Mohamed Morsi Won't be Missed
January 30, 2014
(left, Mohamed Morsi)A Palestinian reader, BD, says Mohamed Morsi
supported the Islamist overthrow of Assad.
Discussing Hamas, BD shows how political alignments
in the Middle East are constantly shifting.
by BD
(henrymakow.com)
BD is a Sunni Palestinian residing in the Middle East. He works in financial reporting and analysis
A couple of fundamental considerations have been omitted in the analysis by "Nancy". But before I begin, let me say that I'm no fan of Abdel-Fatah Sisi. I despise Sisi and the arrogant, rabid, backward nationalism that is being promoted in Egypt. I have a sense, as alluded in the article, that the Egyptian people are being led like sheep into a trap. Just a hunch.
Anyways, let me get to the point. The author cites Kevin Barrett who describes Morsi's leadership as relatively "cautious" and "benign". Mr.Barrett must have missed Morsi's speech in a stadium surrounded by his fanatical followers whereby he called for "Jihad" against Syria.
The spectacle was repulsive; a stadium of fanatical Islamists cheering on what they perceived to be the beginning of further intervention into the bloody US-Turkish-Saudi-Qatari financed and supported war in Syria.
Needless to say, Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood (MB) is heavily supported by the rich tiny state of Qatar - one of Israel's best friends in the Persian Gulf and the host of America's largest air base in the region AND host of the Muslim Brotherhood TV news mouthpiece Al-Jazeera - in addition to being one of the prime belligerent parties in the war to topple the Syrian government of Bashar Assad.
Furthermore, it's probably true that Sisi increased the closure of smuggling tunnels to Gaza - a lifeline for that poor embargoed territory - and justified it by linking Egypt's 'terrorism' problems to Hamas. I don't know how much truth there is to this, but the real tragedy is in the fact that Morsi never actually significantly eased the embargo on Gaza. In fact, under his reign, for the first time Gaza tunnels were flooded with sewage water - something that apparently even Hosni Mubarak had not done . Morsi supporters like to blame the Egyptian military and claim Morsi is innocent. However I don't recall Morsi publicly distancing himself or condemning the military for the flood of Gaza's tunnels.
HAMAS
Hamas for its part is well-known to have MB roots, but the political positions they took during Morsi's time were reckless and stupid in my opinion.
At the behest of Hamas' corrupt and Qatari-bought political bureau Chief Khaled Mishaal, left, Hamas was pressured to lean towards the Qatari-Egypt MB axis and to drift away from Iranian and Syrian arming and financing and more importantly to publicly condemn Bashar Assad's regime. Why was this a reckless political position? Because Syria was the only state that would host Khaled Meshaal when he was exiled from Jordan and snubbed by the Arab (and entire) world. Because Syria and Iran were the only states to arm and finance Hamas (and other Palestinian factions) when they were fighting Israel and when they had been left to their fate and ignored by the Arab (and entire) world. Because the Qatari-MB-Zio axis sought to remove a Sunni ally from the Axis constituting Syria (who's leadership is led by Alawites, a Shia offshoot sect), Shia Hizballah and Shia Iran so that they can continue to frame the Syria war as one of Sunnis vs. Shias.
COVERT ARAB COOPERATION WITH ZIONITED STATES
What's the relevance of the previous paragraph? To give some background and context! Given the unreliability and subservience of most of the Arab states and their long history of overt or covert cooperation with Israel and the US to the detriment to the people of the region, it boggles the mind that Hamas would drift away from the Syria-Iran-Axis that had been arming and financing various Palestinian factions and go jump onto the Zionist Arab bandwagon (there was some internal opposition to this move from Hamas' military wing by the way).
But once Hamas began disconnecting from Syria-Iran-Hizballah, it became clear that they saw a potentially strong ally with a Morsi and MB controlled Egypt. They fell for the trap. As 'terrorist' attacks increased in Egypt and the Sinai peninsula and as anti-Morsi opposition grew, culminating in his overthrow, the Egyptian Army and media increased their anti-Gaza and anti-Palestinian campaign (masked as anti-terrorism and as anti-Hamas). The link to Morsi and the MB was drawn and was the perfect setting to vilify Hamas, and then to connect them to the various terrorist attacks occurring in Egypt. As usual, the real target and the ultimate losers from this outcome are the Palestinian people - especially those residing in Gaza. Anyone in Egypt that opposes the campaign to close the smuggling tunnels in Gaza now will be dismissed and labeled as an MB supporter.
