By TOVAH LAZAROFF AND REBECCA ANN STOIL

"We are currently in a very difficult international situation," Netanyahu tells Likud members in response to settler complaints...and the American veto in the Security Council was only achieved with great effort. We could ignore everything and say 'no problem,' but as a prime minister who is responsible for this country I have general responsibility."

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For anyone who spent time in Tahrir Square these last three weeks, one thing was very obvious: Israel was not part of this story at all. This was about Egypt and about the longing of Egyptians for the most basic human rights, which were described to me by opposition Egyptian newspaper editor Ibrahim Essa as "freedom, dignity and justice.'' It doesn't get any more primal than that.