I’m not against those
who take the Zionist state as a role model to follow by anyone seeking progress…
and who always make use of any chance to bring experts from there… believing that
hard efforts should be exerted to make use of such expertise… It’s even said
that some had already brought experts from there and decided to make use and
profits by hiring their experiences to others through them…
Also, I’m not against
those who unleash their sharp tongues against anyone who tries to open history
books and recall the bloody phases of the Zionist movement… even after turning
into a state, the Zionist state didn’t cease to practice the bloody violence
and break international laws and commons…
What I want to say and
debate over is that why don’t we witness any serious attempt by those Zionist experiment’s
worshippers to take it as a role model in building the society and reinforcing
the state?
Of course, it would be
downright ridiculous if I asked those admirers of the Zionist state to start by
holding a conference like Basel Conference and ask the great powerful countries
to recognize them as an Egyptian Zionist movement… then, they shall shift to
another phase; that is forming armed group gangs like “Stern gang” or “Irgun
gang” or any other paramilitary groups that stood against the “occupying” Palestinian
existence over Israel “historic land”... Then, they can wage a “liberation” war
like that of 1948…etc… flouting all the laws, conventions and agreements only
for the sake of Egypt they aspire to be like “Israel”… Yes, indeed… that would
be utterly downright ridiculous and out of time or place!
The point I want to question
about here is that why do they use Zionist experts and models in increasing
capital profits in fields like agriculture, agricultural genetic engineering,
some irrigation systems and maybe some extraction activities, while they don’t take
the Zionist model as an example in two other sides; first is education and
scientific research and second is society cohesion and removing obstacles
before people coming from different societies and cultures to live in one
place; the Zionist state… and for the purpose of achieving a single goal; a
strong state absolutely superior over its neighbors in the region?
I have already written
few months before about capitalist models that helped contribute to the
progress of humankind… and others contributed to the establishment and balance
of a certain society… for the first type, I gave an example of Medici Family…
and I pointed to the role of the great prince Lorenzo and I talked about the
beginning of the great European renaissance starting from Tuscany and Florence…
and how Lorenzo declared it publicly that he wouldn’t hesitate to sell all
furniture of the Medici family houses to complete building libraries and
supplying them with books in Tuscany and Florence…
I also gave another
example for the second case; the Rothschild family… which its founder had five children whom
he distributed over Germany, France, Holland, Belgium and Italy… one of the
Rothschild family offspring was James de Rothschild, father of the Zionist settlements
who donated millions of Sterling pounds to bring Jewish migrants to Israel and
settle them in and provided all that is needed for that… he also refused to
mention his name over anything… just the title “philanthropist”.
Today, I wonder… why haven’t
those “genius” capitalists, who can’t cease to glorify the Zionist experiment
and take it as a role model, worked on establishing universities like the
Technion; Israel institute of technology, and the Hebrew University?
The Technion, which
two or more of its scientists were awarded the Nobel prize, was established upon
civil contributions by a group of Zionists a quarter of century before the Zionist
state came to eminence… it was first established in 1924 in the same place of
what is known today as the museum of sciences, technology and space… then, it
was moved to its current location on mount Carmel in 1953… due to the vast area
occupied by the institute, it was called the “village of the Technion”…
I here excerpt from a
website established by that university which is considered the first in the Zionist
state regarding educational standards in fields of sciences, engineering and
medicine… if anyone wants to know more about universities and education in the Zionist
state, they can surf the internet and shall find wealth of information about
everything starting from acceptance criteria, variety of colleges, educational
and social environments and living in Haifa itself as to weather,
transportations, cost of living, demographic composition and entertainment
places.
Likewise, The Hebrew
university was established upon civil contributions in Jerusalem in 1925;
meaning one year after the Technion… sources say it’s a public Israeli
university in the city of Jerusalem established in the time of British occupation
mandate by an initiative of the Zionist movement… this university is considered
one of the best academic institutions in Israel… it also includes Nobel prize
awarded-scientists and is listed in the 64th place worldwide as per
Shanghai ranking of universities…
The university is
funded by the state in addition to – which is very important to mention here – donations,
revenues of selling books, granting copyrights over researches… also, one of
the most important financial resources for the university is selling
permissions to use the name and photo of Albert Einstein as per his will since
he asked for the rights of using his name and photo to be transferred to the
university after his death… again, if anyone wants to know more, they shall
search the internet.
Going back to the
question I asked above to those extremely busy doing two things; the first is
glorifying the Zionist model and state considering it the model that shall be
followed by all who seek progress, development and achievement… the second is
the earnest endeavors to smear the mental image visualized by the majority of people
regarding the time period spanning from 1952 to 1970 and its symbol Gamal
Abdel-Nasser and attack him as if he is still alive…
What makes it really
funny and caricaturistic is that we may have laughed if we were in 1973 and
found some committing regular spaces in newspapers to attack Sa’ad Zaghloul…
since the time span between Zaghloul’s death and 1973 is 46 years which is the
same time period since Nasser left our world and our present time…
Imagine for example that
Ahmed Bahaa ed-Din, Haikal, Muhammed Zaki Abdel-Qader and others dedicating
their columns and articles in 1973 to warn people of Saad Zaghloul’s negatives
and bad deeds… or even the contrary; meaning they might have written about the
greatness of Saad Zaghloul and mention his feats and good deeds… it’d have been
funny indeed.
We witnessed no one of
those who keep telling us about the greatness of the Zionist experiment
launching an initiative to encourage his fellow capitalists who agree to his
point of view to establish an Egyptian Zionist movement… and to establish the
Egyptian Technion and Egyptian Hebrew University!
There is absolutely great
difference between worshipping yourself and maximizing your financial profits
and worshipping your country or idea and acting like the great prince Lorenzo who
established the European renaissance or being one of the Rothschild’s who
established, funded and contributed to the establishment of the Zionist state…
or like those unknowns who established the Technion and the Hebrew University
and whose names are not remembered.
Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar
Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar
This
article was published in Almasry alyoum newspaper on September 7, 2016.
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