It’s Happening!

By: Ahmed ELNAHAS – Montopoli, October 9^th 2013.

According to a report by Gianpiero Gramiglia on today’s Il Fatto Quotidiano, last Saturday a secret blitz carried out by a US Marines’ DELTA Force unit, ended up apprehending an Al Qaeda leader namely Abu Anas Al Libi. Obviously the event was badly digested by the Libyan authority other than the followers of the captive.

Foreseeing the possible retaliatory activities which could target US Diplomatic personnel and interests in Libya or in neighbouring North African States, the State Department talked about “precautionary measures” while the Pentagon mobilised a special Task Force Unit from its Spanish base MORON to reinforce its southern Italian base of Sigonella (according to the weekly TIME the base from which the DELTA Force have started the Saturday mission) in Sicily.

Ready to strike at a moment’s notice and code-named ‘BENGAZI’ the unit  consists of: 4 MV22 Osprey personnel air-transport units, 2 KC-130 air refueling tanks, and of course 200 marines; and carries out, among many other tasks, missions for evacuating US civilians, hostage recovery, and protection activities.

The US bases of Moron in Spain, Sigonella in Italy and Suda Bay in the Greek island Crete constitute one of the strong holds of American presence in the Mediterranean; and they all “are in support of eventual needs of the personnel and/or assets of the USA/Africom” (the US Military Command for Africa).

A department recently created to match the progressive modifications of the Military Crisis’s geography following the apparent end of the Cold War, the overcoming of the Balkans Conflicts, the endless War On Terrorism, and the explosion of the Arab Spring along with its counter blows; thus transforming the role of the US and NATO bases to return as the Aircrafts Carriers and the bridge to use as a launch paddock towards the Middle East and North Africa.

Now, after viewing what Mr. Gramiglia have reported, let me examine a couple of facts to try and deduct a conclusion or an hypothesis of a conclusion.

·         We know that there are over 33 US military bases in Italy alone, with tens of thousands troops and marines, storing an immense arsenal including tens of nuclear devices! So imagine the amount of arms, crafts, logistics and material deposits, installations, arsenals, fuel and troops existing now in Europe and in the Mediterranean area. And if you’re interested to know the number of active military US bases around the world just digit List, or map, of US military bases and you’ll find the link for militarybases.com.

·         It is also no secret how the US military intervenes unilaterally and without prior notification to the proper local authorities.. It has been doing that in Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, Pakistan, Iraq and God knows where else.. And that is another clear indication that it does not trust its ‘ALLIES’; except Israel.

·         If they are squeezing on Libya from the west, Syria from the North, and Sudan from the south; what could be the outcome on Egypt’s stability?

·         Add to that the ‘apparently unknown’ source(s) financing  [1] the internal terror groups whereby everyday the security forces are capturing individuals roaming about in the streets of Cairo and elsewhere bearing very large amounts of cash to pay whomever in the name of the Brotherhood for recruiting purposes or simply to buy support and sympathy; and [2] the tons of armaments and ammunitions smuggled from Libya through the western border.  

Adding up all these ‘facts’ together, one could clearly realise that the US/NATO “Plan To Redesign the New Middle East*” is actually on course.

Pass On The Word.

*See my article “What’s The Plan?” dated September 21^st 2012 and published on my blog http://haalitheoracle.blogspot.it/

PS: I’m sure that our  political and military Strategists do know and are considering these facts, nevertheless my question remains valid: “when will they transparently revert to the population with the plan to counter them, in order to unite and solidify the internal front in support of their present and future actions?”!!

The stomach not the brain.

By: Ahmed ELNAHAS – Montopoli, October 6^th 2013.

I have just listened to President Adly Mansour’s address to the nation commemorating the 40^th October War day. His announcement about the Dab’aa Nuclear Reactor project alarmed me a lot.. More than the Suez Canal ambitious investments plan. And I still can’t find any valid explanation for the necessity that every administration must hold on to a “Giant National Projects for the welfare of our generations to come” so that we end up drowning deeper in more debts to finance unnecessary projects, or at least not of a prior importance.

The High Dam, The Toushky Valley, the subways and many more projects which couldn’t be a priority for a needy and ignorant population like ours.. Instead of the Nuclear with all its risks (Chernobyl and Fukushima are still close) not only the structural ones but as well those environmental and ecological; for until today no one have ever confirmed the existence of a safe nuclear wastes disposal, or thehealth hazards level on human and other beings tightly connected inside the food chain and the life cycle.

