After over 11 days of popular protests by an outstandingly united front amongst the Egyptian people and a climate of intensifying violence and insecurity, a recent article on Al-Jazeera news channel discusses the reasons for which the UN has yet to get involved in any meaningful way in the situation in Egypt, not even by expressing its support for the struggle of the Egyptian people against an abusive regime that has systematically violated human rights and international law (see also video of Al-Jazeera news report). In order to understand the position of international law on this matter, we should recall…