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Dr. Ashraf Ezzat Reporting from Egypt: The Uprising, the Treason and Israel
The dictator- people relationship is primarily of fear and submission. You take that fear and submission out of the equation and the relation is redefined again and so disturbed to the verge of uprising
By Dr. Ashraf Ezzat / from Alexandria, Egypt for Veterans Today
Dr. Ashraf Ezzat at the Egyptian one million man march on Tuesday, February1st.
History has always been one of my passions. Every passing moment has in a way contributed to our history on earth but only some of those moments made a change of history.
From the monotheism of Akhenaten in ancient Egypt to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, from the medieval crusades to the war in Iraq and from the French revolution to the fall of Berlin wall, those are some of the crucial moments that made a change of history and shaped our life.
Of all the uprisings and revolutions I’ve read about in history books, I never thought I’d be experiencing one in my life time. What is taking place right now in Egypt is undoubtedly a popular revolution against dictatorship that has been stifling the Egyptians for decades now. I myself have been a living witness to many years of corruption by that dictatorship but what Egyptians have actually lived and endured during the last days in Egypt was beyond anybody’s imagination. What the whole world is witnessing now in Egypt is not only a regime crumbling down but a whole age of authoritarianism in the Arab world fading away.
What the ordinary Egyptians have done on Tuesday 25th January is by no means unprecedented, they managed to not only defy the oppression and arrogance of a self serving political regime but they also proved the expectation that never saw them capable of challenging and revolting against dictatorship wrong.
Likewise, the reaction of Mubarak and his thugs of the ruling party-NDP- to this patriotic uprising has also been unprecedented. No one with the least level of conscience and human integrity could have planned and actually carried out such a dirty and shameful scheme.
The uprising started on Tuesday with beautiful and magical scenes of thousands of Egyptians of all walks of life- men and women, old and young and Muslim and Christian- taking to the streets of Cairo and all major cities of Egypt nonviolently chanting out their frustrations and aspirations. On the spot, demonstrators were intercepted and dealt with by what seemed to all viewers around the world as an organized and ruthless army of security forces.
Water cannons, rubber bullets and tear gas canisters were being shot at protestors at will and as soon as they were forced into side streets they were subjected to physical violence and intimidation.
The brutality of the Egyptian regime in the way it was trying to abort this nonviolent uprising and which was transmitted live by international news channels might have come as a shock to a lot of viewers around the world but for Egyptians it seemed rather expected and typical of a regime that turned their life into a dark tunnel of fear and degradation throughout the years.
The police conspiracy and the fall of the president
Egyptian police forces trying to crush the protesters.
The police department in any free society is supposed to serve and protect the people and not the other way round. But in dictatorships its role is primarily to look after the dictator in return for privileges and authorities offered to them by the regime.
And as the dictator gets more deluded and paranoid over the years so does his security apparatus of officers and detectives. The dictator- people relationship is primarily of fear and submission. You take that fear and submission out of the equation and the relation is redefined again and so disturbed to the verge of uprising.
For ordinary Egyptians the ballot posts and the police stations used to be the most unlikely places they wanted to go to for both were directly connected to the deception and might of the regime. The parliamentary and presidential rigged elections never did anything except securing another term of autocratic power to Mubarak and his chosen ring of corrupt politicians. And likewise, police stations only meant one thing to any average Egyptian and that is humiliation and intimidation by the police thugs of officers and small detectives.
You don’t get to call or address any police officer in Egypt by his job title, no, that’s a taboo, you can only address or refer to him as Pasha – a title equivalent to lord in England- which gave any police officer the satisfaction he needed to feel superior and authoritative. Ordinary people answered to the Egyptian police officer anytime – especially under the implementation of Mubarak’s emergency law- while he answered to no one.
Lately the security apparatus has started to use innovative ways of securing and fortifying the grip of the regime over the Egyptians. They started to use criminals, inmates and thugs to intimidate people away from demonstrations and from ballot posts. Whenever came a time for elections or probable rallies the police stations would release all the into-custody drug dealers and robbers under detention and let them infiltrate protestors in rallies or voters heading to ballots centers to scare them off and even try and physically harm them so that they would refrain from thinking of voting or demonstrating ever again.
