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Hanukkah was celebrated amid tight security in Cairo's Meyr Biton Synagogue. Yet Magda Haroun, head of Egypt's tiny Jewish community, looks forward to the day when all of Egypt's synagogues will be open for prayer and celebrations.
>> shep: the american flag over our embassy in cairo, egypt, ripped down and burned today. a large group of ultraconservative muslim protesters managed to scale the very high walls there, shred the flag, set it afire, then replace it with the black flag bearing the muslim profession of faith. hundreds of protesters marched on the embassy earlier today. they say they are furious over a video which demonstrators claim was made here in the united states, a video they say is insulting to islam. now those protesters are demanding that the u.s. ambassador, who wasn't even there at the time, lead egy...
Condition is. we heard heart and blood -- >> and nervous breakdown. >> and how he has ruled egypt, he has had health problems where he had gallbladder surgery a year ago, but it was all under tight wraps and how he ran the country. it was only 2009 that a blogger who wrote about his medical issues was locked up. so it is not something that was spoken about. >> you only write about that once. >> exactly. >> and he is like, 82? >> yes, 82. he is not a young man and he has not been well for a while. >> you have to believe that they had their chance, right, to leave. to leave egypt and maybe they ...
>> reporter: this man isn't budging either. "local media is saying that we're traitors," he tells us. "that foreign powers are paying us and that we're eating kentucky fried chicken." it doesn't really look like it. the kfc rumor has become something of a running joke here. the moot despite people's exhaustion is quite festive. "all egyptians are smart. mubarak is egyptian. he's smart and he's very good at plotting," he points out. "we're playing a game now of biting the fingers. whof whomever is in the most pain is going to leave first. so we're staying here until his pain is unbearable. the ...
Long to understand that what's happening in egypt isn't just putting or serving notice to dictatorship that your time is over. it's also serving a very strong notice to u.s. administrations and allies generally around the world that this hypocritical foreign policy that sacrificed osh freedom for a good ally in mubarak is over. i think the entire world has to sit back and reckon with that. >> mr. dershowitz, obviously you have one of israel's greatest arab ally egypt headless. is israel now in trouble? >> well, israel certainly is concerned about this and the united states has to make sure it ...