{"id":11739,"date":"2014-02-26T19:54:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T17:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/?p=11739"},"modified":"2024-08-22T18:37:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T16:37:18","slug":"part-of-the-story-of-egypt-in-3years-by-hossam-badrawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/part-of-the-story-of-egypt-in-3years-by-hossam-badrawi\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Part of the story of Egypt in 3years\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0By Hossam Badrawi\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Part of the story of Egypt in 3years\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0By Hossam Badrawi\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0February 2014\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When i received an invitation from 3 different anchors of popular talk shows in the last 2 weeks to\u00a0 share my views about what is currently happening in Egypt and the prospects of the future, i found\u00a0 myself spontaneously hesitating to accept invitation. I requested to postpone interviews for 2 rea sons, the first was to avoid talking about the past , particularly in February of the year , as every\u00a0 one wanted me ,again , to reveal secrets of the time i spent in the core of actions, after being\u00a0 called for by ex president Mubarak to lead the ruling party at the time. As i resigned one week later,\u00a0 due to political differences in how to interact with demonstrators, it became the interest of media to\u00a0 know what exactly happened and how?. After 3 years, i did not want to be trapped in this era , or\u00a0 displaced from sharing my views for the future of the country, which is more important and less\u00a0 talked about.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The second reason was rather hidden in my subconscious. I re- analyzed my TV interviews in June\u00a0 2013, in which i criticized the MBs loudly, with logistics. I found that i was freely announcing my\u00a0 political position, and attacking the incompetence of ex president Morsi and his repeated stupid\u00a0 speeches , and actions. The question raised , when asked to be interviewed today , is &#8221; do i have\u00a0 the same freedom today or not ?.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It seemed to me that my subconscious was under the impression that i have less freedom now\u00a0 than before!!. I was really upset to realize that the zone of freedom is narrower. Part of that is relat ed to the MBs terrorist attacks to the public that positioned opinionated people into either with or\u00a0 against the government which myopically reduced the zone of tolerance and freedom of speech.\u00a0 However , another reality is that their is now a wave of intolerance to opposition point of view in\u00a0 the government.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is no getting around it. i politically realize the MBs rule is a fascistic alternative however i\u00a0 have fears and reservations about how things are moving forwards today.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How did that happen? . Why are we in this situation today?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The Story of Egypt<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 2011 uprising left the security apparatus in Egypt only partially intact. We dis covered later on, that one of the most important objectives of those running the show\u00a0 behind the revolution namely the MBs, was to ruin the brain of the security institu tion within the ministry of interior and creat sever tension between any security uni form and the people. However, the military retained their autonomy and appeared\u00a0 intact with confidence yet leaning to support any civil structure but the NDP , which\u00a0 was governing the politics and elections but not really ruling the country .\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unfortunately , the moslem brotherhood and salafies were the only replacement of\u00a0 the NDP. They had the organization and the funding. People in tahrir were not revolt ing to give the political isslam the power , but in my opinion , the armed forces were\u00a0 after removing the NDP structure from the power game as fast as they can . Mind you\u00a0 , the constitution at that time ,was clear that the next president of Egypt was going to\u00a0 be a civilian from the existing political parties.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0The question of who would hold political office was open to narrow negotiation. \u00a0 It seems to me that the generals didn\u2019t mind trying out the power-hungry Ikhwan.\u00a0 They were more organized than the activists who sparked the revolt, and the only al ternative to the potentially organized remnants of the NDP which was the objective of\u00a0 organized political attacks and character assassination by the revolutionists, Al Ek wan ( MBs) and actually clearly not welcomed by the generals SCAF.