Nasser… Sisi… and dead wolf head

Despite almost half a century has passed since he left our world, attempts to kill off Nasser’s character are still ongoing… Those attempts are not aimed at Nasser alone… however, they aim at disconnecting rings of Egyptian national struggle… and disrupting phases of Egyptian national renaissance based on maintaining the Egyptian state and strengthening its bases…

And then they threaten using the model of “dead wolf head” to terrify the current national leadership and prevent it from pursuing the national struggle and Egyptian renaissance project… in the same time, they are keen to follow their ancestors… those who considered themselves “people of the real interest in Egypt”… those ancestors who chose to cooperate with the British occupation… to adopt westernization in thought and behavior… to give priority to revenue and self interests over any other values… and finally, they worked to tie the country to the internationally-dominating strategies and interests… depending on the era… meaning since the old colonial empires to the savage new-imperialist capitalism… including the Zionist state that is considered, according to history and politics, a true extension of colonization; old and modern… as Israel is a perfect model of racist settler colonialism…

This is my explanation for the campaign that turned into almost a syndrome rashing over those afflicted with it every now and then… and so they can’t help but write unceasingly attacking Nasser and July 23 revolution… and of course, along with them all social, economic, cultural and intellectual aspects of both the revolution and Nasser.

We don’t, and shall not in all means, seek to expect the current national leadership represented by president Sisi, to be an identical copy of Nasser lest we make the same mistake… also, we don’t expect to have the same policies like before… since it’s a sick feeling of nostalgia to the past that doesn’t take into consideration the massive changes that took place during that long time… and so there is no chance left to any kind of repeating past eras’ policies… not to mention that this attitude is unfair to the current national action since every leader has his own character and vision…

There is great difference between dealing with fundamentals of Egyptian national existence imposed by necessities of geography and geopolitics and which are also mentioned in history lessons since central state was first established around the river and started controlling the relation tying the river and sea, the valley and desert… and other political facts stating that there were policies and practices valid at their own very time and era but no longer are in our present time… exactly like many other human, political and intellectual phenomena…

Geography facts and history morals have the priority… as they have one definition for Egyptian national security necessities… those necessities that were long expressed and formulated by ancient Egyptians in theories of strategy professors’ and history philosophers…

For example, ancient Egyptian inscriptions speak of the king – especially that of the modern dynasties – as the one who works to secure “the land”… land here means Egypt… by securing the easternmost projection of the African continent and reversed river resources… meaning the Horn of Africa where Land of Punt lies… also where mummification materials and other valuable materials used to come… this area that stretches to Mandab strait along with the eastern coast and the land beyond it; now known as Eritrea, South Sudan and Ethiopia… all that region that controls Egypt security… they also headed north to secure the Tigris and Euphrates rivers’ resources flowing from Taurus Mountains… they are also called reversed waters since they run from north to south… unlike the unique case of the River Nile running from south to north…

They conducted military campaigns and established checkpoints of surveillance and early warning… they also extended sources of potable water…etc… this strategic geographical fact along with all the details associated to it in history lessons is an established truth throughout ages to date.

In this way, if it happened that all great Egyptian leaders paid due attention to the River Nile and its relation to the sea and national security… then it’s because they are fully aware of the national fundamentals… and not because they repeat old practices… in this regard, there are a lot of examples to tell, and which are known to those aiming at disconnecting rings of our national struggle and disrupting phases of our renaissance project…

But they will not cease to write about their syndrome unless they guarantee full control over decision making process in Egypt… it’s the truth… and this is the real essence of the conflict bustling in Egypt now… it’s a conflict between committing to national fundamentals and destroying and going astray from them… it’s a mental and psychological struggle… and I don’t think there is a near end to it.

Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar

This article was published in Al Ahram newspaper on September 28, 2016.

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