Trying Too Hard

It seems the Egyptian regime has now gone full force against Hizbullah and Iran attempting to lower the support that Hizbullah has amongst the Egyptians. The crime of Hizbullah is that they tried to help out the trapped people in Gaza by supplying the people with essential day to day products and the resistance with weapons and ammunition. It is true that Hizbullah by sending members of its group to Egypt does indeed violate the sovereignty of Egypt but if the Egyptian government refuses to open up the Rafah border and allow the Palestinians whom have been trapped in Gaza for almost 2 and a half years with limited supplies, and if the Egyptian government refuses to support those who are willing to fight for their freedom by at least turning a blind eye to the smuggling of weapons to those freedom fighters then someone else will take up that role. It is unfortunate that such a regime has borders with Gaza.
(On this note let me point out that Mr. Mubarak along with other world leaders and politicians are nothing short of criminals for not forcing Israel to lift the siege off Gaza even after a devastating military attack by the Zionists).

I am most amazed by the Egyptian media which has lost all of its professionalism in the way it has been dealing with the issue. The slandering of Hasan Nasarallah, or any other leader or even person in such a manner by supposedly professional journalists writing in respected news outlets, is nothing less than shameless and utterly shocking, these journalists have managed to reach new levels of low.

The most infuriating thing is how those journalists repeat the same thing as if if they keep saying it we will have to believe it.

One thing I would really want an answer to is the comment made by journalists and politicians who are saying that "the Egyptian people are completely around/support the Egyptian government in everything it does", to what extent is this? Do the Egyptian people support the Egyptian governments role in the Gaza war by sealing off the border and not allowing aid to go through? Do they support the view that Hamas and Iran (and any other state that refuses to be dictated by America) are the enemies while Israel and the United States are their "best friends"? Do they share the opinions of their foreign minister when he said that "any Palestinian coming through the borders will have their legs cut off" during the time the Gazans broke through the Rafah border crossing out of desperation? Do the Egyptian people believe that internally their country and government is at its best shape, economically and socially?!

And what the hell is that claim about "spreading Shiaism" in Egypt?! As if the Egyptian Government is so worried about the spirituality of its people; that Shiaism will spread like wild fire if it wasn't for the heroic interventions of the flawless government that stopped one man of 25 years of age sent by Hizbullah to convert the people of Egypt to Shiaism. I wonder if those Palestinians and Egyptians helping the Hizbullah agent are Shia as well considering that at least 3 members of that "Cell" belong to the Muslim Brotherhood. I find those claims by Egypt and other Arab governments that Iran is trying to spread Shiaism within their countries is very patronizing and condescending to Arabs and non-Arabs in the Muslim world.

Some members of the Egyptian parliament are saying that Egypt should respond by two folds to the attempts of destabilizing the country by Hizbullah and Iran. What can Egypt do? Ever since the peace treaty signed between the Egyptians and Israelis the Egyptian role and presence in the region has slowly been diminishing. Iran and quickly Turkey, are playing the major roles in the region. Can the Egyptian presence in the region be compared to that of the Iranians? The Egyptians were not even able to get the Palestinians to agree on forming a unity government, unlike the Iranians who have now complete control of Iraq and Lebanon. The Egyptian government has lost its ability of political decision making, which is currently in the hands of the US and Israel, which explains Mubaraks invitation to Netanyahu a week prior to revealing this Hizbullah "cell".

The Egyptians (and when I say Egyptians followed by criticism I mean the Egyptian government) is trying too hard to create this separation between the Sunnah and Shia'a Islam, they are trying too hard to minimize the mentality of 'resistance' within the Egyptian population by smearing the image of those who chose to resist and be truly sovereign unlike the fake sovereignty the Egyptian government claims it has. That resistance to the imperialist plans of Western nations is the only thing that brought the Arabs and Muslims any good, and if anyone claims there is any other means by which we can liberate our countries, bring peace and justice to those that have been persecuted for so long then they are wrong.