Sunday, July 15, 2012


Obama and Clinton Tactics for Egypt

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Alexandria Ramleh Beach Panorama (Nicopolis, AD 30)

Rafik Baladi, July 15, 2012: Secretary of State Hilary Clinton visited Egypt, yesterday, on July 14, 2010, allegedly because she cared about the move towards democratic transition that, somehow, claimed that all Egyptian parliamentary and presidential polls favoured the Muslim Brotherhood and other extreme Muslim players (such as the Salafists). She met the new “…democratically elected Egyptian President, Mohamed Morsi” for serious talks “… in favour of Egypt”. She was received with open arms by many advocates of the new party and was resisted by some rotten tomatoes, potatoes and a few shoes in Alexandria by demonstrators that condemned both the newly declared romantic business friendship between USA and the allegedly “…democratically elected new party and parliament”. These demonstrators, also, condemned the actions and threats of this party (and its advocates) that was repeatedly reported to have assaulted hundreds of Egyptians in Tahrir Square in Cairo including the Christians of the Alexandria 2010 church massacre,those of the Egyptians of the Cairo Maspero massacre and elsewhere in Egypt, let alone (the democratically elected party's) threats to demolish cultural heritage sites (amongst others and resorting to violence (slaughter), in the event it did not win power.

And this is the question! Today, Sunday, July 15, 2012, I was watching CNN News-Hour around 6.15PM Eastern meantime; and I saw an interesting exchange of ideas between the CNN news anchor (a smiling lady with a blue necklace, whose name I don't not know and am not interested to know... Possibly, Erin Burnett) and the reporter (probably in Egypt) and her name is Elise Labott (I hope I am spelling her name right; although I don’t care). Both ladies mentioned statements like “… lack of respect to the Senator; the Egyptians don’t understand that this visit was meant to enforce the new allegedly democratic transition, amongst others”. And I did not care for their incomprehensive analysis because it was narrow and failed to mention that the horror of the Alexandria’s demonstrations was not because it lacked respect or because of incompetence.  

It was far more than that! I found it condescending, judgemental and non-factual. Here are the reasons. The majority if not 80% of Egyptians are haunted by the memories of USA involvement with Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq and how Mujahedeen, once helped by America, turned against America and the West. They (the Egyptians) are grieving the Alexandria church bombing of December 2010 and the threats by the new party, allegedly “…democratically elected” [politically imposed] with no public retribution by the Secretary of State and the President of USA, President Obama, to the suffering of both the vast Muslim Egyptian liberals (around thirty million) and the hurting Egyptian Christians, (Another twenty-five million according to the Egyptian Papal figures) and a further six and a half million Christians who fled their homeland to the west. To top it, more than half of the remaining twenty-eight million in favor of the [imposed] new ruling party is either misled and illiterate or an unrepresentative cluster of the polling samples. They can neither read nor comprehend what is being presented by all parties; let alone  how easily influenced they could be by fictitious promises for values and return to God.

And the American people did not have a chance to feel the pain and suffering of liberal Muslim and Christian Egyptians (a good sixty-five million) because the American media coverage did not stretch its coverage to include the recent suffering of Egyptians and Egyptian Christians nor that of the narrow-mindedness of a few who use religion to entice fanatics at the detriment of centuries of heritage and thousand of lives, churches and cultural sites of Egypt. To top it, Secretary Clinton (and others) stood in Tahrir Square in Cairo, in early 2011 and witnessed the killing of Egyptians but applauded the revolution… so maybe they can tolerate some tomatoes and potatoes.


Alexandria Ramleh Beach Panorama (Nicopolis, AD 30)

Secretary Clinton and President Obama, I plead you not to undermine the Egyptians or to intervene to help them understand; Egypt is seven thousand years old and character is engraved in its people, their roots and branches. Egyptians have suffered a lot because of such extremist thought, let alone colonialism and the tripartite aggression of 1956 with USA standing still (had it not been for the Hon. Lester B. Pearson of Canada who saved a catastrophe; God bless his soul). Egyptians love Americans and they count on your leadership. It doesn't take much to open your hearts. Let us not anger God; the halls of Egyptian martyrs are far too crowded; and the intellectually curious women of Egypt are far to eager to flourish, than to condone this undemocratically elected narrow minded party which you endorse and support. How can you do this to your friends... really? You have just compromised millions of Egyptian Christians and Egyptian Muslim liberals by condoning the oppressors; you handed the grieving Egyptians to their assailers! And this new party, together with its worldwide allies (a number of which are in the Middle East) is but an ax about to break the fragile social cohesion of the majority of Egyptians who respect each other's faiths. As if demolishing dictatorship was truly, only, attributable to the unconstitutional impeaching of President Mubarak and not the unconstitutionally forcing of his substitute, the threats of his party or the silence of its worldwide partners!

And, oh, world media, God bless you; please stretch your vision… Maybe you can make a difference and put an end to unwanted religious hate and uncontrollable slaughtering of Egyptians (of all faiths) and heritage! They have burnt thousands of Egyptian churches across the centuries, and promised to do so, again, in some cities (though with no declared intentions of killing), let alone abolishing freedom of thought and destruction of heritage and cultural and scientific Egyptian relics.

If the Secretary of State and the present President of USA are proven to be aware of the Egyptian suffering while continuing to condone this imposed party, they may want to cede governing the great and kind people of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and John F. Kennedy to a new capable administration. It they did not know about it, it is grave! Very grave! Personally, let alone the “disrespectful” rotten tomatoes and potatoes, I want to apologize to the families of the bereaved Egyptians on behalf of Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama because they have failed to court you in your grief and chosen to add insults to your injuries, rather than taking a stand! 

...I pray for you, oh casualties of cultural, religious hate and world corporate greed.

Rafik Baladi

Jasmines from Egypt Branches Forever  (Please read my novel)

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