Days of Rage …

Hmmm …

You know, I’ve got to be honest, I don’t think I’m worried about the Middle East.

I’ve no family on holiday out there.

No relatives living there, or married to an Egyptian national.

Still …

Knowing that the country that many see as the stabilising lynch-pins of the Middle East is …

Hmm …

Not worrying, per sé, but certainly concerning.

After all, I’ve read much about assorted troubles in Israel, over the years: and sort of expect it.

Grown up with it, in point of fact.

I wrote — long enough ago to know I’m blowed if I can find the reference — about how hearing relatives say “I can remember where I was when so-and-so died” didn’t make sense ’til I’d heard about my first dead celebrity.

Princess Diana, I seem to recall.

I also know that I’ve seen a few references in the media to 1989: and how the trouble that started in Tunisia and the equivalent in Egypt are the Middle Eastern version of the fall of Communist governments in eastern Europe.

I’m not to sure about that: although if any other countries around the Gulf start to fizz …

At any rate, I was saying that I didn’t know if the Fall of Communism was a good comparison: I can remember living through 1989 and seeing the news reports.

I don’t know: I do know Egypt’s Mubarak regime has generally been friendly to Israel.

I also know that many have been looking at the likes of The Muslim Brotherhood and wondering what they’ll do, with all this lot going on.

Me too.

You see, I can — while I was remember growing up —seeing the news of the fall of the Shah of Iran.

Which, again, wasn’t worrying: but did tell me how something of a somewhat conservative* regime could get to power.

I hope things don’t go that way in Egypt.

But while I’m reminded of the Iranian Revolution … ?

I’m also thinking of The Cuban Missile Crisis.

And World War 1.

Domino after domino, after domino …

Hey ho.

The one (minor) annoyance in the middle of all this … ?

Is that the BBC News Channel hasn’t shown this week’s episode of Click.

* Someone I knew once, swore blind that the Ayatollah led government of Iran was outright evil. I quietly told them it was no sillier than having a head of state who’d got the job because they were the eldest child of the last one. The conversation got heated after that …