Gang of subversive cultural lag

A state of hysterical piffle is increasing by this gang of subversive cultural lag whenever the impact of the June 30^th revolution gets stronger and achievements on the domestic level and on the foreign circles; Arab, African, and international get more evident… as the decisive main role in all that was and will always be for the Egyptian army and the broad masses of the Egyptian people.

Such hysterical state has started since that alliance of feudalism, Capital, corruption, and British occupation in Egypt was hit by the July 23^rd revolution in 1952… that revolution that came as a phase completing other long phases of the struggle of the Egyptian people in their modern and contemporary history; meaning since their revolution against the French Campaign at the end of the eighteenth century and the dawn of the nineteenth century.

It is a gang since it is a composition that cannot have the honor of being described as a division, community, or even a group as such names are given to other respectful compositions… but the gang, in its contemporary definition, best suits the criminal compositions.

Also, it is a hysterical piffle since the parties of the gang, including capitalists, owners of satellite channels, and others who “commit” the profession of writing and some of them have daily columns, are supposed to be normal beings due to their education, culture, and the nature of their work, but what they do reveals they are diagnosed with a composite psychological mental disorder.

Moreover, it is a subversive cultural lag since they make desperate efforts to stop the wheel of progress and smash it and to mess with the national conscience and rip it apart… the more intense the domestic fighting, the more hysterical they become and the more fuel they add to the fire.

They declare all the time that July 23^rd revolution was and will be a heinous subversive action that killed Egypt and the Egyptians… and that the royal regime, its figures, along with the British occupation, that remained until 1954 and tried to come back to power in 1956 but failed, were all good and everything was doing great… and so, they regard all the achievements, policies, orientations, and stances related to that revolution and its figures as guilty… they even refuse to go into a reasoned discussion about it… then suddenly one finds them praising Sadat and considering him a hero and a symbol for their orientations for a clear target; that is driving a wedge in the structure of July revolution and ripping its history apart as part of ripping the national conscience.

They turn their back to the fact that Anwar Sadat was a member of the Free Officers movement… and that he was the one announcing the statement of the revolution in radio… and that he remained a serving soldier to its goals and close to Nasser until his death… and that he was his only deputy; that is why he assumed the office of presidency after him… and that he, until his death in 1981, remained proud of the July revolution and his role in it to the extent that during the parties’ experiment that started in 1976, it happened that Sadat adopted a strict stance against the enemies of July revolution and described Fouad Serag el-Din and his group with what they deserved and did not cease to throw them in jail.

It is a gang that collaborated with muslim brotherhood in embedding subversive cultural lag as both of them were part of a common cultural social economic composition that we call capitalism by mistake… such composition does not deserve such name since respected capitalism has achievements and practices that cannot be culturally lagging or subversive.

I do believe that such gang still wishes and seeks the return of muslim brotherhood as they think the European and American orientation aims at enabling the fundamentalist groups with the religious-based orientations of ruling the region for known time-consuming to explain reasons.

And so, we found one of those servants of such gang, who “commit” writing a daily column in a private newspaper that has no known cultural, ideological, or social orientation, writing and issuing final judgments, just like one diagnosed with hysterical rave, that July 23^rd revolution is a crime… then he travelled to Erdogan’s Turkey to appear in the muslim brotherhood satellite channel “Mekammelien”… and after that he praises Sadat while asking the owner of the satellite channel to join him in these hysterical practices.

In my opinion, the subversive cultural lag-spreading gang will not rest or calm down unless they succeed in having a mischievous shake-up between the Egyptian people and the Egyptian army as the latter is the leader of July 1952 revolution, 1973 victory, and the June 30^th revolution… furthermore, if we put aside the figures of Mohammed Naguib, Nasser, Sadat, Mubarak, and Sisi, the Egyptian army will be the one leading the national struggle… phase after phase and time after time.

I call on all normal people in our country not to take the bait offered on the hands of this gang and to reveal what parties of such gang commit against the people, army, and country… I also ask to deal with our historical course as complete connected phases with each one having its own positive and negative sides, but they still remain connecting and completing each other… Sadat and the victory of October belong to July revolution and not to that subversive cultural lag-spreading gang.

Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar.