So it seems to me that all the actors involved, the MB, Morsi, Sisi, Mishaal, the Egyptian Military, and Hamas ultimately worked together to bring us to this dismal turn of events.
And, oh, irony of ironies, it seems that since Morsi's ouster, Hamas has been making overtures to Iran and seeking to repair the ties that had been strained due to the previously mentioned events.
And, the mother of all ironies, it was the MB and Morsi who appointed Abdel-Fatah Sisi - who not so long ago was widely considered to be an MB darling and sympathizer!
What a sick joke politics are!
I want to thank you for filling in some of the blanks to the background of the situation in Egypt. I agree with most of what you say and I never pretended to politically analyze the situation. What I wrote was basically an email from me to Henry expressing my concerns about the disturbing situation here. I agree with you that the MB stance was far from ideal and many of us were very disturbed by stadium event and his position regarding the IMF loan (as mentioned by Deadeye Dick) was a red light for me.
My husband always criticized that the Morsi government wasn't very inclusive of those from other ideologies. However, as expressed in the cartoon, these things didn't directly or immediately harm anyone in the country but rather caused dissatisfaction which gave the army the excuse to step in. Many are of the opinion if the democratic process was left to work, the Muslim Brotherhood's influence would have been greatly curbed once the Parliamentary elections would have taken place and there were mechanisms in place for early removal of the President. Instead we got a bloody coup and a repression of the likes which I have never seen in the years that I have lived in Egypt.
Many of us were very sad the day we had to choose between the Brotherhood candidate, Morsi, and the old regime, Shafiq. Some suspect it may have been a set up, Morsi got the majority because he was seen by most as the lesser of two evils. Egyptians knew that the return of the old regime will result in much more repression than experienced under Mobarek. Well, we are experiencing this now in such an Orwellian way.
There is a joke going around that now Egyptians pray 6 times a day to include the funeral prayer. The sad thing is that they are now joining their Palestinian, Syrian and Iraqi brethren in the same plight. The tragic thing is that they are pitting brother against brother, man against wife, mother against son. Now it is not uncommon to hear of a mother turning her son to the police for being a member of the 6th April movement or a man turning in his wife for being a Rabaa protest sympathizer (translate as MB terrorist). Yesterday a cleric was recorded on a TV show saying that if you suspect that your spouse is a MB supporter you should get a divorce quick!
I think your hunch is right BD, the Egyptian people have been led like a sheep into a trap. And what better way than to divide and conquer.
FIRST COMMENT FROM DEADEYE DICK-
I agree completely with BD's analysis here. It should also be mentioned that one of Morsi's first acts was to accept a $4.8 billion loan from the IMF. This goes unmentioned by your Cairo correspondent and wannabe Muslim Kevin Barrett, who are too busy looking for Jews under every rock to put Sisi in context.
At issue in the Middle East is on one hand the decades old fight for "Pan Arabism" advanced by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser (some say Sisi's role model, the victor of the Suez crisis and one time president of the United Arab Republic that united Syria and Egypt) - and on the other hand the "Bernard Lewis Plan" for bankers and cartels to turn the middle east into a series of pathetic micro- states (maps are available online) too weak to interfere with western control of oil and access to oceanic and land transport between Europe and Asia.
Get a map of the middle east - why is Lebanon carved out of Syria? Why is Israel so desperate to control Gaza? Why is Turkey belligerent against Syria? This is geo-strategic warfare by cartels against nations, and the proof is in economic action, not whether Sisi's uncle secretly owned a yarmulke.
Pan Arabism today would be represented by Assad's Syria, Nasrallah's Hezbollah, Iran (not Arabic, but a key patron of both), and formerly by Gaddafi's Libya and Hussein's Iraq. What do they all have in common? National protections and benefits for common people. Before Syria and Libya were besieged, they both enjoyed a national bank, protections from all imports outside these "pan- Arab" partners, generous subsidies for bread, oil, housing and education. Assad had been openly promoting his "4 seas strategy" for Syria to be a nexus for pipelines and transportation, much to the advantage of Russia and China, and the disadvantage of ExxonMobil, et al.
The well-founded fear of Sisi is that he will re-strengthen this coalition and be a friend toward Syria and Lebanon.
L said (February 1, 2014):
According to the words of Israel Shahak, Israel could not tolerate an Islamic nation which doesn't collaborate with them, as was the case of Morsi; therefore he had to go...This is the power of Zionism;
The next to go will be Karsai, since he dared to speak the truth about US drone attacks...
Why do you think Saudi Arabia and Jordan haven't had any 'uprisings'? Because they are puppets to the Zionist state.
The main enemy is always Zionism, not Islam.