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America's Hard Cash and Soft Words Fail to Woo Arabs
(Telegraph-UK) Patrick Bishop - Each year America gives more than £1 billion to Egypt and each year its standing in the country sinks ever lower. Even Egyptian reformers distance their struggle from America. ''I want to make it absolutely clear that this demonstration has nothing to do with support for America," said Wael Khalil, at a rally this week in Cairo. George Ishak, coordinator of the Egyptian Movement for Change, whose simple slogan is "Kifaya" (enough), admitted that it would be political poison to have any contact with American officials.