This article was published in Al Ahram newspaper on October 12, 2017.

To see the original article, go to:

http://ahmadelgammal.blogspot.com.eg/2017/10/blog-post_12.html

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The fallacy

The biggest and most dangerous fallacy - if not a lie – regarding the two islands’ issue is that some deliberately intend to divide dispute or quarrel parties into two categories. The first one includes those believing the two islands are Egyptian and that we should stick to our rights in them shouting out loud that land is honor, dignity, and homeland itself. The second, meanwhile, includes those believing the two islands are Saudi and should be returned back. Such differentiation describes the first group as the patriot one we should listen to and worthy to decide the nation’s fate while the second was the one including the traitors who agreed to cede our sovereignty on the two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia; meaning they agreed to give away our honor and dignity, and hence we should not listen to them or even let them live on our land.

It’s not the first such incident in our contemporary history, especially after July 1952 revolution. Although History does not repeat itself, its incidents sometimes may look alike giving the same moral. Almost the same false arguments and dissemination took place at the time of the Anglo-Egyptian agreement of 1954 regarding evacuation of English troops, and even raged after signing and declaring the agreement to the public. Criticism, attack, and even claims of betrayal were leveled at Gamal Abdel Nasser and his fellow Free Officers[1]. No one of those attackers, who behaved as symbols of patriotism and honor and considered themselves the sage philosophers and genius professors of law and diplomacy of all times, paid attention to the efforts exerted by Nasser and the experts and scientists; members of the negotiating delegation, not even to the objective circumstances governing the negotiation atmosphere along with all the tiny specific details connected to the case. Nasser was then-Prime minister and head of the Egyptian delegation in negotiation. He was accompanied by Abdel Hakim Amer[2], Abdel Latif al-Bughdadi[3], Salah Salem[4], and Mahmoud Fawzi[5]. The agreement included thirteen articles in addition to other annexes and attachments. However article no. 12, which included three clauses, was the one under heavy attack.

The first clause in article no. 12 stipulated that: this agreement shall be effective for a period of seven years as of signing date. The second: the two governments shall negotiate during the last twelve months of the agreement’s effective period to decide all necessary measures that should be taken at the end of the agreement. The third clause: this agreement is rendered ineffective after seven years starting as of the signing date, and government of the United Kingdom shall transfer or take action regarding what is left of its proprieties in the Suez base at that time unless the two governments agree on extending this agreement. The fourth article also received fierce attack of betrayal claims for it has stipulated: “in the event of an armed attack by some outside power on any state member of the common defense pact of the Arab league signed upon in Cairo on April 13, 1950, or on Turkey at the signing of this agreement, Egypt shall provide to the United Kingdom all that is necessary to prepare the base for war and guarantee its effective management. Such facilitating measures include using the Egyptian ports within limits specified by ultimate urgency for the purposes before mentioned”. Severe criticism and claims of betrayal were directed at Nasser and his fellows accusing them of not expelling the English troops at once and that they gave away Egyptian territory when they agreed to the return of the English troops to the Suez base and Egyptian ports... Days passed and Britain was expelled not only from Egypt but also from the history of big nations after the Tripartite Aggression of the Suez Crisis on 1956 took place, in addition, the agreement was declared null and void.

Another example of such incident was when Egypt signed the agreement acknowledging Sudan’s right in self-determination provided that full self-governance in Sudan should start at once. It was on November, 1952. At that time, attackers claimed that July 1952 revolution had given away the Egyptian territory as they considered Sudan part of it, and called Nasser a traitor for he has agreed to give the Sudanese the right to decide their fate. Until our present time, some still refer any problem arising between Egypt and Sudan to that so-called giving away by Nasser and the July revolution.

All those hurling criticism, now and before, forgot what Nasser and the July revolution did when they called for the right of people to decide their fate and that freedom of countries is inseparable of that of people. They forgot that Nasser outshined in the whole world through two consecutive decades because he was one of the pioneers calling for national liberation. They also forgot that Egypt stood for the right of Third World countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America to liberate.

