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What is wrong with Egypt?
Comment by Khalid Amayreh in Jerusalem
Not since the downfall of the British puppet King Faruq in
1952 has the Egyptian national will been so shamefully sub-
servient to a foreign power, namely the United States,
whose politics and policies are tightly controlled by
Zionist Jews.
Today, Egypt, which could have become an African or Middle
Eastern economic tiger is facing a hard time feeding its
nearly 80 million citizens. Last month, several people
were killed while standing in long queues waiting their
turn to buy bread, the main staple for most Egyptians.
Economically, inflation has reached an all time high, with
Egyptian civil servants barely able to make ends meet.
Some, probably many, Egyptians are forced to "eke out" some
extra pounds to remain afloat, mainly through bribery and
other forms of corruption.
This bleak reality has forced thousands of skilled and
highly-educated Egyptians to leave the country in order
to seek a dignified life abroad, mainly in oil-rich Arab
countries or in the West.
Fifty years ago, Egypt and South Korea were more or less
at the same socio-economic level. However, while the latter
succeeded in becoming an industrial and economic giant,
the former is still languishing in poverty, perennially
awaiting grain shipments from abroad, especially from the
US.
One doesn't have to be a great authority in economics to
understand the reasons for Egypt's failure and enduring
backwardness.
Egypt, since the Camp David Accords in the late 1970s,
effectively lost its free will to the United States and
therefore to Israel. Indeed, instead of aspiring to make
Egypt the "China" or "India" or even "Malaysia" of the
Arab world, the Egyptian regime opted to surrender Egypt's
national will to the US, all in order to maintain its own
power!
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Egypt is not a country without resources, or indeed, with-
out brains. However, for brains to function properly, they
need a fee environment. Brains simply can't function in
an environment dominated by despotism, tyranny and
authoritarianism. Dictatorship can only produce human
robots that obey orders, but don't think.
Unfortunately, Egypt is still among the most authoritarian
states in the contemporary world. People are arrested and
tortured for their conscience and thought. Political
opponents spend more time in the regime's dungeons than
they do with their families, and voters deemed "non-
conformists" are beaten savagely for daring to exercise
their democratic rights.
Unfortunately, this is done while America, which doesn't
stop boasting about their own First Amendment and civil
liberties, keeps babbling about "making progress" toward
democracy in the Arab world.
Militarily, Egypt's will to create a deterrent force in
the face of Israel's huge nuclear arsenal has long been
strangled by brazen American intervention.
This is really scandalous especially given the unending
statements from Israeli leaders that Egypt, not Iran, is
Israel's strategic enemy.
How many times have Israeli cabinet ministers threatened
to bomb the Aswan High Dam? How many times have Israeli
leaders threatened to destroy the Pyramids? How many times
has Israel, implicitly or explicitly, threatened to create
trouble for Egypt by conspiring with Ethiopia to divert
the waters of the Nile or limit the amount of water
destined to Egypt and Sudan?
I really don't understand the mindsets of Egyptian
strategists who spend their time devising plots against
opposition parties, such as the Ikhwan and Kifaya, while
ignoring the real and haunting threat coming from Israel,
a state which will soon be under the control of the
genocidal fundamentalist millenarian Zionists who believe
that dropping nuclear bombs on major Arab towns such
Cairo, Damascus and even Mecca would expedite the
appearance of the Mashiah, or Redeemer.
So, what have the people, who are entrusted with the
paramount task of protecting Egypt and its 80 million
inhabitants from external threats, done to forestall
such scenarios? The answer is nothing, absolutely
nothing, apart from trusting the US to restrain Israel.
To compensate its multi-faceted impotence and incompetence,
the Egyptian regime is now trying to display its potency
by helping Israel perfect and maximize its Nazi-like
blockade of Gaza.
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A few months ago, the Foreign minister of Egypt, threatened
to break the bones of Gazans who dared cross the borders
into Egypt.
And then the Egyptian authorities adopted a number of
manifestly hostile measures against Gazans, like keeping
them stranded for weeks and months in sub-human conditions
on the Egyptian side of the border.
Egypt has also sided with the American-backed Palestinian
Authority in Ramallah in refusing to reopen the Rafah
border crossing, the Gaza Strip's only remaining conduit
to the outside world, unless Israel is allowed to have
the final say as to who will and won't be allowed to
pass through!! Isn't that more shameful than shame itself?
Yes, Egypt has every right to protect its security against
terrorists and saboteurs. And the Palestinian people are
the last people on earth who would want to see Egypt's
vital security interests undermined.
And there may well be a few rogue elements who have sold
their souls to the devil by joining some international
terrorist groups. But fighting these criminals should
never be done by conspiring with Israel to starve Gazans
by turning Gaza into an updated version of the Warsaw
Ghetto, which Egypt is now doing.
Israel is murdering innocent Gazans on a daily basis.
Last week, the Israeli army, knowingly and deliberately,
murdered several Palestinian children and minors, to be
added to the thousands of other Palestinians murdered
mercilessly by the army of a state that commits genocide
in the name of Jewish supremacy just as the Wehrmacht
did the same thing in the name of Aryan supremacy.
Unfortunately, instead of stepping in to help and comfort
the starved and tormented Palestinians, the Egyptian
government is doing quite the opposite by hermitically
shutting off the borders with Gaza, all in order to
obtain a certificate of good conduct from Tel Aviv and
Washington.
It is with a heavy heart that I am writing these sad words
because I have always loved and continue to love Egypt, a
country that deserves a better fate and a different destiny.
But God doesn't change the lot of a people, unless they
themselves have the will to change their conditions.
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