This has noticeably been resorted to as a routine and guaranteed approach since 2005 by the Egyptian security high ranking officials and mastered by most of the on field police officers and detectives in the country.
The detectives in almost every police station in Egypt have been regularly taking bribes from outlaws especially drug dealers and robbers in return for police raids intelligence and facilitating their release from detention in case of arrest.
Criminals let loose by the police in Egypt
Criminals and detectives began to act in collaboration and as days went by it seemed that they both were pursuing the same goal of illegal self gain. Moreover people in Egypt began to find it hard to tell the detective from the outlaw except by the police ID card.
Given that, the police chiefs along with the Egyptian minister of interior, Habib Al Adli while working on standard plan (A) for confronting the protestors of January 25th did not forget to come up with a dirty plan (B)
Plan (A)
The regime knew very well that the thousands of Egyptian protestors wouldn’t have managed to contact each other, organize their movements and galvanize on the concept of uprising without using the internet and especially social media like facebook and twitter so the regime first blocked those social media but that was not enough so they shut down the internet and even the mobile phone text messaging… and as the so called anti-riot forces were desperately trying hard with their gas canisters and rubber bullets to crush the protesters and disperse them the orders for plan (B) were already underway.
Plan (B)
At the Friday sunset and as the protestors were keeping their ground and bracing for another round of courageous confrontations, the police forces -and all of a sudden -withdrew from the streets to be replaced by small and rather symbolic infantry units of the military.
The protestors cheered on watching the military units and people clustered around the armed vehicles and shook hands with the soldiers but little did they know what the regime had in store for them.
As night was falling over Cairo and major cities of Egypt the police conspiracy or rather the treason was already in play;
- All police stations around Egypt have become simultaneously deserted; all police officers were given an open home leave until further notice.
- The police stations were left with detectives and soldiers in charge without superior command and moreover with instructions to discreetly let the criminals loose.
- In few hours almost every police station in the country and every major city police headquarter had been looted and set on fire.
- A number of jail breaks began to occur the same night and the following day.
- Many incidents of looting and breaking entries began to be heard of around most cities of Egypt and reported by the state television.
- A nationwide panic and intimidation have begun to sweep across Egypt.
- With the absence of security forces the people began to form community watches to patrol the streets all night protecting properties and their loved one from possible attacks by the looters
- The overwhelming sense of insecurity has led a considerable fraction of the Egyptian people to look at the uprising from a pain-benefit perspective and be inclined to see an end to it one way or another and to even side with Mubarak who seemed to them as the only option to guarantee the security and stability they have sacrificed.
And this exactly what plan (B) has been all about, only people who fell for it never managed to figure out the conspiracy behind. The security vacuum that scared most Egyptians was nothing more than another dirty scheme by the Mubarak’s regime.
Theoretically speaking the security vacuum that follows any revolt never takes place except after the regime has completely fallen and which has not been the case in the Egyptian uprising. And since the Egyptian regime knew very well that the security vacuum is the thing Egyptians dread most and which could make them reconsider supporting the uprising, so the security high officials thought why not create this premature and fake vacuum just to terrorize the people into abandoning the uprising and to make them clear the streets and stick to their homes.
It seemed like ingenious plan but it was far from being perfect; a lot of the arrested looters proved to be carrying the police identity card and others were using the missing guns of the police stations in a clear indication to the conspiracy been carried out by the police, not to mention hundreds of escaped inmates whom were easily captured again but only after they have been filmed and put on farcical display on the state TV for the provocation of more fear and respect for the might of the regime
Fear is the name of the game in these days of unrest in Egypt during which the regime will do absolutely anything to cling to power including all sorts of deception of the masses. The police dirty conspiracy is far from over as we can watch now the armies of thugs and criminals being depolyed by the interior ministry high officials to start the violent confrontations with the peacefull protestors in a desperate attempt to abort the Lotus uprising in Egypt.
Israel watching the uprising in Egypt
Military vehicles on the Egyptian streets
The world interest in the crisis in Egypt has a lot of reasons. Egypt is undoubtedly a pivotal nation in the Arab world and the Middle East; it is the main American ally in the Arab world and the recipient of the second largest American military aid. But most importantly because it is the biggest Arab neighbor country to the state of Israel with which it signed a peace treaty in 1979 after a long history of animosity and military confrontations.