Turning back to Tiran and Sanafir issue, I stop by those who made such ugly dissemination and say – ignoring for the first time names and lines written, including someone pretending to be the philosopher of all times – I think we should now focus on two issues. First, we should let our parliament fully take up its role as to debating the accord of outlining the Egyptian-Saudi maritime borders as per all criteria of precision in order to come out with the right decision. The second is to avoid any aftermath that may affect our relation with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and our brother Arabs in states of the Gulf Cooperation Council for I believe the siege imposed on our country from all sides; west, east, north, and south, requires that we should keep good relations with our direct eastern neighbor who did not hesitate to stand by our side at the darkest moments because our neighbor believes that Egypt collapse would eventually lead to his, sooner or later.

In my opinion, it’s not a matter of sticking to land or giving it away, nor a matter of betrayal or patriotism, but rather a matter of wrong or right judgment. The first lacks multi-sided justified causes while the second depends heavily on those justified causes. Nasser signed the Anglo-Egyptian agreement of evacuation on 1954, and before that al-Nahhas Pasha[6] signed the Anglo-Egyptian treaty of 1936, and time was enough for Egypt to overcome what was not in her favor.

Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar

This article was published in Al Ahram newspaper on April 21, 2016.

To see the Arabic article, go to:

http://ahmadelgammal.blogspot.com.eg/2016/04/blog-post_20.html

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[1] The Free Officers: (Arabic: حركة الضباط الأحرار‎) were a group of nationalist officers in the armed forces of Egypt and Sudan that instigated the Egyptian Revolution of 1952. It operated as a clandestine movement of junior officers during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Muhammad Naguib joined the Free Officers in 1949, after the war, and became their official leader during the turmoil leading up the revolution because of the hero status he had earned during the war, and his influence in the army. (Source: Wikipedia)

[2] Mohamed Abdel Hakim Amer: (Arabic: محمد عبد الحكيم عامر‎) (11 December 1919 – 14 September 1967) was an Egyptian general and political leader. (Source: Wikipedia)

[3] Abdel Latif Bughdadi: (20 September 1917 – 9 September 1999) (Arabic: عبد اللطيف البغدادي‎) was an Egyptian politician, senior air force officer, and judge. An original member of the Free Officers Movement which overthrew the monarchy in Egypt in the 1952 Revolution, Bughdadi later served as Gamal Abdel Nasser's vice president. The French author Jean Lacouture called Boghdadi "a robust manager" who only lacked "stature comparable to Nasser's. The two leaders had a fallout over Nasser's increasingly socialist and pro-USSR policies and Bughdadi subsequently withdrew from political life in 1964, although he mended ties with Nasser before the latter's death in 1970. (Source: Wikipedia)

[4] Salah Salem: (Arabic: صلاح سالم‎) (September 25, 1920 – February 18, 1962) was an Egyptian military officer, and politician, and a member of the Free Officers Movement that orchestrated the Egyptian Revolution of 1952. (Source: Wikipedia)

[5] Mahmoud Fawzi: (Arabic: محمود فوزى‎) (19 September 1900 – 12 June 1981) was an Egyptian diplomat and political figure of Circassian origin who was Prime Minister of Egypt from 1970-1972 and Vice President of Egypt from 1972-1974. (Source: Wikipedia)

[6] Mustafa el-Nahhas Pasha or Mustafa Nahhas: (Arabic: مصطفى النحاس باشا‎; June 15, 1879 – August 23, 1965) was an Egyptian political figure. (Source: Wikipedia)

Worst news Zionists heard

Nile at Aswan

 In the early 50s when the July 23 revolution erupted and the new regime started to settle down, an American official came to Egypt and met Gamal Abdel Nasser leader of the revolution. Later, that American official went to Israel to meet with the Zionist leaders and thought they would go happy when he tells them that Nasser told him he had no intention to wage a war against Israel for he was totally busy building his country and developing it. Unlike what the American official thought, Zionist leaders – as I can remember they were Sharett and Ben-Gurion – replied that this is the worst news they ever heard of or expected about Egypt for they believe Egypt being busy building and developing its renaissance constitutes the real danger to Israel. This incident is authenticated and was previously published tens if not hundreds of times. The Israeli air-raid on Gaza took place after this and history went by as we all know and some of us even witnessed those incidents until the time we were totally devoted to fight against Israel and postponing most – if not all – of our development plans. Moreover, we let go some of the most important strategic projects that we went far in… details in this regard are many and exhausting to tell!

