The ‘New Egypt’ in its ninth year

If we consider 6 June 1967 as a crushing military defeat for Egypt and the Arab nations as a whole, in which we lost land, honour and dignity, then 30 June 2013 was the greatest and gravest defeat in all senses. This defeat led to our loss of land, homeland, identity, national unity, Egypt’s standing and the democratic transition. In this defeat, we lost hope of becoming a powerful nation, joining the civilised nations and restoring the glory of our ancestors.

On that fateful day, the forces of evil from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (the allies of Zionists in the region) conspired against the Egyptian people and they thwarted the first democratic experiment in the country in its infancy. They ended the dream of the Egyptians and turned it into a frightening nightmare out of their fear that their people may be influenced and the winds of change would blow in their direction toppling their weak thrones.

Sisi Era – Cartoon [Carlos Latuff/MiddleEastMonitor]

The Zionist leaders, like the Arab Zionist rulers, did not like the Egyptian revolution. They want the Zionist entity to remain ‘the only democracy’ in the region, they are also afraid of the awakening of the Arab peoples who may revolt against their rulers, the agents and guards of the Zionist entity.

Several Zionist officials, the most prominent of which is former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, have stated that Israel would never allow the establishment of an Islamic rule in neighbouring Egypt. Barak played a major role in promoting the coup in the West, while his predecessor Benjamin Netanyahu pressured Congress to support the events on the ground.

Nonetheless, we cannot excuse the elites, especially those who participated in the January 25 Revolution and were among its icons. We cannot excuse their conspiracy against the revolution when they put their hands in the hands of the enemies of the revolution just because their political opponent assumed power. They turned against the democracy they were paying lip service to.

This vile elite, having lost their hope of assuming any position of responsibility in the system they supported, started screaming against this fascist regime. However, it continued to refuse to admit its fault and still wants to exclude Islamists from the political arena.

Now, during the ninth anniversary of the Egyptian counter-revolution, there are no real forces on the ground facing this tyrannical rule. This is due to the absence of free people, as tens of thousands are languishing in prisons. National forces are now fragmented.

People have returned to living in fear, a mode they shed after the January Revolution, but which has returned with greater brutality, repression and torture under the fascist coup regime. The regime exploited this fear by lifting subsidies and increasing prices while it is assured that there will be no real reaction on the ground and that anger will remain subdued as people will not dare to revolt.

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However, when the people become restless due to their heavy burden and are no longer able to endure more, they will revolt against their executioners. This is what history has taught us.

Those who headed to the squares nine years ago are now the most affected by the military coup and the most dissatisfied with it. Now, they are mourning and grieving their living conditions and the suffering they are enduring, as they have not experienced the luxurious life promised to them. The coup regime has left the poor to become poorer, and the middle class, which is the mainstay of all human societies, almost completely disappeared after it merged with the poor.

This is the new Egypt that the general promised when he said: “Tomorrow you will see Egypt, it will be as big as the world, not just the mother of the world.”

The coup supports the wealth class, which plunders the country’s wealth and harnesses the rest of society to serve it, like a system of masters and slaves!

This is the status of Egypt, nine years after the coup and no one knows what the coming days will bring.

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