On Sunday night, 30th January and on one of the live news shows that was discussing the uprising in Egypt, Omar Afifi, a former Egyptian police captain told BBC Arabic TV that – according to his resources in Washington- there is a close cooperation now between Mubarak and Israel as to how to control and subdue this uprising. Even more, he said that a cargo of special automatic sniper rifles were being shipped from Israel to the Egyptian internal security forces to be used to take down the leaders of the protestors in case the demonstrations were growing in number and getting out of control.
Any way and despite the fact that the veracity of those statements remain hard to verify but it goes without saying that Israel is watching this dramatic scenario of a close ally to Israel going down with great concern.
Israel enjoys a 30 years old peace treaty with Egypt- Camp David accords- during which Mubarak has kept not only its terms carefully observed but he also kept quiet borders with Israel and in a great way has helped Israel to tighten its siege on Gaza.
America and Israel are now contemplating the post-Mubarak scenario with fears that the shift of Egypt toward democracy and free elections would bring Islamists to power.
After almost 30 years of supporting a dictatorship in Egypt they hate to see another Iran or Hamas on the western borders of the Zionist state of Israel.
But that is unlikely to happen, not for the sake of Israel, but because Egypt is a country rich not only in history and culture but in its people and educated elites who never showed any inclination to adopt extreme trends of thinking or behavior and that is one sure thing that history tells us.
For more articles by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat visit his website:http://ashraf62.wordpress.com/
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Very good to hear from you, my friend!!!
Thank you Mike,
Things are taking an ugly turn right now. The regime is desperate. Inciting violence might save the day for the regime, but it will prove hazardous to Egyptians.
I hope there is still time for a wise voice to address the angry crowds.
Dr, Ezzat, Thanks for the well informed update. The police disappearing was obviously an anarchy feint. They laid back, waiting for the public to grow tired, and for the right time to counter attack.
With Mubarack offering not to run, meaningless really with his regime left in place, that set the stage for a move today. I must say that the camel and horse cavalry charge was a surprise, as was the quick reaction to their being tackled. The leadership here displayed was amazing to watch. As soon as the crowd saw brave souls running to pull the riders down, others instantly realized that his had to be done as a group to be effective. They responded instantly. I am very proud of these folks. They deserve to be free of the scum.
I had not realized that all the police stations had been abandoned. The news did a very poor job covering that, as such a thing could only be coordinated from the top. And new command centers would have had be set up somewhere to to monitor, wait or the best time for a counterstrike, and coordinate the move.
American Intelligence will of course have grabbed all of this via communication intercepts. A leak on this would be most helpful…and show the American people that our Intel services are taking more seriously the oath to serve the people…when disinformation is the most commonly used weapon of choice…not reporting to the public what it needs to know is not going
to look good for them historically.
But the thinking has always been, once they leave gov service, they are no longer respponsible for what they did, or dit not do, like hiding from the public what was critical for them to know to be able to have any grass roots oversight on American government MidEast policy.
In this regard, we are all Egyptians, if we have the courage to be.
al hamdulillahi you are fine. good summary.
Israel is playing the algerian scenario, civil war, but egyptians are too mature to fall in this trap
The Leader of Islamic Revolution (1979), Imam Khomeini is quoted as saying that road to Jerusalem passes through Cairo, Baghadad and Riyadh. What he meant was that Muslims cannot recover their third most sacred city of Al-Quds without getting rid of the pro-USraeli regimes in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iraq, which are maintained there by the West as Israel’s ‘first line of defense’ against the Islamic forces. To the great fear of Israel and its puppet regimes in the West – Iraq, though, occupied to block that road to Jerusalem – has been reopened by the Nuri al-Maliki government in Baghdad. Egyptians protesters are currently removing the roadblocks too. If an anti-Israel regime get established in Cairo – similar anti-government mass protests will spread to Saudi Arabia and Syria. The governments in both Lebanon and Gaza Strip are already pro-Iranian……..