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Creating a political vacuum was the trap Egypt went through blinded by the massive\u00a0 propaganda created to exclude organized political powers but the MBs\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MBs didn\u2019t pose, at the time, any threat to military privileges. Actually I believe they\u00a0 had no intention of dismantling the infrastructure of dictatorship and submitting\u00a0 themselves to the volatile moods of a democratic process; they just wanted to take\u00a0 Mubarak\u2019s place at the top. Their first enemy was Egypt&#8217;s intelligence apparatus\u00a0 which know every thing about them , sources of wealth and connection to in\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ternational intelligences in the world, and some leaders ( whom they could not in criminate) which posed a still , possible political opponents, and they (MBs) suc ceeded in getting rid of both using all kinds of attacks and later on by putting an ar ticle if the Islamic constitution to prevent any of those leaders to run for office for 10\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On February 2011, while the protesters were still entrenched in Tahrir Square, Morsi\u00a0 and the future head of the Brothers\u2019 Freedom and Justice Party, Saad al-Katatni, en tered into secret negotiations with the intelligence chief, Omar Soliman for a larger\u00a0 share of power in return for stopping the revolt. I personally attended one of those\u00a0 meetings on February 5<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, in which Morsi represented MBs, few days after escaping\u00a0 from his prison with the help of militant attacks, suspected at the time, proved later\u00a0 on ,to be Hamas militants who crossed borders in Gaza for that reason.. I in my polit ical capacity at the time, put the inquiry to VP Soliman, and he urged me to trust him\u00a0 and not to create more turbulence in negotiations as so much is going on beyond\u00a0 what appears on the surface. I was then excluded from any future negotiation and to tally put in the dark for fear of not being a team player, as posed by some of the pres ident aids who considered my presence as a threat to the regime and did not approve\u00a0 my appointment to lead the ruling party in the first place.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once Mubarak was ousted, the MBs pushed for ,and adopted the military-security\u00a0 program: elections first, constitution and reform later. Those few who argued, includ ing myself, that new democracies need to establish some basic guidelines before\u00a0 rushing to the ballot box were dismissed , attacked, and marginalized .\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Throughout the transitional period, after wining a little above 40% of parliament\u00a0 seats, 2012, as expected , against non organized politically divided block ,the MBs\u00a0 flipped the coin and blamed the protesters for the violence directed at them by the\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">state\u2013they were staging illegal protests, after all \u2013 and repeatedly alleged that the ac tivists were pawns of foreign intelligence services. In parliament, they took every op portunity to praise Egypt\u2019s law enforcers and blocked every attempt to hold them ac countable after they took control of them.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As soon as Morsi was sworn in, he congratulated the police for reforming them selves, audaciously referring to them as esteemed partners in the 2011 uprising.\u00a0 Needless to say, security abuses surged during Morsi\u2019s short tenure, and official coer cion was reinforced by the Brothers\u2019 own militias. They aimed to tune all forces to\u00a0 the benefit of maintaining their grasp on power.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Brothers believed that sacrificing revolutionaries was morally and practically\u00a0 justified. They felt entitled to exclusive rule after decades of toil. They had spent their\u00a0 best years behind bars: why should they now share power with a bunch of political\u00a0 adolescents? And how could the guardians of Islam ally themselves with irreverent\u00a0 secularists? As for the security apparatus, even if it could be dismantled, why would\u00a0 they want that when it was such an asset to them being in control. It isn\u2019t hard to un\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">derstand the cynicism that greeted the Brothers last June when they accused the pro testers of selling out the revolution and allowing the police state to \u2018return\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0The &#8220;democratically elected&#8221; MBs president Morsi and his regime broke all the rules\u00a0 and covenants of legitimacy. In November 2012, the Supreme Court was besieged by\u00a0 the president&#8217;s followers for more than 30 days to obstruct justice and delay the sen tencing in two crucial cases related to the constitutionality of both the Constituent\u00a0 Assembly and the Upper House (the Shoura Council).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During these days the president bestowed on himself the right to legislate and immu nized all his decrees from legal pursuit. He removed the Prosecutor General, breaking\u00a0 his constitutional oath and appointed the man of his choice, breaking yet again his\u00a0 constitutional limits. He thus became the Superman ruler of Egypt: the CEO, the leg islator and the magistrate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The MBs, with their president, who only spoke to them, has created institutional en emies everywhere all the time. Media, Judges, intellectuals, tourism sector, police of ficers, professionals, academia and workers has all been alienated one way or anoth er either by violent actions, or by appointment of incompetent MBs in leading posi tions, or proposed laws of exclusion together with threats to all privet TV stations,\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reporters and private sector big companies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Morsi government has succeeded to generate this ill-advised militancy single\u00a0 handed in only few months. He broke promises to seek consensus with secular and\u00a0 opposition forces. After forcing through the constitution which divided the country,\u00a0 he tried nonstop to impose his control over the judiciary, media and civil society\u00a0 groups. MBs also have devised laws that would tilt future elections in its favor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps more significantly, MBs government has infuriated average Egyptians with\u00a0 its poor management. Cities were plagued with power outages and fuel shortages, in flation and unemployment were growing and investment was dormant. It was the\u00a0 Brothers\u2019 complacency, that alienated their revolutionary allies and, more important,\u00a0 the majority of Egyptian people.