If we must acquire more debts to create energy,  wouldn’t it be more convenient for a country blessed with a year-long sunny climate to use sun-rays as the guaranteed continuous and renewable source to obtain much secure and clean energies; through serious projects and enhancing scientific research and creating real job opportunities for thousands of our graduates in the fields of solar energy and related feeding industries.

Can’t we produce that relatively simple technology and make it our strategic objective to cover the entire domestic family needs with that safe energy in say 15 years time? How many families will settle down serenely from such a wide range of job offers boom on a national scale? They have already done that since three decades in the Scandinavian states, in Germany and in Austria, where they see the sun 38% of the year!! Why not us?

I’m sorry my friends but I can’t grasp the twisted logic driving us always to enjoy self scourging or auto-flagellation.. Have we lost our common sense? Not to realise that it’s all a political game and it has nothing to do with the “welfare of our generations to come”.. Because if that is the objective than why not try the renewable sources of energy instead? Their results are immediate and their social impact is spotless.

The Muslim Brotherhood didn’t really care about Egypt or the collectivity of its population.. And now I fear that we’re about to experience a “Déjà Vu” phenomena that will surely sedate our feelings and contain our hopes, reducing Democracy into the freedom for exchanging jokes in public and practicing sarcasm on opponents in Parliament and public offices through oriented media. So that questions like who will finance, who will build, and by what confirmed scientific guarantees; will all remain unanswered.

And the old game of cartels and monopolies will continue under the umbrella of a severely controlled and carefully censored Democracy..

If the northern Europe countries paid corrupt leaders and officials of the third world to dispose their radioactive wastes (among other hazardous industrial, pharmaceutical and medical scoriae) in their countries; who will we pay to dispose of ours?  

All because the people everywhere have always proved to bear a very short memory.. “People crawl on their stomachs”.. Unfortunately, whoever made that statement he have certainly centered the bull’s eye.

Pass On The Word.

Dreams to remember!

By: Ahmed ELNAHAS – Montopoli September 29^th 2013.

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I know it doesn’t mean a thing, but it’s the only way by which my cat expresses its solidarity and support for my writings: by stepping on the key board, imitating my single digit picking, while I clean my eyeglasses before writing.. Usually I erase its input, yet today I decided not to.. Maybe it has something to do with the subject, I don’t know.. This cat has the natural gift of making me smile and sometimes laugh especially when I’m going through difficult times and tense moments.. Just like today.

I woke up this morning submerged deep an awkward state of mind very close to a bad mood, though I had a good night sleep.. After my usual light breakfast, consisted mainly by a couple of Kamut bread toasts to accompany a measure of Illy coffee brew dumped in a glass of warm Soya milk followed by a peach fruit; I was able to identify the reason of my gloomy start.. It is in somehow related to that rascal Bruno Vespa and his late night programme on the main Italian state TV channel RAI UNO.

As he is a confirmed devoted servile fan to Silvio Berlusconi, and in his desperate maneuver to set pressure on the Senate before the expected vote on Berlusconi’s decadence as a Senator, he used all what’s in his might to argue the Supreme Court’s final and irrevocable verdict sentencing Berlusconi to 7 years in prison and to ban him from any public office or function for 5 years following the confirmation of his guilt in Financial Fraud and Tax Evasion.

I spent some time after the programme discussing with my wife on how fragile the Italian Democratic System has become throughout the past 20 years, and relaying this fact to the rise of Berlusconi and the methods by which he stormed into Italy’s political arena since 1992, with the only objective to enhance his own interests and to protect himself and his financial empire and business web from the reach of the law; as he knew quit well that all his success, if we could name it as such, is founded upon an interminable chain of illegalities.

The last thought exchanged between both of us before going into sleep was that she felt as if that was her September 11^th!

Probably I slept with that thought comfortably lying in my sub-conscience to slowly work its way to demolish my serenity and peace of mind by which I woke a bit grumpy..

It wasn’t before noon, when I was sipping my second cup of coffee, that I identified the true reason disturbing my mood.. I had several September 11.. Yes indeed.. Not just one but many 911s each of which one by one had their share in shaking my existence and marking my culture so deep as to shape my character into what it has become now..

