One side has the advantage of being only twelve months away from an election victory. Thus, it claims a continuing democratic legitimacy and uses pejorative language against its opponents.
Meanwhile, the other side is responding to real worries about foreign policy, economic failure, religious intolerance and an alleged misuse of democratic authority.
Is there any way to reconcile the two sides? Is there hope for Egypt? Should not Egypt be a world leader rather than a parochial state beset by factionalism?
Firstly, foreign policy. To its utter shame, Egypt is effectively selling out Palestine and is indulging in gross sectarianism as manifested by its behaviour towards Syria. By so doing, Egypt is forsaking a statesmanlike lead for the Middle East and, instead, has become an instrument of Zionism.
Zionism is not a viable long-term policy. Israel is a racist entity bent on territorial expansion and a creeping genocide of the Palestinians. Nobody in the Middle East believes otherwise with the possible exception of the autocratic Arab regimes of the Mideast, which have set their faces against democracy. At the moment, these regimes are able to suppress their populations because the USA allows them to do so in exchange for their tacit, or active, support of Israel.
Yet more and more Americans are realising that national foreign policy, hijacked by Israel, is not in the long-term interest of the USA. They are becoming aware that the USAs moral authority is dissipating daily (and the worldwide spying revelations are adding to that dissipation) and that any form of further downturn in the Western economies could precipitate the final collapse of the USA dollar. This would have huge implications for the USAs ability to maintain its worldwide military presence and wars.
Moreover, one day, even the truth about 9/11 will be revealed with major implications for the existence of Israel and Egypts relations with the USA. Many people are noticing that the USA blames al-Qaeda for 9/11, yet, at the moment in Syria, it is arming al-Qaeda! The truth about 9/11 is gradually seeping out
But, instead of understanding these things, President Morsi, to his everlasting disgrace, has effectively cast in his lot with the Takfiris, the throat-slitters and head-choppers. Like Erdogan of Turkey, he has infuriated the most intelligent people of his nation by furthering a sectarian foreign policy.
However, most Egyptians know that their true destiny is to be non-sectarian, in opposition to Zionist expansion, and anti-autocratic. In these respects, they would be advised to take advice from Iran.
Secondly, the crux of the apparent division of Egypt into two warring factions lies in a failure to give any hope of achieving what most Egyptians aspire to, i.e. a genuinely independent Egypt, free from foreign influence and control.
Indeed, deep down, Egyptians are ashamed that, after their revolution, when hopes were so high, they have failed to create a genuinely independent nation.
On the one hand, there are those who think that introducing Islam into politics necessarily results in independence. On the other hand, there are those who are only too aware that Egypt is becoming trapped and controlled by Western finance capitalism, particularly as exemplified by the decision to take a big loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The answer, for both sides, is to establish a genuinely independent national bank. Yes, this means that, like Syria and Iran, Egypt will be the object of Western suspicion or worse, because national banks lie at the core of genuine independence.
The West does not like independent nations and the national banks, which are the source of a nations independence. Such a bank can create its own loans, interest-free, for its government. Over time, it can eliminate national debt.
Furthermore, a national bank can forward the spreading of the real economy to every single member of society. This can be done without inflation.
Moreover, poverty and rising prices are perhaps the biggest push factors in the present troubles. They can be mitigated, and eventually ended, if a country determines to use its own national bank and not be in permanent hock to the global financiers.
Thirdly, religion. Genuine religion is tolerant. It does not welcome Takfiris and Zionists, who have nothing but hatred for others. Both Takfiris and Zionists think they are Gods chosen people and so anybody else can be killed.
There is also no doubt that the Egyptian people thought that, in their desire to find something which could overthrow the Mubarak regime, all the answers would lie in an appeal to Islam. The principles of Islam, which include justice and tolerance of others, are fine.
Though, the Egyptian government, claiming a democratic mandate, has unfortunately favoured the Muslim Brotherhood at the expense of other groupings. A narrow party politics is not a wise long term policy.
Above all, disappointed in the failure so far, Egyptians need to attain a sense of genuine revolution. This will only happen if:
1.foreign policy is clearly anti-Zionist and resistant to Zionist America and its agents such as the IMF;
2.a national bank issuing interest-free loans is established;
3.the loans are used to spread the real economy to every person in society;
4.Islam's principle of religious tolerance is truly practiced;
5.and a narrow party politics is eschewed.
If these things are done, the result will be a major step forward for the Islamic Awakening.
By Press TV
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