With the changes afoot in US and Israeli administrations—along with increasingly vocal, powerful and interconnected resistance groups, domestically and across the border in Gaza—it seems the aging Mubarak regime is getting nervous and finds little option to maintain its grip on power but to resort to a strategy of tension. 
Huku kukiwa na matarajio ya mabadiliko katika serikali za Marekani na Israeli – pamoja na makundi ya upinzani yenye sauti na yaliyo mitandao ya ndani na ile inayovuka mipaka na kuingia Gaza – inaonekana kuwa utawala unaozeeka wa Mubarak unaanza kuingiwa na kihoro na kujikuta una machaguo machache ya kuendeleza mshiko wake madarakani isipokuwa kwa kutumia mikakati ya kuongeza hali ya vuguvugu.