We thought that the biggest dangers on the revolution is the old ex-Mubarak regime or the foreign powers that do not want Egypt to advance and restore its position or even those radical powers in the country that only care for their interests . We put a list by all our enemies and forget our biggest enemy is our stupidity ,we are own worst enemies.
Friday April 8th started wonderfully and it ended by a disaster ,a real disaster that is jeopardizing the whole revolution and our whole future actually. We are responsible for this disaster whether SAFC or activists or media.
You probably know that the army ended violently that sit in made by those alleged defected army officers and the activists that supported them. You probably know that the army used excessive force that ended officially in killing 1 person and injuring 71 according the ministry of health. You probably know or may not know that all people are worried now in Egypt from further clashes between us and the army especially the angry youth. Up till now there is a lot of contradicting stories and numbers , what I have mentioned above is the thing I am sure of.
I will start first with the SAFC and its stupid decisions. The SAFC’s decision process speed is too slow for a revolution that achieved a lot in 18 days , too slow for real time media that can turn things up side down in a day . The SAFC is acting in an army way by nature despite now it is playing politics. Old generals deal with younger generations sometimes from parenthood perspective and other times from commandership perspective. I explained my general views regarding the council here. The army is using the curfew law to enforce their side and to defend their actions and I think throughout the day they knew the defected officers were using the revolutionary feelings to get protection. The defected officers were using the civilians as human shields and unfortunately they did turn in to human shields. How could not the army pay attention to this !!?
Why did not the army arrest those defected officers earlier !!? Do not tell me that the army was afraid from media coverage and public reaction !!? Arresting those defected officers earlier at 6 PM for instance would not have not caused such fuss , in fact now it has become an international media circus. The decision to use excusive force regardless of disastrous results is politically stupid.
The SAFC made thing worse when it published this statement regarding the incident at 5.34 AM Cairo Local time
That first FB statement could have played important role in not making things worse than they were already. It was short and was written badly to the level that many Facebookers , tweeps and activists doubted its truth. The 34th MSG. states the SAFC has ordered the arrest of Egyptian businessman and NDP remnant Ibrahim Kamel and his office manager along with some of his followers. The council accused them of sending thugs and elements that turned the people against the army in Tahrir. The statement claims that Kamel’s men ,the remnants of NDP were terrorizing the public during the curfew hours , the thing which led the army use force.
Later the SACF had a press conference that was not aired live but rather edited. The press conference included a report that showed a clear communication problem at the SAFC. The official report announced at the press conference was even worse accusing the protesters at Tahrir last night to be from the counter revolution and that there were threats at the American and Israeli embassies making it hard from the army. The generals denied that the army used live ammunition as the units that stormed the square were unarmed . They underestimated the video clips that took the world by storm today saying that they showed nothing incriminating the army units !! Another stupid decision in time to crisis !!
The PR policies of the army should be changed completely , we are no longer in time of Mubarak so the council has to realize that. General Ismail Etman should realize that he is no longer in time of Mubarak with all due respect to him.
Transparency is what we actually need from the council now more than ever , transparency and accountability are what we seek and we need now to rebuild this trust between the people and the army.
When you have a situation like that involved accusations to the army and what was considered by many as a coup attempt you do not address in this first in a Facebook short statement especially when there is blood and there are civilian casualties. If Ibrahim Kamel is involved in this attempt to destabilize the country in this way , why not to make a press conference and show all the evidences that incriminate him in this incident to the whole world.
Call me naive but knowing the level and importance of Kamel in time of Mubarak , I will not find some sort of fiction that he would be involved in something like that. Th businessmen class in Egypt during the Mubarak era especially that A++++ class close to Mubarak himself is too damn dangerous to level you can’t imagine. Of course the fact that Kamel despite his danger has been free till today makes the SAFC in very bad position. Already I wonder if he is in Egypt after all !!
The Egyptian army reputation is already in deep trouble worldwide because of their late reaction and lack of transparency and accountability regarding the attacks of the military police against civilians including the aggression on female protesters and students at Cairo university. Again they have to realize that they are not longer working in the battlefield but rather in the civilian world. The SAFC should learn from its previous mistakes and correct its ways , it should not rely on the fact that the people will take its side over the revolution.
Despite the sensitivity of the topic , the Egyptian media is still scared from covering the matter as it should. If you cover neutrally as you should in a professional way , you will save the day actually. Hiding the truth in this critical times give a golden opportunity to the enemies of the revolution of spreading their lies. There was no journalist interested in knowing the details of those defected officers and who they were or how many people were really injured and killed.
There is still this psychological barrier between the journalists and covering army related issues , ok but I am pretty amazed that those defected officers were not connected by the journalists even for curiosity. The Egyptian national TV is still proving that it has got a lot of time to become the Egyptian people’s TV.
