"It's now becoming a vendetta between the protesters and the army, " said Wael Abbas, an prodemocracy blogger, in front of parliament on Friday afternoon.
Instead of giving a boost to prodemocracy activists, the Olympics will strengthen the dictators' conviction that they can do as they please, both at home and abroad.
Given the Western media's obsessive coverage of the Arab-Israel conflict, at first blush it seems odd that they would ignore the prevalence of anti-Semitism among the presumably prodemocracy protesters.