When I see this kind of reaction, I can't help but think that the speaker is a "True Believer" in democracy and mob rule (in the Eric Hoffer sense). I readily concede that I know nothing about Egypt or what is going on there, but don't you think it's a little too early to congratulate and feel happy for the people? You even admit that no one knows what the country will be like in the next few years, but you want to celebrate, simply because they overthrew their president!

Guilty as charged. I am a "True Believer" in Democracy. Also, I believe truly that power and the right to govern is bestowed by the people. Clearly the people carried the day in Egypt.

Nobody knows what tomorrow will bring but it will not be under the foot of a dictator at least we know that - and how could that be bad? Am I scared that things will not go so well, sure. But I'm an optimist and I got to work for and I got to hope that things will work out for the best - for Egyptians, for Arabs, for Muslims, for Africans, for Israel, for Americans and for all people who want to be free.

> Nobody knows what tomorrow will bring but it will not be under the foot of a dictator at least we know that - and how could that be bad

In 1917 the Russian people got themselves out from under the foot of the Romanovs and into the hands of the Bolsheviks.

    Mazal Tov to the people of Egypt!

Why would you congratulate the people of Egypt in Hebrew?

I'd suspect that after enduring 30 years of struggle against a dictator that they wouldn't care what language they were cheered in. Most people just want to live in peace, it's only those who have an axe to grind that incite things by worrying what language someone is congratulated in.

Hebrew is my mother-tongue, I have no axe to grind.

Why would it matter?

It wouldn't, I assumed you spoke neither languages and have mistaken "mazal tov" for Arabic.

It's "mabruk" btw.