“Freedom is a bless that deserves fighting for it.”
CAIRO — The sea of people pulsated with energy, galvanized by the words of Wael Ghonim, the young Google executive who got the Mubarak treatment — 12-day disappearance, blindfolding, interrogation — before a tweet that will one day be etched in some granite memorial: "Freedom is a bless that deserves fighting for it."
So begins Wael Ghonim's Egypt, this morning's fantastic NY Times column by Roger Cohen. Read it.
Let me repeat myself. Read Cohen. Also, read Nicholas Kristof, in Obama and Egypt’s Future. These are two journalists who know Egypt.
But I want to focus on Cohen, in part because he is lesser to known to Americans (Kristof does have 2 Pulitzers), but also because people should remember this - he is a Jew writing about Arab Muslims who trust him.