First of all, I totally reject and condemn any explanation for the fall of Mubarak being caused by some nebulous world wide Jewish conspiracy. As I believe its purely anti-Semitic hokum that has been responsible for a lot of mainly European Christian stinking thinking.
But still we can go back in world history some 3000 years and find that Egypt was one of the world dominant powers at the time. And ask why, what was true then, has never been true ever since? Maybe part of the cause may be climate change, as rain fall moved further north, as the rising power of first Greece and then Rome could support larger populations and hence armies. And then as the climate warmed to the North, most of Europe became potential farmland.
The we can say something else, while ancient Egypt was one of the first world nations to organize their people into a national workforce and start using engineering to build cities and monuments, Egyptian leaders wasted those efforts to build pyramids that really benefited no one. Not so with the rising power of Rome, as they built roads and aqueducts, and systems of trade to extend their empire. While the Roman legions already led the world on organized warfare. So even before the time of Christ, Egypt became a Roman possession.
Ever since, Egypt has never regained its former power, despite being the largest Arab nation blessed with Nile River that floods every year. Plus Egypt has the economic benefits of the Suez canal and has finally has completed the Azwan dam. And with good and wise leadership it is finally poised to become an economic powerhouse.
As we can also go back 60 years to Nassar, maybe a feel good leader for Egypt, as Nassar made a bid to lead the Arab world. But in so doing, Nassar over reached, and found himself on the wrong end of the US, the Brits, and France and set Egypt back decades as a result. And also found the Western powers backing Israel as a counter balance to Egypt.
As a result in terms of Western help and economic development aid to Egypt and its people, Israel was subsidized to the tune of many thousands of dollars per capita of population, while the Egyptian people got less than $8.00 a year per capita under the rule of Mubarak. And worse yet, Mubarak and his cronies pocketed any Western aid money and the Egyptian people never saw a penny of it.
Which largely explains why Murarak fell when the Arab spring occurred because greedy Hosni even forgot to enrich the Egyptian military. As we have to understand something else. Because the leaders of the street protests were largely young Western educated asking why the lootocracy of Murarak was not benefiting the people of Egypt as they wanted reforms. Nor were they all that anti-Semitic or pro-islmic, as their grievances were mainly economic. As their main agenda was Mubarak had to go. And they won when the Egyptian army refused to shoot their own people.
Sadly, IMHO, the young technocrats who lead the revolution and had the right ideas for the future, forgot to organize politically and offer a slate of election candidates. And as they instead rested on their laurels, it was Egyptian opportunity lost at least in the short term.
And as a result, the candidates who stood for election were mainly ex-Murarak toads, members of the formerly outlawed Muslim brotherhood, or even more extreme reactionary Salift Islamic nuts who also organized into a political party.
So given the basic fact that the Egyptian electorate will not vote to return to Mubarak type rule, the winner was going to be either a MB member or a even more nutty Salfist,
Cheer up, we could have gotten a Salfist. And who knows, if Mursi, as a formerly jailed head of state, can prove even to be even 25% as wise as Nelson Mandela, both Egypt and the larger mid-east will be better off for it.
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