July 23^rd 1952: the Military Coup falsely acclaimed as the people’s revolution.. Because actions are measured not by their intentions but by their end results.. The military action announced its intention to overturn a ‘Corrupt’ multi parties political system and establish democracy and social justice; so

·         it suspended a century long democratic experience since Nubar Pasha founded the first Egyptian Parliament; a parliament that passed laws ruling our daily lives till this very moment;

·         it manipulated a solid Juridical and Legislative experience matured over more than twenty centuries by what became known as “The Massacre of the Jurisdiction”;

·         it intimidated the intellectuals once by the accusations of Communism, once by that of Islamism, or just by being anti-revolutionaries; bringing thousands of teachers, professors, politicians, clergies, journalists, and artists under arrest without trials, all in the name of the “Collective Good”;

·         it systematically destroyed thousands of years of agricultural experience through wrong and corrupt policies for irrigation and cultivation by the use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides of doubtful origins without knowing their impact on the entire food chain and upon human health;

·         it actually denied “Meritocracy” as a criterion to hold public functions favouring “Parentocracy” or “Trustocracy” (please forgive and allow me the terms); and that became in time the main qualifying edge for any job even for a street cleaner post.. Holding a recommendation became better and stronger than a PHD.. Isn’t that what the 1952 young Free Officers raised hell to obliterate as they have repeatedly educated us by shoving their famous “Six Objectives” down our throats?

·         it ventured in foreign campaigns in support of African revolutions and Regional wars financing rebellions here and there to substitute the established colonial democracies by corruptible local dictatorships; 

·         it claimed that the ignorance, untrustworthy counseling and superficiality characterising the ruling of Khedives Tewfik and Said brought foreign debts and invited colonialism! Well after 60 years we still can’t free ourselves from the grasp of foreign debts and economic colonialism due the miscalculations and ignorance added to the corruption all of which have arrogantly mismanaged the country in a sequel episodes of blunt authoritarian rule.

The misdeeds list is long, but the end result after 59 years was a poorer population, a shrunken middle class, a Corrupt political system, an unbearable National Debt, a profound decay in the systems of education, health care, and social justice; along with an unprecedented absence of values.. No.. Not even that.. Because all through Egypt’s ancient and modern history, common sense and moral values have always prevailed.. Until that day in July back in 1952.

August 23^rd 1965: the death of ELNAHAS Pasha (notorious statesman, Prime Minister, co-founder and later on absolute leader of Al Wafd Party from 1929 till 1952) after 11 years in house arrest, serving a life sentence issued by the special revolutionary court days after Nasser set aside Naguib and took over. Despite that his funeral was testified his overwhelming popularity as millions participated in thundering silence.

June the 5^th 1967 : waking up from the deep coma inflicted in all of us by the systematic media bombardment of propaganda lies, that turned us into a multitude of hypnotised sheering fans, was the cultural shock quaking the roots of my social and political beliefs.. A shock that contained all the “Mourning Phases” in one: ANGER.

July 1968:  The year that marked the birth of the Hippy movement in the United States protesting against the war in Vietnam; the protests in France, and soon after spreading all of Europe like a bush fire, against social injustice and claiming women rights; ours were the protests against the big lie, and like many of my peers, we protested in universities all over the country and in thousands we got arrested and deported for a few months to ‘unknown destinations’ to be subject to various psychological and physical torture techniques.. I believe that this part of my life marked the disbelief in our identity and the complete mistrust in the entire system.. So my silent rebellious acceptance adopted the worst form of indifference manifested, through various other mundane activities, by drinking, smoking, forming pop and jazz bands to entertain many other indifferent partners of the silent majority. It was a very bad and sad moment that made me question  and revise all my priorities.. From that experience on I decided to regain my curiosity and my critical sense to know more and know better. 

November 17^th 1997: Or the day of the Luxor’s west bank massacre.. It was 8 o’clock in the morning, I have just finished my morning tour of the Hotel I managed then, and while reviewing in my office some figures and forecasts the news came.. Without a second thought I took the hotel bus and went to the west bank to get my hotel’s guests scattered there even before their agents do, and once got them all secured inside the Hotel and the head count turned alright, as well as that of our colleagues and collaborators; I started reflecting on the very meaning of what’s been just consumed.. A senseless cruel and savage criminal act of terrorism just took the lives of 80 innocent persons, identifying an enormous security breach to unveil the fragility and incompetence of our country’s several intelligence agencies and their poor security measures and techniques.

