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Generational Dynamics Web Log for 29-Apr-2012
29-Apr-12 World View -- Saudi Arabia recalls ambassador to Egypt after massive Cairo embassy protests

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29-Apr-12 World View -- Saudi Arabia recalls ambassador to Egypt after massive Cairo embassy protests

Analysts await North Korea's next major provocation

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Saudi Arabia recalls ambassador to Egypt after massive Cairo embassy protests
Syria's regime makes harsh attack on U.N. peace plan
Analysts await North Korea's next major provocation

Saudi Arabia recalls ambassador to Egypt after massive Cairo embassy protests

Egyptian protesters demonstrate in front of the Saudi Embassy in Cairo on Tuesday. (AP)

Egyptian protesters demonstrate in front of the Saudi Embassy in Cairo on Tuesday. (AP)

Saudi Arabia has recalled its ambassador to Egypt and ordered the temporary closure of its embassy in Cairo and consulates in Alexandria and Suez. This comes after hundreds of Egyptians have been demonstrating in front of the Saudi embassy in Cairo and attempted "to storm and threaten the security and safety of its employees of both Saudi and Egyptian nationality." They were protesting Saudi Arabia's arrest of Ahmed El-Gezawi on charges of having 21,000 pills of the anxiety drug Xanax in his luggage. The Egyptians are claiming he wasn't that anxious, but was arrested merely for insulting Saudi's King Abdullah. Saudi Arabia and Egypt have long had very close ties during the reign of Egypt's president Hosni Mubarak, before he was deposed by the Egyptian protesters early last year. Egypt is now in serious financial trouble, and Saudi last week agreed to send $2.7 billion to Egypt, so the current split sends a strong message to the Cairo government. Arab News and Reuters

Syria's regime makes harsh attack on U.N. peace plan

I'm still waiting for the United Nations Syria "peace plan" to collapse completely, but former and current Secretaries-General Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-Moon keep making excuses for the Bashar al-Assad regime's continuing bloody slaughter of innocent Arab citizens. However, they've been getting less deferential in the last few days, and on Friday, Ban said Syria's repression of civilians reached an "intolerable stage" and demanded that the regime "live up to its promises to the world." This has triggered a furious response from the al-Assad regime. An editorial in the state-run newspaper on Saturday said that Ban has been making "outrageous" statements against the Syrian regime, and has ignored the "crimes and terrorist acts" of the opposition. Later Saturday, Syrian troops bombarded the Damascus suburb of Bakhaa with tank shells after a group of army defectors fled to the area from a nearby region, apparently to punish innocent civilians who had nothing to do with the defectors. AP

Analysts await North Korea's next major provocation

Analysts believe that North Korea's new child leader, Kim Jong-un, will have to do something fairly quickly to prove to everyone that he's capable of controlling a large army. This is particularly important to him now, after last week's spectacular humiliating failure of a long-range missile test. A new underground nuclear bomb test is almost a certainty, but there may be other provocations as well, specifically directed at what the (North) Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) the "rats" in the south, led by South Korean president Lee Myung-bak:

"The time has come when we should show in actuality the might of our armed forces to the Lee Myung-bak swarm of rats hell-bent on hideous wrongdoings, ... to bury those disgusting rats in the South Sea once a sacred war starts. Supreme Commander, please give us an order."

The "order" from Kim Jong-un might be to stage a surprise attack reminiscent of those two incidents in the Yellow Sea in 2010 - the sinking of the navy ship the Cheonan and the shelling of Yeongpyeong Island - which together killed 50 people. However, the reason that 2012 is different from 2010 is that now the South Koreans are fully prepared to retaliate if such an order is given. Asia Times

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