Now moving to the activists and defected army officers whom exactly we do not know their full names or even how many they were. We got contradicting stories in a strange way. Some claimed 3 of them were killed while when I was following the matter in twitter live , I read that 3 of them escaped. The army denied that any of them were killed. Again contradiction with emotional talks makes things worse.
From the beginning as far as I know there were no plans for sit in when the trial Friday was planned. The sit in was brought up by those officers whom vowed not to leave except when their demands were met. Their main demand was forcing the SACF to step down. I hope that our radical activists wake up from their revolutionaries dreams and remember that this is a coup according to all sorts laws and common around the globe. From the start these officers should not have came and participated in the protest in their uniforms. This is a crime , a sign of mutiny all over the world for God sake.
I will not compare this to Ahmed Shoman incident because there is a huge change in time , already I wonder where these officers were at that time !! I know the radical revolutionary activists will not like this but this is the army. Many people in Egypt consider it the last standing organization if it goes down , then it is not the end of revolution but the beginning of real chaos in Egypt. The corruption in army will not be solved like the corruption in the ministry of interior nor the army is the state security buildings we can storm.
Now I am very distributed by some tweeps and activists who made from these unknown officers heroes without knowing anything of them to the level of accusing the rest of the Egyptian officers and soldiers of being cowards and traitors. You want to attack the SAFC , attack it from here to eternity but you do not insult the officers of the army and accuse of treason and dishonor, ironically those tweeps were wondering where the army was when Gaza was bombarded from two days ago !!?
Unfortunately Some of these activists despite bragging of being in the streets all day have lost all the connection to the rest of the Egyptian people who will stand with the Egyptian army despite they know very well that it suffers from corruption just like any other institutions in the country. These activists do not know that they are jeopardizing the revolution by losing the Egyptian people in this way.
Of course these activists believe that the Egyptian people are too damn ignorant and passive as most of them voted for yes in the referendum not to mention most of them did not sleep at Tahrir square , thus they should not have the right to choose. They have the right to choose for millions of Egyptians and so you find now them boldly say the SAFC must step down and a presidential council takes over due to what happened yesterday !!!!!!!!!
I am sorry but last time I checked those activists said that they would accept the results of the first free democratic referendum whose results were crystal clear everybody. I did not choose a Presidential committee in the referendum and so did millions of Egyptians.
The activists have to be angry but their anger should not blind them from truth and reality. They should not forget our main goal which is not the SAFC currently. When we have a parliament , when we have elected president , we can open the files of the army during the Mubarak’s era as we want in the correct way.
Now regarding activists Nawara Negm has been under huge attack and fire because of her position from the defected officers despite she slammed the pathetic press conference of the SAFC. Due to the fact she did what she had promised and reported the defected officers to the MP whose answer was another question mark in that X-File , all people blame for last night attack. I hate to tell you that the army did not wait for Nawara Negm’s phone call to move like that , already the SAFC made it clear that it would not let anyone wearing a military uniform with no right in the country. She did not tell the army units at Tahrir to treat the protesters like that.
The SAFC has made terrible mistakes but Egyptian activists have turned in to their own worst enemies. The Egyptian activists do not want to play politics , they do not want to leave the Tahrir at the right time and return to it at the right time to deliver to get what they want.
Now to the reactions of the world and the political powers in Egypt.The Muslim brotherhood of course supports the SAFC’s statement and its members who participated at the yesterday’s protest said that they did not want the officers to get in to the podium with the uniforms.
Possible presidential candidate Mohamed ElBaradei was from the early public personalities who addressed the matter, he spoke about the importance of trust between people and the army and that dialogue was the only option.
Possible presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabhi condemned the attack and toughly describing it as a crime that expresses the old ex-regime policies. The man who said once that the army can a role like the Turkish army believes that the confidence between the people and the army depends only on the accountability. Strong words indeed but I wonder if the good intentions of Hamdeen Sahbi but I wonder if he is firing back at ElBaradei.
Egyptian businessman Ibrahim Kamel denied the allegations and claimed that the SAFC was meant another Ibrahim Kamel !! So the man is free and is giving statements to El Masry El Youm !!
A group of political powers gathered in the morning and issued a statement at press conference in an early move at the syndication of journalists and it started good and ended by fights. I found their statement was balanced considering it was made in a very short time. The statement warns the attempts to turn the people and the army against each are increasing rapidly especially we are getting closer from the prosecution of Mubarak’s inner circle.
Again I will be labeled by every name and every accusation in the diction because of what I see and I think. I do not care , at least one person was killed last night and the country is on the edge of the unknown.Shall we pass it !!? Well insh Allah we will. We changed a powerful 30 years old dictatorship in a peaceful revolution that has not finished yet , we are still have got many battles in our war with the previous regime to win insh Allah . We will can’t make it on our own if we do not have the people and the army in our side. God bless Egypt and help us now.
