He resigned from power on February 11, 2011 after an 18-day popular revolt.
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Though initially hailed as a popular revolt, the Nasserite coup turned out to be little more than a military power grab.
In Syria, dictator Bashar Assad's violent repression of the popular revolt against his tyrannical, minority regime has exposed the Syrian leader as a vicious murderer.
The USA was founded through a popular revolt against foreign rule.
Memories are still alive of the popular revolt that overthrew Marcos, and of several unsuccessful attempts by parts of the armed forces to depose Mrs Aquino.
It is the likelihood that the Muslim Brotherhood will rise to power, not an aversion to Arab democracy, that has caused Israel to fear the popular revolt against Mubarak's regime.
After stealing the presidential elections last June 12, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his boss Ali Khamenei required the assistance of all their regime goons to put down the popular revolt against them.
But this is the same electorate that, barely eight months ago, toppled a government by popular revolt and elected a new coalition, headed by the gutsy Johanna Sigurdardottir, who was charged with clearing up the mess.
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Kyrgyzstan was once seen as the most stable and liberal of the ex-Soviet Central Asian republics but it descended into turmoil in 2005 when a popular revolt ejected President Askar Akayev and brought Kurmanbek Bakiyev to power.
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Last week, the people of Serbia offered an inspiring reminder of how fragile even the most seemingly entrenched of dictatorships actually are when faced with a popular revolt backed by international efforts to deny the regime legitimacy.
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If the Muslim Brotherhood were not a factor in Egypt, then Israel would probably have simply been indifferent to events there, as it has been to the development of democracy in Iraq and to the popular revolt in Tunisia.
It's the latest in the seesaw struggle between Egypt's first democratically elected president and dissidents who say his tenure is a throwback to past dictatorships, particularly the reign of President Hosni Mubarak, who was toppled in a popular revolt two years ago.
It is not the first time that a major Western democracy has backed a dictator in the Muslim world and found their support meaningless in the face of popular revolt: the U.S. experience with the Shah in Iran and Musharraf in Pakistan are two important precedents.
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So, despite a swirl of accusations since the killing on February 14th of Lebanon's former long-serving prime minister, Rafik Hariri, an event that sparked popular revolt against decades of domination by Syria, this week's arrest of four top Lebanese security officers (and some lesser fry) was a pleasant surprise.
My guess, however, is that, as the implications of President Obama's Mideast policies - for the United States as well as Israel - become clearer, he is going to find himself facing the sort of popular and congressional revolt that has confronted him in recent weeks on Guantanamo Bay.
With the exception of Jack Cade's rising in 1450 and the Peasants' Revolt 70 years earlier (a large-scale popular uprising with genuinely revolutionary social and economic aims), medieval rebellions were often more about preserving the status quo rather than challenging it.
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