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Demonstrations against the war in gaza are continuing at dozens of universities across the united states, with arrests taking place on multiple campuses. I spoke to robert cohen, a professor of Social Studies and history at New York University who has studied Student Activism about how these protests compare to others in us history. The protests, initially, going on now were much more moderate in their tactics, whether its 1960. Actually, the greatest upsurges in active American History occurred in may 1970 after nixon authorised the invasion of cambodia. He had promised to end the war, and he...

In this mess and we'll have to see where it goes, but it definitely is grim. >> we saw this telegraphed as a strategy by president mubarak, when he spoke last night, not tonight, but 24 hours ago, he was describing protest scenes as if they were violent, full of arsonists and looters. reporters at the time reporting on those real protests on the ground were instead describing a carnival-like atmosphere, people joyous, jubilant, women and children out among the protesters but sure enough at daybreak as mubarak made those statement, things became violent, attributed to largely pro-mubarak forces...

Where it was going to turn out like tiananmen or turn out like prague. i think it will be violent, messy, and i think a lot of hopeful people will be victims in this mess and we'll have to see where it goes, but it definitely is grim. >> we saw this telegraphed as a strategy by president mubarak, when he spoke last night, not tonight, but 24 hours ago, he was describing protest scenes as if they were violent, full of arsonists and looters. reporters at the time reporting on those real protests on the ground were instead describing a carnival-like atmosphere, people joyous, jubilant, women and ...

Egypt. it seems clear it will not work this time. egyptian president hosni mubarak spoke calling the protesters loote looters, arsonists. he was railing against the angry mobs who are the protest tors against him. all the press reports coming from press were describing protest scenes as jubilant, joyful, a carnival-like atmosphere. were they describing reality? no, they weren't. he was saying his strategy, what he was about to do and what was about to happen. we were able to report last night, here it comes. we were already getting reports at that point that president mubarak's people would be...

Be victims in this mess and we'll have to see where it goes. it definitely is grim. >> we saw this telegraphed as a strategy by president mubarak. when he spoke last night, not tonight but 24 hours ago. he was describing protest scenes as if they were violent, full of arsonists and looters. reporters at the time reporting on those real protests reporting from the ground written stead describing a carnival like at moss feempl people were jubilant. but then at daybreak when mubarak maude those statements, thing became violent. largely attributed to pro mubarak starting fights and then become sce...