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think Egyptian military had hoped to relieve itself of the burden of everyday gover nance in order to focus on more pressing concerns: rebuilding its capacity as a com bat force; diversifying its sources of hardware beyond the US; demilitarizing Sinai;\u00a0 and finding ways to project its power in the region. They expected the MBs to pacify\u00a0 the street. But the Brothers proved to be the worst sort of negotiator: unprincipled and\u00a0 incompetent. None of the three contenders in Egypt\u2019s post-revolt political sphere was\u00a0 strong enough to rule alone: the old regime was resented; the Islamists were inexperi enced; and the activists were clueless.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alliances were needed to break the deadlock. Because the Brothers controlled the ex ecutive and the legislature, the ball was in their court. For months, people put their\u00a0 lives on hold, wondering when and how the stalemate would come to an end. But the\u00a0 Brothers were unwilling to compromise. Their plan was to win over the agents of co ercion, but they failed to see that their unwillingness to change would drive their po litical opponents into a tactical alliance against them, and that such an alliance would\u00a0 force the military to revise its stance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Position of the MBs readiness to give up North of Sini, south of Egypt at Hallaieb, to\u00a0 secure themselves were two examples of what armed forces would not tolerate. That\u00a0 was parallel to changing , and expelling Moshir Tantawy and his second man without\u00a0 consultation with military council.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">General Commander Sisi after holding office ( in my opinion as transient commander\u00a0 before MBs taking their next action by appointing in this position one of them) of fered to broker an agreement,between Morsi and the people, but the Brothers flexed\u00a0 their muscles, deploying armed supporters to clear the anti-Islamist sit-in around the\u00a0 presidential palace in December 2012, killing and torturing dozens in the process (of\u00a0 all the court cases faced by Morsi and his aides, this is the one I believe that poses\u00a0 the biggest danger to them). As tensions in the country grew, a body of Rebellions\u00a0 (tamarod) called on the people to take to the streets on 30<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, June 2013 to force early\u00a0 elections or referendum about MBs president to complete his presidency or not.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The campaign won the support of every one ,all non-MBs powers, and revolutionary\u00a0 alike. There was an attempt to exclude groups previously considered part of the old\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">regime from the movement, but the revolutionaries couldn\u2019t build a solid enough\u00a0 front on their own, and finally decided that their best option was to side with every\u00a0 one, including what is considered old regime . Trading their revolutionary aspirations\u00a0 for a modest reform agenda seemed better than allowing an Islamist regime to remain\u00a0 in charge.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet the Brothers\u2019 adversaries would not have been able to field enough foot soldiers\u00a0 to ensure the army\u2019s co-operation had the masses abstained. 2013 summer\u2019s popular\u00a0 outburst was historically unprecedented. Millions took to the streets, not once, but\u00a0 three times in the space of a month: to rebel against MBs on 30 June, to celebrate his\u00a0 overthrow on 3 July, and to express their defiance of MBs violence on 26 July.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even if anyone agree with the MBs allegations that some of the protesters were paid\u00a0 by the old regime, and that others were persuaded to get involved by the anti-Islamist\u00a0 media yet they cannot deny that six decades of political bribes and state propaganda\u00a0 never brought out a fraction of that number: Mubarak couldn\u2019t get more than a hun\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dred thousand supporters onto the streets either at the height of his power or in the\u00a0 moment of his final desperation; and demonstrations on behalf of the old regime dur ing the 18 months between Mubarak\u2019s downfall and Morsi\u2019s election barely mustered\u00a0 a few thousand. The reality is that the Islamists alone provoked this unsurpassed pop ular eruption: the Brothers\u2019 dismal performance in government is what ultimately\u00a0 convinced even the most passive of citizens \u2013 the so-called \u2018sofa party\u2019 \u2013 to leave the\u00a0 comfort of their homes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps the Brothers underestimated the electorate. People would still vote for us,\u00a0 they boasted, even if we nominated a dead dog. It wasn\u2019t exactly flattering. Stubborn\u00a0 Mubarak, was wise enough to grasp that he had to make concessions to gain popular\u00a0 support at his time. In each of the three speeches Mubarak delivered during the revolt\u00a0 of 2011, he gave significant ground. First he dismissed the cabinet, then the leader\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ship of the ruling party, he brought in an acceptable face to opposition to replace his\u00a0 old guards to lead NDP, he dissolved the infamous Policy Committee and formed a\u00a0 committee to purge the constitution of unpopular clauses; and then he pledged that\u00a0 neither he nor his son would run in the presidential elections, which were only nine\u00a0 months away.