It’s very strange that the Egyptian
government has issued a statement saying that the fine imposed by an
arbitration agency in the case of exporting natural gas to the Zionist state –
which is about 2 billion dollars; meaning about 17 billion Egyptian pounds –
has nothing to do with the government… and that it’s the Egyptian General
Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) and the gas company that are entitled to pay for
this fine… they talk as if this corporation and company exist in other country
and not ours… and that this gas is extracted from Mars and not from our land.
But what is not strange indeed is the
alliance made between Mubarak’s regime – the thief as ruled by the court
verdict – and Egyptian capitalism… such capitalism that includes some examples which
are more savage and notorious than Dracula and Judas combined.
We find ourselves standing before a
case that clearly describes how mean was this group of profiteers who ruled our
country for 30 years… such group that followed after what its founder; Sadat
had established when he once said: “Egypt has become more expensive… those who
will not make fortunes during my time… will never make it”… then the unbridled Infitah
started; meaning the open market but in the Sadat’s way… that Infitah
that was the beginning of inclination and deterioration…
It’s like applying the theory of
Communicating vessels on such capitalist group… again, there was another
strange phenomenon; both parties, meaning the ruling regime and the allying
capitalist group pretended to be pious and devout… and that’s why they made
reconciliation with those who had the same false devotion; meaning muslim
brotherhood and all their likes… and so, they were in good terms with them
since the seventies and until their spiritual leader; Murshed, ruled
Egypt.
The gas case started by forging
numbers of gas reserves… when then-minister of petroleum used to declare
everyday that we are floating over massive layers of gas reserves and those
reserves will not drain in thousand years… but certainly this crime does not
end by exporting the gas to the Zionist enemy at very low prices compared to
the international market price… it seems they exaggerated about the reserves’
numbers to give an excuse for exporting the gas for the enemy at such
unbelievably very low prices… not caring a bit if they are betraying their
homeland and stabbing it in the core of its coming generations’ future in doing
such treason deed.
Before continuing further, I want to
say that I still don’t understand how a sovereign government agency was
involved in such thing… and why this agency has not issued a statement replying
and refuting such thing… and if there was a mistake, it’s very likely that they
admit it and unveil their firm intention to correct it and not do it again.
Now we go into discussing the whole
of our national natural resources of minerals similar to gas… also discussing the
necessity to open all its files through the last five decades so that first, people
can know what natural resources they possess… second, to know how to deal with
such treasures… third, to know those who put their hands on those resources and
whether they looted and stole them or not and the fortunes they made out of
looting public money… forth, people shall know where and how such fortunes were
deployed?... and had those fortunes stolen helped reinforce corruption,
despotism and social inequality or not?... and what is the vision and program
of the current regime to stand against what is still left of such corruption
practices on all levels?
Now, they will say… “hey… look… this
man has a grudge against capitalism and capitalists… he adopts an ideology that
is anti-progress that guaranteed modernity for developed countries… he is
calling for class struggle and is enflaming it”… but they have already started
saying and “acting” on all levels…
And so we can simply understand the
daily recurring vicious campaign against the decades of the fifties and sixties…
and against Gamal Abdel-Nasser and his social ideology… it’s a recurring campaign
indeed including some capitalists and businessmen… you can also find some
journalists and articles and columns’ writers… also media people and others who
work for such capitalists… joining this campaign…
Almost daily, you can meet one of
those opening fire at any event, occasion, saying or stance that belongs to
Nasser… I can even tell for sure that some of them write as per instructions
given to him from a capitalist owning a media facility or just to satisfy the
one owning the facility he is working for to guarantee the business owner’s consent.
Their undeclared goal standing
behind such attack is delivering a daily message to president Sisi and his
ruling regime not to follow Nasser’s model… otherwise, you will be attacked in
the same way until you retreat or disappear.
Now, back to the gas case, the substantial
fine and our government… I want to assure here that nations’ memory is not weak…
and that accumulating crimes will lead to change in the right moment with every
means available… starting from reform and reaching to violent revolution… Re-prosecute
those thieves… looting nations’ national treasures and natural resources is not
a minor crime.
This article
was published in Al Ahram newspaper on December 10, 2015.
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