israel’s ‘illegal’ settlements because it went too far even for Obama, Britain voted in favour.”

Leaving aside her bizarre views that settlements are neither legally nor morally wrong, it does seem that UK Zionists are becoming increasingly alarmed about changing attitudes in the UK towards Israel. Long-used to a situation where the Zionist narrative was accepted virtually without question, Mel and others can’t quite believe that things have changed; that the romantic view of poor little Israel has faded in the West, that the Palestinian narrative is now much more accessible and that even our politicians have taken note.

Benedict Brogan of the Daily Telegraph is another who is concerned. He praises Cameron for a recent speech to a Jewish audience in which he described his belief in Israel as “indestructible”, but then asks why Israeli PM Netanyahu is so worried about the UK and the apparent decline of its backing for Israel. “The truth,” he laments, “is that relations between Jerusalem and London are bad, drifting to worse. …..At a time when the affairs of the Middle East should preoccupy us all, Britain gives the impression of being indifferent to the concerns of a country that is not just the only democracy in the neighbourhood, but also one of our paramount allies in the fight against militant Islam.” Brogan then quotes the dark warning from Israeli Ambassador to the UK, Ron Prosor, that the undermining of Israel even reaches “back to Her Majesty’s Government”.

Worse than that though, Brogan asserts that the “UK has turned from an indestructible ally into a gullible host for the global campaign to undermine its legitimacy,” and has become “an echo chamber for a coalition of religious and political campaign groups and academics of all stripes - some of them Jewish - pumping out a propaganda campaign of explicit and implicit hostility to Israel.” Brogan’s solution to all this?  “Cameron should find a reason to visit his friends (Israel) and tell them, face to face, why our links are indestructible.”

Edgar Davidson is a lesser known Zionist blogger but he is quite certain where much of the blame lies. His blog piece of February 20th 2011 includes a revealing anecdote. “If you need to know the depth to which the British media has indoctrinated the public with anti-Israel feelings,” he suggests helpfully, “then I can give no better example than the following: My daughter, who goes to an orthodox Jewish school, tells me that, when the subject of Israel is discussed in their Jewish studies GCSE class, students routinely state things like "the Jews have no right to Israel because they stole the land from the Palestinians". In making statements like that, those regular 15-16 year old Jewish kids, are simply repeating what they are told relentlessly in every part of the media”. Perhaps, Edgar. But, it could just be that these Jewish kids are better informed than their parents, have a greater grasp of the notion of justice and recognize that the concept of human rights applies to Palestinians too. Don’t underestimate them.

The media malaise is not confined to the usual suspects - the BBC, Channel 4 and The Guardian. It is even to be found in the UK Jewish press. In December, under the heading “The JC (Jewish Chronicle) Sinks Lower and Lower”, Edgar tells his readers that, “rapidly the JC is morphing into a Guardian look-alike, with its increasingly central contributions from anti-Zionists.” He bemoans the fact “Nicholas Saphir, the Chair of the anti-Zionist New Israel Fund (UK), is a trustee of the Kessler Foundation, which owns the Jewish Chronicle. Last week the New Israel Fund had a 4-page pullout in the JC, and rarely a week goes by nowadays without some major positive focus/article about the NIF.” This will never do.

What really worries Zionists in the UK though is the thought that they are losing the propaganda battle and their ability to ensure mainstream politicians don’t step too much out of line, or if they do go off-message, the capacity to set them on the straight-and-narrow again. A couple of examples from recent years illustrate the point.

In 2006, during Israel’s war on Lebanon William Hague was the Shadow Foreign Secretary. He had the temerity to use the word “disproportionate” when describing Israel’s military actions. A leading Zionist hit out at Hague and told The Spectator that his words comments were “not merely unhelpful” but “downright dangerous.” This was enough to secure a solemn undertaking from Hague’s boss Cameron that the ‘d’ word would not be used again. Suspicions regarding Hague still lingered, however, and in 2008 he was grilled by arch-Zionist journalist Danny Finkelstein at the Conservative Friends of Israel annual bash. “Are you a Zionist ?” he was asked. A discomfited and apologetic Hague had to agree. Later that year when Israel launched Operation Cast Lead against Gaza, the ‘d’ word did not pass his lips.

In the run up to the general election of 2010, the dramatic rise in popularity of Lib-Dem leader Nick Clegg posed a similar problem. Hadn’t he criticised Israel for its bombing of civilians in Gaza? Couldn’t he be in the next government, maybe even Foreign Secretary? Clegg would have to explain himself. Backtracking feverishly, he duly did so in the Jewish Chronicle saying his comments were made because of his genuine concern that Israel’s actions ran “counter to its best interests” - no mention of the interests of the people of Gaza, the slaughter of innocents and breaches of international law.

But what now? Opinion in the UK has shifted decisively away from blind acceptance of anything Israel does. The politicians, fed up no doubt with Netanyahu’s lies, here have tagged along, perhaps seeing for the first time that the UK’s interests do not automatically coincide with those of Israel. Aware too that the ‘peace process’ is just that - a process, with no end in sight and that supporting Israel’s policies of grabbing as much land as possible from the Palestinians is inherently dangerous to Britons.

An exchange in the House of Commons on Monday 14th is indicative of the changes. During Prime Minister’s Questions the following exchange took place;

Sir Gerald Kaufman (Labour) Will the right honourable gentleman join me in condemning utterly the slaughter inflicted on the Fogel family in a West Bank settlement over the weekend? Does he agree that no response to that savagery could be more futile than the building of further settlements, and the only way to stop this useless slaughter of innocent people - both Jews and Palestinians - is for Israel to sit down and talk?

The Prime Minister: The right honourable Gentleman is entirely right. Like others I read about the case over the weekend and found what happened extremely disturbing. Anyone who has been to Jerusalem and seen the settlement building, particularly around East Jerusalem, can understand why the Palestinians feel so strongly about building on their land. There is a danger of the two-state solution being built away if we are not careful. That is why this Government has always taken a strong view about the settlements.

It is hard to imagine a British PM speaking this way in the past, especially so soon after an event such as the massacre in Itamar colony. The times certainly are a-changing and Zionists are scared.

- R. Taylor contributed this article to PalestineChronicle.com.