Thousands headed to the streets allegedly to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 6 October War by the orders of the interim president , army , Muslim brotherhood , the Church , parties to the end of that to get the party on or accurately to get on with their own political agendas.
None of them tried to learn from the political lessons Egypt learned in a very expensive in 6 years of war.
I am afraid we are repeating the mistakes we have committed in 1967 and forgot all the reasons on why we made it in 1973.
Let’s start with the media , we got the same Ultra-hypocrite lying propaganda machine of 1967 working effectively in 1973 !! Joseph Goebbels would be impressed by the amount of propaganda this nation has produced whether in 1967 or in 2013 to be honest !!!
When I look to the headlines of the newspapers on October 7 , 1973 and the headlines of the early editions of the newspapers on June 6, 1967 I see that someone had learned a tough lesson. Do you know that people did not believe the Egyptian radio and TV news on October 6,1973 and had to hear the news from Israeli radio Arabic service as well Monte Carlo Arabic radio service !? Do you know that for 6 years Israel seized this to send its poison propaganda in its radio service !?
Now moving to how people are insisting to involve the army in politics. Of course the army’s commandership denies that it is involving in politics despite they are involved in politics whether you deny or not.
I will not say anything in this point. In fact,I quote will Late Field Marshal Abdel Ghanay El Gamasy , one of the military men in Egypt that earned the respect of his enemies before his supporters.
Making the army a state above the accountability in the state was the reason on why we were defeated in 1967. If there was a true accountability for the army and its commanders in 1956 or after Yemen war , if there was a true accountability and reports to the parliament we would have spared our country and the Arab world a defeat we suffer its complications up till now.
Of course needless to say that in 1967 there was no true democracy or parliamentary accountability but let's remember we had an opportunity to have democracy through the ill fated 1954 constitution. The army is now respecting special status in the constitution to the level that it can not be questioned about any thing.
The pro-army says that the army wanted to protect itself from presidents with bad political agendas but the question here what if we had incompetent army commanders with their own political agenda like for instance Abdel Hakim Amar. For God sake we are speaking about humans !!
Turning the president in to a holy idol that does not make a mistake , that can not be questioned or criticized is another reason on why we had a disaster in 1967. Do I need to talk on how Nasser was turned in to a false God !? Do I need to speak on how in 2013 the media is turning general Abdel Fatah El Sisi in to another Nasser. No president had that status of an Egyptian idol pharaoh like Nasser and I am afraid El Sisi is doing it again.
Ultra-Nationalism made the Egyptians blind leading them to their defeat in 1967. With our arrogance the media and the regime made the Egyptians including army soldiers and officers that Egypt would erase Israel and kick the Americans' asses because we were smarter than anyone else. In 1973 the political and army commandership were realistic and dealt with the matter accordingly.
I write this and all what I think about the martyrs of the 1973 and before them the martyrs of 1967 as well feeling sad that after 40 years we have failed to learn our lessons. Our foolish arrogance and ignorance as well do not allow us to read from our past and to learn from our mistake. Our foolish arrogance and ignorance also do no not allow to learn from other countries’ experiences and history because you know we are the greatest and smartest !!
None of them tried to learn from the political lessons Egypt learned in a very expensive in 6 years of war.
I am afraid we are repeating the mistakes we have committed in 1967 and forgot all the reasons on why we made it in 1973.
Let’s start with the media , we got the same Ultra-hypocrite lying propaganda machine of 1967 working effectively in 1973 !! Joseph Goebbels would be impressed by the amount of propaganda this nation has produced whether in 1967 or in 2013 to be honest !!!
When I look to the headlines of the newspapers on October 7 , 1973 and the headlines of the early editions of the newspapers on June 6, 1967 I see that someone had learned a tough lesson. Do you know that people did not believe the Egyptian radio and TV news on October 6,1973 and had to hear the news from Israeli radio Arabic service as well Monte Carlo Arabic radio service !? Do you know that for 6 years Israel seized this to send its poison propaganda in its radio service !?
Now moving to how people are insisting to involve the army in politics. Of course the army’s commandership denies that it is involving in politics despite they are involved in politics whether you deny or not.
I will not say anything in this point. In fact,I quote will Late Field Marshal Abdel Ghanay El Gamasy , one of the military men in Egypt that earned the respect of his enemies before his supporters.
The military man has never been good for politics ever. We were defeated in 1967 because the army men were busy with the games of politics, and thus they could not find anything to present in the war field.I will not say more in this particular point except that the
Making the army a state above the accountability in the state was the reason on why we were defeated in 1967. If there was a true accountability for the army and its commanders in 1956 or after Yemen war , if there was a true accountability and reports to the parliament we would have spared our country and the Arab world a defeat we suffer its complications up till now.
Of course needless to say that in 1967 there was no true democracy or parliamentary accountability but let's remember we had an opportunity to have democracy through the ill fated 1954 constitution. The army is now respecting special status in the constitution to the level that it can not be questioned about any thing.
The pro-army says that the army wanted to protect itself from presidents with bad political agendas but the question here what if we had incompetent army commanders with their own political agenda like for instance Abdel Hakim Amar. For God sake we are speaking about humans !!
Turning the president in to a holy idol that does not make a mistake , that can not be questioned or criticized is another reason on why we had a disaster in 1967. Do I need to talk on how Nasser was turned in to a false God !? Do I need to speak on how in 2013 the media is turning general Abdel Fatah El Sisi in to another Nasser. No president had that status of an Egyptian idol pharaoh like Nasser and I am afraid El Sisi is doing it again.
Ultra-Nationalism made the Egyptians blind leading them to their defeat in 1967. With our arrogance the media and the regime made the Egyptians including army soldiers and officers that Egypt would erase Israel and kick the Americans' asses because we were smarter than anyone else. In 1973 the political and army commandership were realistic and dealt with the matter accordingly.
I write this and all what I think about the martyrs of the 1973 and before them the martyrs of 1967 as well feeling sad that after 40 years we have failed to learn our lessons. Our foolish arrogance and ignorance as well do not allow us to read from our past and to learn from our mistake. Our foolish arrogance and ignorance also do no not allow to learn from other countries’ experiences and history because you know we are the greatest and smartest !!
