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"Tunisians and Algerians are hungry. The Egyptians and Yemenis are right behind them," Emirati commentator Mishaal al-Gergawi wrote in the Dubai-based newspaper Gulf News. "Mohammad Bouazizi didn't set himself on fire because he couldn't blog or vote. People set themselves on fire because they can't stand seeing their family wither away slowly, not of sorrow, but of cold stark hunger."

ففي تونس العاصمة تجمّع المئات أمام مقر وزارة الداخلية رافعين شعارات منها "الشعب يريد إسقاط الحكومة" و"السفاح في السعودية والحكومة هيّ هيّ" و"الرحيل الرحيل يا عصابة إسرائيل".

There is a reason why a national unity government which includes the opposition has been so difficult to stitch together in Tunisia. It is because remnants of the old regime are trying to ride a tidal wave over which they have no control. It is only when they all go, and fresh elections held, that political calm will be restored.

If nothing else happens, the idea that the Arab world needs ageing dictators as a bulwark against the rising tide of Islamism has been holed below the water line.

only free elections will begin to address Egypt's political problems