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/road-to-al-quds-passes-through-cairo-baghdad-and-riyadh/
Khomeini already went to hell. Hopefully, his gang will soon go to meet with him.
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This is the most amazing story. I was looking at photos of some of the jails and all the doors were opened. I thought “who the hell opened those door?” I knew all those people couldn’t have broken out. Then, when I heard about the rioting and robbery, it seemed out of character. For almost four days there hadn’t been anything like that. To hear they were released on purpose is very disturbing. Just to know someone would do that so they could stay in power. Here’s hoping the people of Egypt will take control of their country. It will give hope to so many people around the world.
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Dr. Ashraf Ezzat,
For someone so keen on history, I’m surprised you are uninformed about the Persian Civilization.
So, when comparing Iran with Egypt, you say:
“because Egypt is a country rich not only in history and culture but in its people and educated elites who never showed any inclination to adopt extreme trends of thinking or behavior and that is one sure thing that history tells us.”
Are you suggesting that Iran is not a country rich in history and culture, and that Iranians are not “educated elites” who could believe in modernity and separation of religion from state?
I should remind you that that Persian Civilization, at some point in history covered and ruled over the entire Northern Africa, including Egypt.
I dare you to compare the accomplishments of Iranians versus Egyptians in the West where both groups have lived in freedom and have had opportunities. Then we can talk about “educated elites.”
Finally, allow me to point out your naïveté, if I may, regarding the possible take over of a radical Islamic group subsequent to removal of Mubarak. The “intellectuals” and the “students” never dreamed that an Islamic Republic could take over. They were just as foolish to believe that they could work hand in hand with such radical group and “use” them to agitate the masses to bring their revolution to success.
You are in Cairo. I’m surprised you haven’t seen the people marching with photos of Hassan Nassrallah (Hazbollah’s leader and Iran’s proxy in Lebanon).
Indeed, things could go differently in Egypt. I do hope so for the sake of my Egyptian friends as well as the entire Middle East and the world. But if they do, it will not be because of the reasons you have stated in your article. Rather it will be because of lessons you might have learned from the situation in Iran for the past 32 years.
Thanks for the article Dr. Ezzat. The Egyptian people are demonstrating immense bravery and resilience/ Christoffer
Good to hear from you Christoffer and thank you for your phone call.
Take care.
By the way, Dr. Ezzat, do the Egyptian people have any leaders or technocrats they would like to install instead of Mubarak and his cronies or is it only El Baradei?
Dr. Ezzat, will America sit back and let Israeli aid to Mubarak’s thugs go uncontested? Of course they will!
It’s unfortunate to see people arguing on history, even if I know that most of us have a piece of the Truth. Instead of arguing to know which one of you is right or not,one of the things we should do is show our support in spirit and energies to these courageous peoples, (Tunisian,Egyptian, Jordanese, Lebanese,Palestinian el cetera) to stand up and Fight for their Freedom and the end of Dictatorship on EARTH.
I am PROUD to see peoples on this World and STAND UP and OUTCRY the INJUSTICE that have been perpetrated by ZIONISTS, DICTATORS and their STOOGES.
HERE IN NORTH AMERICA, CANADIAN AS WELL AMERICAN, ARE COMMATOSE and COWARDS, all of that for a question of SECURITY and FEAR.
Right now, arguing on HISTORY is FUTILE because it’s the PAST and we should concentrate on the NOW/PRESENT , what we ,as individual, should or could do to DETOUR their AGENDA and change the rest of the SCENARIO for the BENIFIT OF FREEDOM and LOVE, while it’s not to late.
We have Egyptian, Tunisian and Muslims in North America who are protesting and support their brothers and sisters overseas, why not join them next time, they need us.
One day, and very soon, we might need their support, because, we too, live in a POLICE STATE since we have this duo OBAMA/HARPER and their stooges, the pride of the ZIONIST’s DICTATORSHIP.
Thank you for your Article Dr. Azzat, shirin, reymat and all of you who comment and all the journalists and peoples who fight with courage for a better World .
Shalom,
JP
JPFreeWill,
If you don’t know history, you are doomed to repeat it. That not just a cliche. It’s as real as the air you breathe.