Friday April 8th started wonderfully and it ended by a disaster ,a real disaster that is jeopardizing the whole revolution and our whole future actually. We are responsible for this disaster whether SAFC or activists or media.
You probably know that the army ended violently that sit in made by those alleged defected army officers and the activists that supported them. You probably know that the army used excessive force that ended officially in killing 1 person and injuring 71 according the ministry of health. You probably know or may not know that all people are worried now in Egypt from further clashes between us and the army especially the angry youth. Up till now there is a lot of contradicting stories and numbers , what I have mentioned above is the thing I am sure of.
I will start first with the SAFC and its stupid decisions. The SAFC’s decision process speed is too slow for a revolution that achieved a lot in 18 days , too slow for real time media that can turn things up side down in a day . The SAFC is acting in an army way by nature despite now it is playing politics. Old generals deal with younger generations sometimes from parenthood perspective and other times from commandership perspective. I explained my general views regarding the council here. The army is using the curfew law to enforce their side and to defend their actions and I think throughout the day they knew the defected officers were using the revolutionary feelings to get protection. The defected officers were using the civilians as human shields and unfortunately they did turn in to human shields. How could not the army pay attention to this !!?
Why did not the army arrest those defected officers earlier !!? Do not tell me that the army was afraid from media coverage and public reaction !!? Arresting those defected officers earlier at 6 PM for instance would not have not caused such fuss , in fact now it has become an international media circus. The decision to use excusive force regardless of disastrous results is politically stupid.
The SAFC made thing worse when it published this statement regarding the incident at 5.34 AM Cairo Local time
That first FB statement could have played important role in not making things worse than they were already. It was short and was written badly to the level that many Facebookers , tweeps and activists doubted its truth. The 34th MSG. states the SAFC has ordered the arrest of Egyptian businessman and NDP remnant Ibrahim Kamel and his office manager along with some of his followers. The council accused them of sending thugs and elements that turned the people against the army in Tahrir. The statement claims that Kamel’s men ,the remnants of NDP were terrorizing the public during the curfew hours , the thing which led the army use force.
Later the SACF had a press conference that was not aired live but rather edited. The press conference included a report that showed a clear communication problem at the SAFC. The official report announced at the press conference was even worse accusing the protesters at Tahrir last night to be from the counter revolution and that there were threats at the American and Israeli embassies making it hard from the army. The generals denied that the army used live ammunition as the units that stormed the square were unarmed . They underestimated the video clips that took the world by storm today saying that they showed nothing incriminating the army units !! Another stupid decision in time to crisis !!
The PR policies of the army should be changed completely , we are no longer in time of Mubarak so the council has to realize that. General Ismail Etman should realize that he is no longer in time of Mubarak with all due respect to him.
Transparency is what we actually need from the council now more than ever , transparency and accountability are what we seek and we need now to rebuild this trust between the people and the army.
When you have a situation like that involved accusations to the army and what was considered by many as a coup attempt you do not address in this first in a Facebook short statement especially when there is blood and there are civilian casualties. If Ibrahim Kamel is involved in this attempt to destabilize the country in this way , why not to make a press conference and show all the evidences that incriminate him in this incident to the whole world.
Call me naive but knowing the level and importance of Kamel in time of Mubarak , I will not find some sort of fiction that he would be involved in something like that. Th businessmen class in Egypt during the Mubarak era especially that A++++ class close to Mubarak himself is too damn dangerous to level you can’t imagine. Of course the fact that Kamel despite his danger has been free till today makes the SAFC in very bad position. Already I wonder if he is in Egypt after all !!
The Egyptian army reputation is already in deep trouble worldwide because of their late reaction and lack of transparency and accountability regarding the attacks of the military police against civilians including the aggression on female protesters and students at Cairo university. Again they have to realize that they are not longer working in the battlefield but rather in the civilian world. The SAFC should learn from its previous mistakes and correct its ways , it should not rely on the fact that the people will take its side over the revolution.
Despite the sensitivity of the topic , the Egyptian media is still scared from covering the matter as it should. If you cover neutrally as you should in a professional way , you will save the day actually. Hiding the truth in this critical times give a golden opportunity to the enemies of the revolution of spreading their lies. There was no journalist interested in knowing the details of those defected officers and who they were or how many people were really injured and killed.
There is still this psychological barrier between the journalists and covering army related issues , ok but I am pretty amazed that those defected officers were not connected by the journalists even for curiosity. The Egyptian national TV is still proving that it has got a lot of time to become the Egyptian people’s TV.
