Two events led Al-Usboa, Al-Arabi and Watani to comment on the issue of democracy and the American intervention in the domestic affairs of Egypt. These events are the decision of the US Senate to allocate $2 million, cut from the American aid to Egypt, to Saad Eddin Ibrahim and his Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development Studies and the Speech the American President George Bush gave on November 7 before the National Council for Developing Democracy on the occasion of the passage of 20 years on the establishment of the National Fund for Democracy