[Marxism] What is Wrong With Egypt?

[Dbachmozart@xxxxxxx]

_http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En_ (http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En)  
 
Not since the downfall of the British puppet King  Faruq in 1952 has the 
Egyptian national will been so shamefully subservient 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 âeke outâ 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 doesnât have to be a great authority in economics  to understand the 
reasons for Egyptâs 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 âChinaâ or   âIndiaâ or even âMalaysiaâ 
of the 
Arab world, the Egyptian regime opted to  surrender Egyptâs national will to 
the 
US, all in order to maintain its own  power! 
Egypt is not a country without resources, or indeed,  without brains. 
However, for brains to function properly, they need a fee  environment. Brains 
simply 
canât function in an environment dominated by  despotism, tyranny and 
authoritarianism. Dictatorship can only produce human  robots that obey orders, 
but 
donât 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  regimeâs dungeons than 
they 
do with their families, and voters deemed   ânon-conformistsâ are beaten 
savagely for daring to exercise their democratic  rights. 
Unfortunately, this is done while America, which  doesnât stop boasting about 
their own First Amendment and civil liberties, keeps  babbling about  âmaking 
progressâ toward democracy in the Arab world. 
Militarily, Egyptâs will to create a deterrent force  in the face of Israelâ
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 Israelâs  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 donât 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. 
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 Stripâs 
only 
remaining conduit to the outside world, unless  Israel is allowed to have the 
final say as to who will and wonât be allowed to  pass through!! Isnât 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 Egyptâs 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 doesnât change the lot of a people, unless  they themselves have the 
will to change their  conditions.





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