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Morsi, in contrast, wouldn\u2019t even reshuffle his cabinet or reinforce his legitimacy\u00a0 with a popular referendum. Warned of looming rebellion, he described his opponents\u00a0 as a handful of old regime scoundrels, and delivered an incredible two and a half hour\u00a0 speech ridiculing his enemies by name and laughing repeatedly at his own jokes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I tweeted after his two speeches saying&#8221;&#8221; @HossamBadrawi: The president&#8217;s speech\u00a0 is unbelievable ,he proposes either the Moslem brotherhood in power or blood\u00a0 shed.&#8221;&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;@HossamBadrawi: When 30 millions make their request clear, when judges,media,\u00a0 artists, , professionals and police are supporting,who dares to call it a coup&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After being shown helicopter-recorded footage of the millions demonstrating against\u00a0 him, he maintained that this \u2018Photoshop revolution\u2019 actually involved no more than a\u00a0 few thousand people. In a second record-breaking speech (as it turned out, his last),\u00a0 he shook his fist repeatedly, and insisted he was Egypt\u2019s legitimate leader 98 times in\u00a0 45 minutes. What his audience saw was not the arrogance of power but the vanity of\u00a0 a fool.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This was a historic uncoupling of Islam and Islamism in the Muslim popular psyche.\u00a0 There were two reasons for it, one secular, and the other religious. As citizens, people\u00a0 were appalled by the Brothers\u2019 incompetence in government; and as Muslims, they\u00a0 were outraged by the use of their religion to explain away this incompetence.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Brothers made people no longer saw them as god-fearing underdogs striving for\u00a0 power so that they could implement Islam, but as another set of corrupt politicians\u00a0 using Islam to justify themselves. They also detected a darker, more evil side to the\u00a0 Morsi presidency. People also noted the frequent denunciation of the government\u2019s\u00a0 critics as enemies of Islam; the creation of armed groups to monitor public morality;\u00a0 the declaration of a Jihad against Shiites; the release of thousands of militants by\u00a0 presidential amnesty (to be available to terrorize opponents when needed); and the\u00a0 subsequent declaration of an Islamist mini-emirate at the heart of Sinai.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the eve of the June uprising 2013 , Alekhwan set up camp outside the Rabaa al Adawiya mosque in Cairo and stayed there for forty nights. People would drop by to\u00a0 have a look and to hear what was being said. What they witnessed stiffened their will\u00a0 to rebel. They saw Al-Qaida banners at every corner; heard that the al-Qaida leader,\u00a0 the Egyptian medic Ayman al-Zawahri, was making terrorist threats on the Brothers\u2019\u00a0 behalf; and listened to speeches rallying militants from around the globe, encouraging\u00a0 them to blow themselves up in public squares. Opponents were collectively excom municated, and threatened with eternal damnation; David\u2019s battle with Goliath was\u00a0 invoked as were the Prophet\u2019s victories over infidels and hypocrites. Any numbers of\u00a0 grandiose claims were made: that the Archangel Gabriel prayed among the Brothers\u00a0 and Prophet Mohamed prayed behind him!!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is why most Egyptians accepted the interim government\u2019s designation of the\u00a0 Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization in December 2013. Everyone knows\u00a0 that the actual perpetrators of violence are the Brothers\u2019 unruly allies: al-Qaida-style\u00a0 groups such as Ansar beit al-Maqdis and Al-Jama\u2019a al-Islamiya. But by turning a po\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">litical clash into a fully-fledged religious war between Islam and its enemies, the\u00a0 Brothers created a context for terror. In the eyes of their compatriots, they were ulti-<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mately responsible for every car bomb, suicide attack and assassination, as well as\u00a0 the ceaseless attacks on churches ,and museums.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the Brothers committed political suicide, the security apparatus took advantage.\u00a0 The country became locked in a vicious circle. Meanwhile Egyptians believed that\u00a0 Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, had choices and he sided with people. He could have stood up\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for Morsi, who had never challenged military privileges openly, and desperately\u00a0 courted the general\u2019s political protection. And if he had, the Islamists would have\u00a0 been in his debt for ever ( in theory)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0In my opinion Sisi and his officers must have realized that supporting the Brothers\u00a0 would entail massive repression, as the Brothers failures were bound to drive millions\u00a0 onto the streets, with or without the encouragement of any one soon. The country\u00a0 would be risking sliding into civil war. To repress the people on behalf of the Broth ers would be to identify with Islamist despotisms which will rule for decades. Inter vention on the side of \u2018the people\u2019 seemed the most efficient way to minimize the\u00a0 threat to national security. Better to be accused of plotting a coup than be seen as im potent or in league with fascists, and added to this MBs are known for political dis honesty.