This introduction is not meant to call for retrogression and dwelling in one’s own affairs and let go of Egypt’s responsibilities toward its geographical circumference and direct national security where Palestine and Levant countries represent Egypt’s direct north-eastern gate, and where the racist colonial Zionist state is the biggest and real danger, not ignoring that religion-proclaimed terrorism groups, as I do believe, are also a real threat to our nation. This introduction is meant to highlight the necessity of discussing our country’s stance on the domestic level on all aspects; political, economic, social, cultural, and all that has to do with Egypt, and whether that domestic situation have a direct impact on our foreign policy since the latter is absolutely inseparable of the former.

It’s not a sin for a nation to go through a period of decline having such deterioration affecting its role and commitments on all aspects. However, ignoring such situation and giving it a blind eye is the real sin. Also tackling the matter irresponsibly is another sin like those claiming-to-be experts who dub and chant hot slogans and lead massing protests that is capable of wasting all energy and angry reactions feeling they did what they ought to do. It’s also Ok to add some spices by demanding to lower our diplomatic representation, expelling an ambassador, or even freezing relations while cooperation in intelligence and economic affairs is actively running under the table like the case between Turkey and Qatar. Another irresponsible attitude to tackle the situation is to add fuel to the already-enflamed conflict, call for the military solution and engage in war fights while the undeclared target is to escape the domestic crisis by waging an outside open war despite all reality evidences affirming we don’t have the complete or near-complete capacity to go into a real war where victory is guaranteed. Meanwhile, we would have managed to evade the sharp criticism of those writing in newspapers and talking on TV who don’t want our beloved country to rise out of the current mired situation, in addition to others who cannot distinguish between committing suicide and going into a fight based on solid basis.

In a country inflicted with poverty, ignorance, diseases like Hepatitis and Kidney failure, and terrorism until it was on the verge of a civil war… in the absence of all cohesion factors and presence of all sectarian, doctrine, and social separating factors… in a country begging for help and aid while its billionaires deny any effort to provide assistance… in a country where half its population are under poverty line and illiteracy exceeds 40 percent while cultural and religion ignorance is dominating… in a country worn out by corruption and organized looting while its army and police are busy maintaining domestic security… in such a country, some accuse Egypt of retreat and taking sides with the Zionist enemy.

In addition, having such a fight with the Zionist enemy practically and logically requires a strong bulwark-acting Arab nations starting from frontline countries like Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon and extending to include supporting Arab countries providing backup like Iraq, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and the rest of the Arab nations… where are all these countries right now? Where is Syria that was once present in both war and peace… where is Iraq, the strong supporting country rich in water, oil, financial resources, and people… where……? The list goes on.

Stop chanting empty slogans and let us take a thorough look at our reality; domestically, regionally, and internationally as well. Let us go through the long-term challenge that is based on strong solid foundations. That long-term challenge is about building a cohesive and strong social and economic infrastructure by our own hands… about possessing an applicable research-based scientific infrastructure that is not less than that of the enemy. Let us all unite on a single target; that is Egypt’s glory, strength and its pivotal role toward its circumference like Zionists do starting from atheists to rabbis… from doves – in case they existed – to hawks when they work to make Israel the dominant and most powerful country in the region exceeding all its neighboring countries. The real long-term challenge is to bring our factories that were sold back… to restore our economic institutions that were liquidated and make it stronger… to have a proper educational process running in our universities and research centers… to have normal healthy social relations prevailing in our society. Only at that time, we will be able to put an end to the conflict where fighting action is inseparable of the resisting one.

Let those forces eligible to fight on Palestine fight and let glory and eternity be to martyrs. Meantime, let us keep resisting by rebuilding our Egypt to be an independent free nation that is self-sustained and generous to its neighbors. Let us all work hard so that Zionists hear the worst news they hate most; that Egypt is gaining its strength and glory back.

Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar

This article was published in Al Ahram newspaper on July 31, 2014.

To see the Arabic article, go to:

http://ahmadelgammal.blogspot.com.eg/2014/07/blog-post.html

#alahram #ahmed_elgammal #Egypt #Israel #Zionists #July_23 #1952