I assure you and Dr. Ezzat that, unfortunately, Moslem Brotherhood will ultimately control the Egyptian people’s destiny as the entire scenario has been written and being directed from Tehran. The cast are coming from Lebanon, Hamas, and Egypt. Mubarak will go. I really feel bad for Egyptians, who again are NOT Arabs, thinking they are picking themselves up from potholes but not realizing the wells down the road set up by Moslem Brotherhood into which they will be thrown.
Just think about it. If this uprising was by reasonable and rational people insisting on change, why wouldn’t they accept a transition to military rule for six months within which they can introduce their candidates for office, write a new constitution, form an ad hoc government and go from there?
It’s crystal clear that the driving force behind all the chaos can be traced all the way back to Tehran. Mubarak is a dictator but not an idiot to create more chaos which he cannot control. They did the same thing in Iran. The gang of mullah followers invaded a couple of prisons and let prisoners out. You think they didn’t have friends among the jailers?
Dr. Ezzat admits that this is the first “revolution” he has experienced in his lifetime. Well, it’s not my first. I have seen the exact, letter by letter, step by step, word by word, sign by sign, mode by mode “revolution” in Iran. At that time Khomeini in Iran promised to export their “Islamic Revolution” to the entire world.
Congratulations Egypt. If you are not careful, you are the second formal recipient of Khomeini’s gift, the first being Lebanon. It doesn’t matter that you are Sunnis and they are Shiites. They will have it out with you at the right time.
It’s ludicrous that they have you blame Israel or the U.S. for everything to distract you from what is truly happening. And, sadly, you are all falling for it.
We can only hope that soon we will see the fall of Israel and a return of the land to the Palestinians and the name “Israel” stricken from maps and memory. Upon the downfall of Israel, Americans will be able to dance in the streets as Israeli jews did on 9/11 when Americans were sacrificed on the altar of zionism.
May God damn the liars. It is the Devil that always turns things upside down.
They were the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank who danced on the streets on 9/11. After all, it is Islam that values death and martyrdom. The rest of the world values life.
When you say “return the land to the Palestinians”, you mean to the Ottoman Empire? Do you know what the hell you are talking about? I think not.
Dr Ezzat, Good to have you reporting from Alexandria, but take care put a cap, change your looks, wear a local dress, the snipers are real… and so are agents from foreign Intel Agencies…
In my opinion, Mubarak is finished as president of Egypt, but the regime’s “special relationship” with Israel-USA-GB-D still stands and the West wants it to continue that way post Mubarak.
The dealing and wheeling now is about gaining time and maneuvering to find a New Team without Mubarak that would open up for some plural political participation, but making sure that the “Muslim Brotherhood”, “Ghadan” and any tendency that will not play along the US-GB-IL-EU line, stay out…
Now, the main REAL players are the Top Brass of the Egyptian Armed Forces. What Israel wants through the US envoys-special emissaries to Mubarak is “helping him get out”, what Obama calls “an Orderly Transition”, making damn sure that whoever comes after Mubarak walks the same line and use the same script.
Mubarak still has many friends in the Egyptian Armed Forces. Many of them are now generals and colonels. They owe him their ranks, high standard of living and wealth…
The Egyptian civilians can’t change anything in Egypt as long as the Armed Forces do not join the PEOPLE and together impulse the democratization and modernization of the country .
Only a “Civico-Militar” union can bring about the substantial and needed socio-economical-political reforms, and I doubt that the Egyptian Military is ready for that.
In other words, the Egyptians will get a make believe-skin deep “democracy” and “a Change for no Change”: The US-IL-GB will never allow the Egyptians to decide for themselves, too much geopolitical interests involved, Egyptians seen as useful idiots to the Zion Talmudic Mafia Dons’ Global agenda, and bought very cheap: only $1,5 Bn a year to a population of 80 millions (that does not see the money…), while Israel gets $3 Bn a year for its only 6 million citizens, and all the Armament it wants on top of its Hijacking of America…
Informative interview with Ashraf. However, the quality for me was very intermittent.
