EU foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels Monday to discuss the uprisings across North Africa and the Gulf and are expected to focus on Egypt and on Libya where there have been days of protests against President Muammar Gadhafi's 40-year rule.

Yet the road to liberalization of the Egyptian spirit, and its markets, lies in harms way because of genuine fear amongst states in the region and the democratic states: the possibility that Egypt will become an Islamic Republic as it happened in Iran, merely 3 decades ago, still burns in the Western democracies flesh.

Appearing on Libyan state television, Seif al-Islam Gaddafi says his father is in the country and has support of army.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked the United States for vetoing a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israel on settlements.

World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder expressed deep appreciation to the United States for voting down a UN Security Council resolution ''which would have unilaterally condemned Israel and termed its settlements east of the 1967 ‘Green Line’ as illegal.''

The United States vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have condemned Israeli settlements as illegal.

Third Yemeni protester killed, as demonstrators set fire to municipal buildings; Bahraini mourners slam country's ruling monarchy during funeral of those killed in security forces attack.

Lebanese President Michel Sleiman says another Israeli-imposed war on his country would not be ''a walk in the park'' as the army and Hezbollah resistance movement are fully prepared.

-European Union Foreign Ministers are to meet on Sunday in Brussels ahead of their regular meeting on Monday to discuss the situation in Egypt following the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and developments in several other Arab countries in the region.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told American Jewish leaders -- and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah -- that Israel is strong and can defend itself.