Obama and Clinton Tactics for Egypt
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Alexandria Ramleh Beach Panorama (Nicopolis, AD 30)
Rafik Baladi, July 15, 2012: Secretary
of State Hilary Clinton visited Egypt, yesterday, on July 14, 2010, allegedly
because she cared about the move towards democratic transition that, somehow,
claimed that all Egyptian parliamentary and presidential polls favoured the
Muslim Brotherhood and other extreme Muslim players (such as the Salafists).
She met the new “…democratically elected Egyptian President, Mohamed Morsi” for
serious talks “… in favour of Egypt”. She was received with open arms by many
advocates of the new party and was resisted by some rotten tomatoes, potatoes
and a few shoes in Alexandria by demonstrators that condemned both the newly declared
romantic business friendship between USA and the allegedly “…democratically
elected new party and parliament”. These demonstrators, also, condemned the actions and threats of this
party (and its advocates) that was repeatedly reported to have assaulted hundreds of Egyptians in Tahrir Square in Cairo including the Christians of the Alexandria 2010 church massacre,those of the Egyptians of the Cairo Maspero massacre and elsewhere in Egypt, let alone (the democratically elected
party's) threats to demolish cultural heritage sites (amongst others and resorting to violence (slaughter), in the event it did not win power.
And this is the question! Today, Sunday,
July 15, 2012, I was watching CNN News-Hour around 6.15PM Eastern meantime; and I saw an
interesting exchange of ideas between the CNN news anchor (a smiling lady with
a blue necklace, whose name I don't not know and am not interested to know... Possibly, Erin Burnett) and
the reporter (probably in Egypt) and her name is Elise Labott (I hope I am
spelling her name right; although I don’t care). Both ladies mentioned
statements like “… lack of respect to the Senator; the Egyptians don’t
understand that this visit was meant to enforce the new allegedly democratic transition,
amongst others”. And I did not care for their incomprehensive analysis because
it was narrow and failed to mention that the horror of the Alexandria’s
demonstrations was not because it lacked respect or because of incompetence.
It was far more than that! I
found it condescending, judgemental and non-factual. Here are the reasons. The
majority if not 80% of Egyptians are haunted by the memories of USA involvement
with Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq and how Mujahedeen, once helped by America, turned against America and the West. They (the Egyptians) are grieving the Alexandria church bombing
of December 2010 and the threats by the new party, allegedly “…democratically
elected” [politically imposed] with no public retribution by the Secretary of State and the President of USA, President Obama, to the suffering of both the vast Muslim Egyptian
liberals (around thirty million) and the hurting Egyptian Christians, (Another
twenty-five million according to the Egyptian Papal figures) and a further six and
a half million Christians who fled their homeland to the west. To top it, more than half of the remaining twenty-eight million in favor of the [imposed] new ruling party is either misled and illiterate or an unrepresentative cluster of the polling samples. They can neither read nor comprehend what is being presented by all parties; let alone how easily influenced they could be by fictitious promises for values and return to God.
And the American
people did not have a chance to feel the pain and suffering of liberal Muslim and
Christian Egyptians (a good sixty-five million) because the American media
coverage did not stretch its coverage to include the recent suffering of
Egyptians and Egyptian Christians nor that of the narrow-mindedness of a few who
use religion to entice fanatics at the detriment of centuries of heritage and
thousand of lives, churches and cultural sites of Egypt. To top it, Secretary
Clinton (and others) stood in Tahrir Square in Cairo, in early 2011 and
witnessed the killing of Egyptians but applauded the revolution… so maybe they can tolerate some tomatoes
and potatoes.
Alexandria Ramleh Beach Panorama (Nicopolis, AD 30)
Secretary Clinton and President
Obama, I plead you not to undermine the Egyptians or to intervene to help them understand; Egypt is
seven thousand years old and character is engraved in its people, their roots
and branches. Egyptians have suffered a lot because of such extremist thought,
let alone colonialism and the tripartite aggression of 1956 with USA standing
still (had it not been for the Hon. Lester B. Pearson of Canada who saved a
catastrophe; God bless his soul). Egyptians love Americans and they count on your leadership. It doesn't take much to open your hearts. Let us not anger God; the halls of Egyptian martyrs are far too crowded; and the intellectually curious women of Egypt are far to eager to flourish, than to condone this undemocratically elected narrow minded party which you endorse and support. How can you do
this to your friends... really? You have just compromised millions of Egyptian Christians and Egyptian Muslim liberals by condoning the oppressors; you handed the grieving Egyptians to their assailers! And this new party, together with its worldwide allies (a number of which are in the Middle East) is but an ax about to break the fragile social cohesion of the majority of Egyptians who respect each other's faiths. As if demolishing dictatorship was truly, only, attributable to the unconstitutional impeaching of President Mubarak and not the unconstitutionally forcing of his substitute, the threats of his party or the silence of its worldwide partners!
And, oh, world media, God
bless you; please stretch your vision… Maybe you can make a difference and put
an end to unwanted religious hate and uncontrollable slaughtering of Egyptians (of
all faiths) and heritage! They have burnt thousands of Egyptian churches across
the centuries, and promised to do so, again, in some cities (though with no declared intentions of killing), let alone abolishing freedom of thought and destruction of
heritage and cultural and scientific Egyptian relics.
If the Secretary of State and the
present President of USA are proven to be aware of the Egyptian suffering while
continuing to condone this imposed party, they may want to cede governing the great and kind people of
Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and John F. Kennedy to a new capable
administration. It they did not know about it, it is grave! Very grave!
Personally, let alone the “disrespectful” rotten tomatoes and potatoes, I want
to apologize to the families of the bereaved Egyptians on behalf of Mrs.
Clinton and Mr. Obama because they have failed to court you in your grief and chosen
to add insults to your injuries, rather than taking a stand!
...I pray for you, oh casualties of cultural, religious hate and world corporate greed.
...I pray for you, oh casualties of cultural, religious hate and world corporate greed.
Rafik Baladi
Jasmines from Egypt Branches Forever (Please read my novel)