It was not only another blow to my beliefs in that corrupt system, concentrated only on ensuring the safe continuity of the Ruler not the safety and security of the Ruled; but as well it was another candle light glowing inside the tunnel to show me how short sighted the tourism policies were.. And still are by the way, but that can dealt with in another full chapter not only a paragraph in an article.

July 25^th 2005: bombs in South Sinai (idem as the previous date).

January 25^th 2011: the people’s spontaneous revolution methodically lost to the Muslim Brotherhood.. Ever since the 1968 ‘unrests’, social boiling never stopped to burst out its steam in many ways.. The last was this one.. As all the precedents. Also this one was brainless.. It just burst in the absence of the ‘poets’.. That’s why the Brotherhood took the bell and held the lead of the flock, and by the time the people realised the gravity of the damage inflicted and the dangers awaiting to overwhelm their lives, even then the intellectuals were absent and unprepared too.. They were busy debating a series of trivialities chained one after the other on purpose by those concerned with the ‘Throne’ and the ‘Safe’.

June 30^th 2013: Only 23 days were left to commemorate the 61^st year of the 1952 Coup, when another Military Coup, and because we don’t like to call things by their names, it was also falsely acclaimed and cheerfully applauded as the “Corrective Revolution”.. And it brought us back to square 1. Meaning that we may have lost sixty years of our lives in vain! Only we became poorer, more ignorant, unemployed, heavily indebted, and much undisciplined. 

The only promising event was that of January 25^th 2011 which could’ve produced a glimmer of hope.. A feeling that couldn’t last long and soon vanished.. That’s why I decided to consider all of these 911s as some “Dreams To Remember” every now and then so as never to forget, because I believe that all memories can bring a smile.. Bitter or sweet, a smile is a smile.. Better than a tear! No?

Pass On The Word.

PS: My apologies Otis for borrowing your song title for my article.. Thank you and rest in peace.

The Veil at sea.

By Ahmed ELNAHAS – Montopoli September 26^th 2013.

Many families chose to spend their holidays in the Egyptian Red Sea jewel of Sharm El Sheikh; families from everywhere and every social and cultural category took the opportunity of the favourable offer promoted by the government to overcome the instability resulting from the turbulent political situation, and boost some business in the injured destination.

One can easily distinguish the various origins just listening to their dialects.. These are Saudis, those are from Kuwait and the ones next to my beach umbrella are Egyptians.. But all those who colonise the swimming pool are Egyptians.. However there are few common factors that are characterising them all:

·         Their women ‘were’ veiled while checking in, wearing various types from the Hijab and Burqa’ to the Niqab and Shador.. Nevertheless they all took them off to exhibit the glamour of their crests, their jewels and make up along with their curves, and the foaming smiles of content falling from the drooled lips of their men suggest total approval.

·         Their children were all overweight or even obese, arrogantly misbehaving and very loud in their expressiveness.

·         They were all wearing very strong perfumes at all times, something that did spoil our gastronomic experiences at the restaurants wherever we went.

·         They all had not the slightest idea of the environment surrounding them and how fragile it is.. They were very cruel in their aggressive approach to the beaches, the coral reefs, the sea creatures and vegetation as well as the beautiful gardens of the resort.

·         One more very important factor assembles them in one single cultural basket no matter to which social grade they belong: their uneducated eating habits are at the time unhealthy other than they produce enormous waste that overburdens the house by exaggerated inflation in production and service costs.

Anyhow, I will park at the Veil bit.. Because I believe it is fundamentally important to ponder about.. While observing the veiled young girls and mature ladies rush their way to the rooms just to change into the latest Armani or Gucci glamorous beach wear, to show the latest Dolce & Gabbana bikinis, all covered with the Patek Philippe jewellery, while their men were having hard time stuffing their oversized bellies into the colourful and ridiculous ¾ trousers taken for swimming suits; then I can’t help realising that this is a flagrant demonstration of ‘Ignorance’ and ‘Hypocrisy’!

