Current Edition About Subscribe The Jerusalem Center

Daily Alert Archive

Every Daily Alert Since 2002

Search

Search more than 90,000 news items by topic, author, or source.
Use " " to search for multiple words and phrases.

Trending Topics

September 12, 2005       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/opinion/11sun3.html

Egypt's Imitation Election

(New York Times) Editorial - On Friday Husni Mubarak was officially declared the winner of Egypt's presidential elections, collecting 88.5% of the votes. Compared with the real democracy that Egypt's 76 million people need and deserve, the election was an elaborate and largely meaningless sham. Egyptians need real democracy so that they can demand an end to the corruption and nepotism that stifle economic and educational opportunity and a halt to the social and political injustices that fuel sterile cycles of violent unrest and repression.

View the full edition of Daily Alert

Back to Archive

Subscribe to Daily Alert: