Correcting The Path
"This action shows the state of anger and frustration the young Egyptian revolutionaries feel against Israel, especially after the recent Israeli attacks on the Egyptian borders that led to the killing of Egyptian soldiers." Egyptian political analyst Nabil Abdel FattahWhat better way to demonstrate the nature of the Arab Spring as a national and regional movement than to observe Egyptians still protesting, still moving to occupy Tahrir Square, still announcing their dissatisfaction with the military regime that took ultimate (temporary we're still informed) power after the ouster of former President Hosni Mubarak, than to embark on a "Correcting the Path" process.
Mr. Mubarak is on trial, accused of killing hundreds of protesters in the early days of the Egyptian uprising. So far, police testifying for the prosecution have stated he had urged restraint. He has been reviled by the Egyptian public for maintaining a peace treaty - even at the cool degree that it enjoyed - with Israel. Turning Egypt away from irredentism, an initiative undertaken by his predecessor, another former Egyptian general, Anwar Sadat.
The public, it appears, would far prefer to engage in yet another fruitless war with "the enemy". They may yet have that opportunity. For the Islamist forces that were responsible for assassinating former President Sadat and whom President Mubarak kept a tight lid on for as long as he could, now appear poised, not only in Egypt, but in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East, to gain control.
The Muslim Brotherhood and other Salafist groups will have their say and their day. Sheik Qaradawi, intellectual and spiritual head of the Muslim Brotherhood, citing initiatives on action, mentions rallying Christians against Israel. Of course Egyptian Coptic Christians themselves have suffered greatly under Islamism, and will continue to do so. But Egyptians know of a certainty that Israel represents the enemy.
Egyptians also know that the attackers of 9/11 were most definitely not Muslims, and none were Egyptian. Because neither Egyptians nor Muslims resort to that kind of viciously destructive atrocity against civilians. Only Jews and infidels are capable of that kind of psychopathic destruction. Witness the killing of five Egyptian security guards (when Israel was defending itself from a Sinai Islamist attack).
So there was much satisfaction when demonstrators used hammers and metal rods to destroy a wall built by Egyptian authorities in front of the Israeli Embassy, as Egyptian police stood aside and hundreds of demonstrators cheered. Just as they cheered when a demonstrator scaled the embassy a month earlier and tore down the Israeli flag.
Egyptians have identified the enemy and it is not quite what the watching world assumed; lack of justice and appeals for democracy in a freer society, more economically stable and civil.
Labels: Conflict, Egypt, Islamism, Israel
posted by Pieface @ Saturday, September 10, 2011
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