Obviously they are convinced that the Veil is not a binding religious obligation, and consequently they are simply hypocritically lying to the society and to themselves.. And as such they exhibit an indisputable ignorance of values and denial of traditions.

Another example of cultural hypocrisy.. A long leg swimming suited man accompanied by a young wife moulded inside a so called Islamic Swimming Suit, slowly walk in the shallow waters of the sea until the water reaches little over his waste, at this point he goes down till the water covers his shoulders, then very slowly helps his woman take off the bottom part of her outfit and after placing her arms carefully wrapped around his neck he slowly introduces himself inside her and they both get involved in their hidden public exhibition copulating in a tender sexual intercourse, thinking that the sea water and their calculated slow movements would hide and purify their act from us, poor innocent holiday makers obliged to take the part of the pervert voyeurs in this silly act.. If we were in Ibiza, it would’ve been normal.. But we were in Sharm El Sheikh Egypt.

The paradox here is the male arrogant and shameful consuming character.. Once he finished vibrating, seemingly ejaculating, he retires out from her leaving the poor woman to fight the sea anti-gravitational forces to piece her outfit together back to normal while he washes his tool and heads back to the umbrella and cover himself with the beach towel and collect his breathing back, then he would be rushing his way to the room in order to get ready for the Friday Prayer!

All through our fifteen days holidays, my wife and I were forced to witness that act repeatedly performed by many other couples, all Egyptians.. And since they do have a room at their entire disposal 24 hours a day all through their stay, we couldn’t find an intelligent explanation for such humiliating human behaviour, except that it all goes back to the definition of the Veil and the interpretation of the religious teachings (all of which were interpreted, defined and set only by MEN).

If it’s a symbol of decency and modesty, then such repeated public copulation acts denies it.. If it’s a obliging religious imperative, then they are simply way out from the believers circles.. And if the absolute obedience to the Husband is considered the rule, then these women are willingly agreeing to enslave their entire existence into man’s dominion, while forgetting or denying that you don’t obey the created against the will of the Creator.. If you believe in the Creator in the first place.. And as such She is as much ignorant and guilty as her spoiled possessive ignorant beloved man.

The real problem isn’t their behaviour or their beliefs; the acute hazard lies in the kind of children they will produce and raise.. What would be the values they could pass on to the coming generation.. Other than selfishness, ignorance and hypocrisy!

Think about it, and

Pass On The Word.

The Dream.. The Golden Anniversary.

By: Ahmed ELNAHAS – Montopoli, August 28^th 2013.

Exactly 50 years have passed by since Reverent Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the staircases leading to the Lincoln memorial before 250000 Americans to deliver his immortal sermon known to the entire humanity as “I Have A Dream”.. Here are a few excerpts I chose to express how actual his speech seem today.

“We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice”.

“It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in this nation until equal citizenship rights are granted”.

“This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children”.

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal’."

Two Luther (s) have carved their posts in history mobilising strong Cultural Protests that soon after triggered overwhelming Social Revolutions, though in different ways..

One German priest who decided to review the Catholic doctrine’s inconsistencies with the early teachings of Jesus, thus establishing a Protestant Movement later on becoming a doctrine thriving towards knowledge and competition..

The other an illuminated Afro-American reverent and devoted human rights activists who worked his way into the doctrine to extract the modern needs and hopes of the mashed masses in order to peacefully restore their civil rights.

Two men did what the Muslim Brotherhood mighty international structure is still unable to do since more than 80 years.. Two men changed the western thought just by following exactly the paths of earlier Muslim philosophers and scientists, whom enlightened and widened human knowledge long before the European tribes reached out from their caverns.

They all knew for certain that the key to power, progress, security and evolution is knowing not fighting.

Pass On The Word.

How greyish Honour has become!

By: Ahmed ELNAHAS – Castelfiorentino, August 25^th 2013.

1.      John Dennis Profumo: On the helm of the British Foreign Office (Secretary Of State), resigned in 1963, for his relation with Christine Keeler at the time the lover of a Russian spy.

2.      Richard Nixon: USA President resigned office in 1974 for the Watergate scandal which revealed his abusive spying on the Democrats.

3.      Willy Brandt: German Chancellor; resigned in 1974 the moment he discovered that his advisor Günther Guillaume had worked for the STASI.   

4.      Arnaldo Forlani: Italian Prime Minister was forced to resign because of his intentional delaying to render public the directories of the members of the P2 Lodge of the Free Masons.