The VT interviews are a most worthwhile exercise and may theu continue
Mubarak and Suleiman of Egypt and Abbas and Saayad of Palestine are traitors of the worst kind, they have sold their souls but worse than that, they have betrayed their people and their countries. They have been working in the interests of Zionism. They are part of The New World Order and, like Blair, have been lining their own pockets with Zionist shekels, makes a sick sort of sense..
Ingrid, permit me a precision: It is not Zionist Shekels, it’s the US taxpayers U$D or Green-notes, freely printed by the Jewish Federal Reserve.
The bribing does not cost the Zion Talmudic Mafia Dons a penny, the status quo and submission of the American People and EU-Arab-African-Asian People to the FMI-WB gives the Zion Wealth-Power-Political Influence everywhere (world encompassing monetary-financial policy-manipulation of the markets-stocks and derivatives-insurance. The real problem for us the Goyim (and in this case Egypt-Tunisia-Algeria, etc.) is that we don’t control the MONEY…
Mubarak-Suleiman-Sarkozy-Blair-Obama-Cameron are all BOUGHT cattle.
As some commentators on Egyptians uprising have observed the absence of condemnation of the role US imperialist have been playing in Egypt since demise of Nasser,it is shocking and suggests that revolution is not heading in the right direction and in all likely hood would fail to meet the aspirations of Egyptian people,a new Mubarak may replace the Hosni one.Condemning a puppet is not enough,cut the hands which pull the strings.
You know, you people have some audacity. First off, the U.S. was absolutely silent a couple of years ago when Ahmadinejad of Iran defrauded the people of Iran in the elections and stole the office of Presidency for himself again.
Day after day people were shot, rounded up and taken to prisons where they were tortured, raped, sodomized, and either executed or murdered under torture and their bodies were never found.
The U.S. was silent. The people of Iran, inside Iran and those living abroad, tried very hard to publicize the atrocities of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Only Fox News had a little more coverage. Toward the end, when people were exhausted fighting their savage Islamic government and were gradually retreating, we heard a few words from the President.
They Egyptians are getting a lot of support from the U.S. If another dictator will replace Mubarak, be it a secular, military, or Islamic despot, it will be the fault of the Egyptian people. So, wake up people. Stop blaming U.S., Israel, and any other group, and defend your country.
I hope our leaders are not even considering to resume dealing with Mubarak’s new or old government if he succeed in controlling the uprising. Then is would be our time to march on Washington.
How sad, we danced around the issue not to upset a “loyal friend” but mostly for fear Islams might take over. Today for the first time I heard the words Jihad and it came from Mubarak’s supporters…..
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There is a deafening silence from Western Media regarding Egypt. This is because jews have not written and distributed the talking points and scripts to their loyalist stooges. As soon as they do America will be called upon to sacrifice her sons so that six million jews don’t perish in a holohoax.
That’s funny. Everything we see on the news is about Egypt.
But, then, who cares what you think. You appear to have hallucinations about “holohoax”.
I was watching a different TV? You say there was no violence until the Mubarak supporters came to the party? And of course there are no extremist Muslims involved, and it is all Israel and America’s fault.
The opponents didn’t try to motivate their supporters to the protest, Only Mubarak supporters did.
Received yesterday from Dr. Iman Bibars, ASHOKA Middle East North Africa on the ground in Cairo
—–Original Message—–
From: Tom Boone
Sent: Wed, Feb 2, 2011 11:06 am
Subject: WORD FROM INSIDE EGYPT : Please share
Dear Friends and colleagues
This is a letter to all of my friends and colleagues who sent warm and kind words of encouragement to me , my family and all of the Egyptians at these very tough times.