Now moving to the activists and defected army officers whom exactly we do not know their full names or even how many they were. We got contradicting stories in a strange way. Some claimed 3 of them were killed while when I was following the matter in twitter live , I read that 3 of them escaped. The army denied that any of them were killed. Again contradiction with emotional talks makes things worse.
From the beginning as far as I know there were no plans for sit in when the trial Friday was planned. The sit in was brought up by those officers whom vowed not to leave except when their demands were met. Their main demand was forcing the SACF to step down. I hope that our radical activists wake up from their revolutionaries dreams and remember that this is a coup according to all sorts laws and common around the globe. From the start these officers should not have came and participated in the protest in their uniforms. This is a crime , a sign of mutiny all over the world for God sake.
I will not compare this to Ahmed Shoman incident because there is a huge change in time , already I wonder where these officers were at that time !! I know the radical revolutionary activists will not like this but this is the army. Many people in Egypt consider it the last standing organization if it goes down , then it is not the end of revolution but the beginning of real chaos in Egypt. The corruption in army will not be solved like the corruption in the ministry of interior nor the army is the state security buildings we can storm.
Now I am very distributed by some tweeps and activists who made from these unknown officers heroes without knowing anything of them to the level of accusing the rest of the Egyptian officers and soldiers of being cowards and traitors. You want to attack the SAFC , attack it from here to eternity but you do not insult the officers of the army and accuse of treason and dishonor, ironically those tweeps were wondering where the army was when Gaza was bombarded from two days ago !!?
Unfortunately Some of these activists despite bragging of being in the streets all day have lost all the connection to the rest of the Egyptian people who will stand with the Egyptian army despite they know very well that it suffers from corruption just like any other institutions in the country. These activists do not know that they are jeopardizing the revolution by losing the Egyptian people in this way.
Of course these activists believe that the Egyptian people are too damn ignorant and passive as most of them voted for yes in the referendum not to mention most of them did not sleep at Tahrir square , thus they should not have the right to choose. They have the right to choose for millions of Egyptians and so you find now them boldly say the SAFC must step down and a presidential council takes over due to what happened yesterday !!!!!!!!!
I am sorry but last time I checked those activists said that they would accept the results of the first free democratic referendum whose results were crystal clear everybody. I did not choose a Presidential committee in the referendum and so did millions of Egyptians.
The activists have to be angry but their anger should not blind them from truth and reality. They should not forget our main goal which is not the SAFC currently. When we have a parliament , when we have elected president , we can open the files of the army during the Mubarak’s era as we want in the correct way.
Now regarding activists Nawara Negm has been under huge attack and fire because of her position from the defected officers despite she slammed the pathetic press conference of the SAFC. Due to the fact she did what she had promised and reported the defected officers to the MP whose answer was another question mark in that X-File , all people blame for last night attack. I hate to tell you that the army did not wait for Nawara Negm’s phone call to move like that , already the SAFC made it clear that it would not let anyone wearing a military uniform with no right in the country. She did not tell the army units at Tahrir to treat the protesters like that.
The SAFC has made terrible mistakes but Egyptian activists have turned in to their own worst enemies. The Egyptian activists do not want to play politics , they do not want to leave the Tahrir at the right time and return to it at the right time to deliver to get what they want.
Now to the reactions of the world and the political powers in Egypt.The Muslim brotherhood of course supports the SAFC’s statement and its members who participated at the yesterday’s protest said that they did not want the officers to get in to the podium with the uniforms.
Possible presidential candidate Mohamed ElBaradei was from the early public personalities who addressed the matter, he spoke about the importance of trust between people and the army and that dialogue was the only option.
Possible presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabhi condemned the attack and toughly describing it as a crime that expresses the old ex-regime policies. The man who said once that the army can a role like the Turkish army believes that the confidence between the people and the army depends only on the accountability. Strong words indeed but I wonder if the good intentions of Hamdeen Sahbi but I wonder if he is firing back at ElBaradei.
Egyptian businessman Ibrahim Kamel denied the allegations and claimed that the SAFC was meant another Ibrahim Kamel !! So the man is free and is giving statements to El Masry El Youm !!
A group of political powers gathered in the morning and issued a statement at press conference in an early move at the syndication of journalists and it started good and ended by fights. I found their statement was balanced considering it was made in a very short time. The statement warns the attempts to turn the people and the army against each are increasing rapidly especially we are getting closer from the prosecution of Mubarak’s inner circle.
Again I will be labeled by every name and every accusation in the diction because of what I see and I think. I do not care , at least one person was killed last night and the country is on the edge of the unknown.Shall we pass it !!? Well insh Allah we will. We changed a powerful 30 years old dictatorship in a peaceful revolution that has not finished yet , we are still have got many battles in our war with the previous regime to win insh Allah . We will can’t make it on our own if we do not have the people and the army in our side. God bless Egypt and help us now.