5.      Gary W. Heart: Front figure of USA Democratic Party, pulled out from 1988’s presidential race for the Sex Scandal involving him with the model Donna Rice.

6.      Fernando Collor De Mello: President of Brasil, was discharged in 1992 via impeachment procedure for the accusations of corruption and tax evasion.

7.      Helmut Kohl: German Chancellor, resigned in 2000 from the Honorary Presidency of the CDU for illegal finances scandal.

8.      Moshe Katsav: Israel President, self suspended in 2007 after being accused of sexual violence, illegal interceptions and fraud.

9.      Ehud Omert: Israel Prime Minister in 2006. Abandoned office in 2009 being involved in a series of corruption cases.

10.  Eliot Spitzer: Governor of New York in 2006, resigned following a prostitution scandal.

11.  Michael Martin: Speaker of the English Chamber of Commons. In 2009 resigned for the messy expenses reimbursements to the delegates.

12.  Karl T. Guttenberg: German Defence Minister, resigned in 2011 for accusations of plagiarism (cheating); he would’ve copied part of his graduation thesis.

13.  Dominique Strauss-Kahn: presidential candidate in France. In 2011 ended his race for the accusation of attempted rape in a New York hotel. Sacrificed his office at the IMF top floor.

14.  Michèle Alliot Marie: French Foreign Minister resigned in 2011 after a holiday in Tunisia paid by a businessman tied to Ex President Ben Ali.

15.  Christian Wülff: German President, resigned in 2012 for the scandal of a facilitated loan obtained through a businessman friend.

These are only my random choice from a much longer list of politicians and public figures who stepped aside leaving the glamour of power and the lights of fame, to hide in the shadows of oblivion for a variety of reasons, on top of which reigns ‘Shame’.

However another major motivator, though fallen down the rankings compared to previous centuries, is still there appearing among the first ten reasons for abdication or resignation: ‘Honour’!

If we recall well our history, we shall discover that most of our leaders, politicians, public figures and public servants have always maintained a tight grip over the post at any cost (even dishonourably), considering the position the sole provider of their wellbeing and the most solid assurance of their private interests; while loosening their grasp on the Public Interests in terms of office priorities.

Acting right or wrong, being successful or not, productive or not, honest or not, they always kept their post to the very last instant. They were always either forced to step aside, or given an alternative task, even promoted, or killed.. Yet never got tried before justice even when caught in flagrant guilt.. And they never resigned their mission by their own free will.. Lest very few exceptions proving the rule: Honour as a moral value, same as many values in the verge of extinction,  has become so flexible that it shares a vast grey area together with Dishonour!!

Can you figure out why is that? If and when you find out…

Pass On The Word.

A matter of definition?

By: Ahmed ELNAHAS – Montopoli, August 24^th 2013.

Following the latest events, and in the course of dusting my memory, I went through the Political Science dictionaries to remember the precise definitions of what has been going on since the elected President was sworn in until the Minister of Defence made his much disputed maneuver to pull the carpet(s) from beneath the unfit president’s feet and put him under arrest for whatever accusations, and suggest a new interim president candidate to nominate another interim prime minister to nominate an interim government of which he remains serenely filling his post as Minister of Defence.

Here I have to open a bracket.. Before going any further I have to remind you that my stand, being a laic liberal citizen, remains firm as it was since day one (see my article Last Call Dr. MORSI!! My open letter to the President, posted on October 26^th 2012); unfavourable to a Presidential Republic (especially under the laws in force at the time and still unchanged by the way) yet very much in favour of a Constitutional Parliamentary Republic as defined in the aforementioned article.

Anyhow, I’ll close the brackets here and move back to where I left.. Let me just write the definitions of the terms used these days by everyone all the time, and on all TV channels, domestic and foreign.. So here are the cold abstract definitions:

        I.            Coup d’Étât:  A rapid and violent change of the established order, imposed by the few and endured by the majority.

     II.            White Coup: A coup d’étât, developed without violence, undergone by a government exercising its powers unconstitutionally.

Now I invite you to draw your own conclusions and opinions accordingly, even better to force yourself into your most possible abstract objectivity, and when you connect which to whom…

Pass On The Word.

NB: If you wish to know my conclusions,  overturn your screen to read them.