SNAPSHOT ON A FEW HOT ISSUES:

Yemen:

 As predicted, Yemen continued down a dangerous path in the past 24 hrs.

How much the fighting escalates is hard to tell right now, but the possibility of slowing things down anytime soon are not good.

If the fighting escalates to military units on military units, then the next phase could be much worse.

I don’t hold out much hope for Yemen calming down.

Israel:

Binyamin Netanyahu set what the Arab’s consider a very hard line for future talks with the PA.

To young members of  Hamas and other fanatical groups, the future is nothing but violence!

Morocco:

There is trouble brewing there and the indications are things could get worse in the near future.

The police there are taking a harder line than in the past few months and that could set in motion violent times.

Egypt:

Announcing Mubarak is gong to stand trial for the deaths of the protestors is going to entrench the GCC state’s leaders more than ever.

The announced new round of protest set for the end of the week may not get the reception from the military they have in the past.

The Egyptian government is about to reach it’s end with people marching in the streets.

The next round of protest could turn ugly.

Syria:

Over 1000 dead!

Egypt total was 800!!!

Today was somewhat quiet, but the indications are the protestors are starting to realize they are unorganized and a quiet spell could mean ‘ plotting’ is taking place.

I can assure you that is the opinion of the Assad administration.

No protest on the streets right now is a dangerous sign in the opinion of the Syrian government.

I am beginning to believe Syria is going to see Lebanon as a ‘breading ground’ for opposition plotting.

Lebanon:

Ok; this is the one that really has me worried!

Lebanon is facing a dangerous future on two fronts.

1. The future of Hezbollah depends on the future of Syria.
2. The sectarian sides continue to grow more paranoid of events in Syria.

Some many things could ignite the flames in Lebanon, I don’t see how this will not eventually happen.

The UN / STL issue will have to be carefully controlled or it might just push the country into civil war.

Several other countries with issues are boiling as I right this post.

The Middle East and North Africa are so volitie it is nearly impossible to track every issue.

Oh ya!

I will look at Spain in the next few days.

It appears someone is trying to get the ‘ Tunisian Virus’ spreading in Spain.