What has happened in Egypt the last week or more is unprecedented and is a wonderful and revitalizing experience for all Egyptians who love this country? This is our first real people revolution and it is fueled by wonderful and great young men and women from all walks of Egypt. The liberation square has become a symbol for all our sufferings and also our victories. I cannot claim that I have suffered as many Egyptians did and many of the young revolutionaries asked me why am I supporting them although I have been benefiting (their words) or have not been harmed by the old regime. My only answer was that I loved Egypt and that to be loyal and patriotic to this country means that you want the best for her and you want her to be free and her people to be liberated and treated as humans. For me Egypt is a she, a her and the mother of all Egyptians and the matriarch that has kept us all in her bosom and nurtured us whether we were grateful or not. And what the regime of husni Mubarak and the security apparatus headed by the war criminal habib al adly have done to us and to the people of Egypt for 30 years is unparalleled in any other country. The humiliation and destruction of the Egyptian character and the spirit of the people in a calculated and organized way took place for 30 years in a relentless and very evil way. Egyptians stopped laughing or smiling from their hearts, you could see and touch helplessness and hopelessness among the old and the young. Phenomena such as sexual harassment, looting and predominance of thugs spread because they were encouraged by the security that wanted to break the pride and self-respect of all Egyptians. The murdering and killing was not only of people’s bodies and lives but of their souls and spirits. Corruption and lack of ethical fiber and self-respect became the norm, became the traits most respected.
I am as you all know quite mature (i.e. old) and have been here since the 60s and I have worked with the people and in the streets and was naïve enough to try to enter politics believing that this country needed those who loved her and who would give more than they would take. I was burnt and burnt hard and not only from the government but from the pretenders or those who played the roles of defenders of human rights or of the people but who in many cases found it lucrative to play that role. My mistake was that I always followed my conscience and what I thought was right and was neither extreme left nor extreme right. What happened in Egypt during the last 5 years at least what I found out broke my heart and I started thinking and acting seriously to leave the country to go and live somewhere else. I did not feel there was any hope left.
But then on the 25th and when I was home and discovering the internet world , face book and you tube for the first time in my life, I also rediscovered Egypt, the Egypt I have read about and dreamed about. The brave and noble youth of Egypt have resurrected our pride and soul. They have revived the real spirit and soul of Egypt. They have taken away our shame of being so spineless and useless for decades. They have and for the first time in our history carried a real people’s revolution at least during my life time.
They managed to reveal the true face of our security and police forces, those traitors who abandoned their posts and allowed our children and families to die, be attacked and vandalized. Many of the looters and thugs were reported were associated one way or the other with the police. They did not mind that mothers, elders and children be terrorized in an effort to abort the revolution and scare all of the liberation square heroes away from their main battle. They did not care and frankly this is what the last regime had shown over and over again, that they do not care for us, for the Egyptians or for Egypt. That is why they should not stay, they should go, they should not be allowed to rule or govern as they are in reality traitors who hate us. No one who loves his country and its people would have allowed the scandal and shameful behavior of the security forces not only in murdering and torturing the protesters but more so in terrorizing the kind people of Egypt by opening the prisons, and sending their own thugs to steal, loot and vandalize shops, homes and the nice and simple Egyptian families.
Now at this moment and after the maneuvers of the state , a peaceful transition of power is becoming less of a reality and clashes between the youth of Egypt, the real revolutionaries and those pushed and prompted by the state and the NDP is going on now. I just learned that the liberation square is completely blocked and the army tanks are around it and also blocking any means to go in or out.
The state TV is sending wrong images and stories and lying to the people of Egypt, the regime and its NDP are sending thugs and some paid youth to start fights with the heroes of the liberation square and our youth are in deep danger. They are being under siege now and are being attacked by disguised thugs and security forces, the army has blocked all inroads to the liberation square and the mercenaries of the regime are beating and attacking women, girls and young men whose only demand was freedom and liberty.
If we can reach all Egyptians everywhere and tell them that the revolution is not and will not be over, I met several young people and they said that they are willing to die for Egypt in the liberation square but we do not want to sacrifice those clean souls. Please let’s all see a way to save them and tell all of Egypt that the mercenaries of the regime are the ones taking to the street now and that no one should give up the demands for a better and more liberated and free Egypt. Please do not believe the state TV for there are no outside forces or traitors among the revolutionaries who wanted our pride and self-worth and respect to return to us.
Iman Bibars, PhD
Leadership Team Member
Vice President, Ashoka
Regional Director, Ashoka Arab World
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Dr. Ezzat – I want you to know that I am a White Nationalist. I, and my family and friends, are praying for the people of Egypt. We fervently pray, with all our hearts, that the good citizens of Egypt can hold fast, and hold out. The citzenry are amazingly brave. We admire them, and pray that Egypt will prevail over this grotesque tyranny.
Thank you Denise
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