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sisi had the support of the entire armed forces, not just a politicized junta, and was\u00a0 soon able to prove it even though the Brothers moved quickly to win over the lower\u00a0 ranks after Morsi was deposed and claimed to have many new recruits. Rumors circu lated about foreign governments making generous offers to any senior officer willing\u00a0 to dislodge Sisi. In spite of that, Sisi decided to deploy officers and soldiers to protect\u00a0 the demonstrations , he personally called for on 26 July. Evidently, he wasn\u2019t worried\u00a0 that some of his men might not come back: that they would join forces with the Is lamists or march back to the Defence Ministry to arrest him. In the event, not a single\u00a0 soldier defected. At the end of January, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces\u00a0 (Scaf) agreed to release Sisi so that he could run for the presidency.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 14 January 2014 referendum on a new constitution was approved by 98 per cent\u00a0 of those who voted on a turnout of 38 per cent of registered voters; in 2012, MBs\u00a0 constitution was approved by 64 per cent on a 33 per cent turnout.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet to many politician Sisi has never disclosed his plan for the country\u2019s future \u2013 as suming he has one. He projects himself as a new Nasser, but his idol had vast re sources thanks to the land he confiscated from the rich, the foreign companies he na tionalized, the absence of Parliament in early years of his rule and the Soviet Union\u00a0 support. Nothing like this is available to Sisi. Since the late 1970s, Egypt\u2019s economy\u00a0 has come under the control of open market regulations and privet sector who employ\u00a0 more than 14 million Egyptians , yet able to liquidate their investments and move\u00a0 their funds offshore at the first sign of trouble. Correlation with Naser and the social ist sixties does not really help in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the other hand the pockets of Egypt\u2019s supporters in the Gulf are not as deep as\u00a0 those of Communist Russia during the Cold War. Partnership with Egypt\u2019s capitalists\u00a0 in a US-style military-industrial complex might prove useful to the armed forces, but\u00a0 it won\u2019t bring social justice any closer. What will happen when those who currently\u00a0 believe that Sisi\u2019s presidency is the answer to their problems \u2013 to unemployment,\u00a0 poverty, inadequate healthcare, under-funded education, poor public transportations ,\u00a0 slums, and all the rest \u2013 come to realize that the country\u2019s structural problems are be yond his capacity alone to solve? And how will Sisi react if his popularity begins to\u00a0 crumble? Those are the questions that should be asked now.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moslem brotherhood wanted to change the identity of Egypt and they failed.\u00a0 Thanks to the genetic make up of the Egyptian people who lived in peace with them selves, with no differentiation between copts and moslems or Sonnies and Shiite for\u00a0 years. In one year, only one year Egyptians rejected the religious extremism and\u00a0 stopped the fiction in the region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My family , and most of my friends, people i come across are supporting the man , as\u00a0 the savior of Egypt from the darkness of political religious extremism and , yes he is ,\u00a0 yet in my opinion , as experienced politicians and expert of development we should\u00a0 help him define his way and give him alternatives to a shaky situation with patience\u00a0 but also with time limit. However he should, on the other hand be ready to listen and\u00a0 accommodate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0I believe Some hard decisions should have been taken by the transient current gov ernment related to difficult economic situation , even unpopular ones, to ease for\u00a0 coming elected government to move faster and more efficient . Unfortunately this did\u00a0 not happen.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In all cases , under any circumstances the zone of freedom and tolerance should not\u00a0 be allowed to shrink, and this should be a conscious decision not to be left to dynam ics of events , but to leadership direction.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This last statement comes as a response to the feelings i expressed at the beginning\u00a0 of this article when i was invited to a TV talk show about the current political situa tion\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hossam Badrawi\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The story of Egypt\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">February 2014\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Part of the story of Egypt in 3years\u00a0 \u00a0By Hossam Badrawi\u00a0 \u00a0February 2014\u00a0 When i received an invitation from 3 different anchors of popular talk shows in the last 2 weeks to\u00a0 share my views about what is currently happening in Egypt and the prospects of the future, i found\u00a0 myself spontaneously hesitating to accept &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,16,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-articles","category-articles-by-dr-badrawi","category-translated-articles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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