I had hoped that General Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi had refused to receive Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, the war and evil duo. I had hoped that the interim president, Adly Mansour, and the prime minister, Hazem Al-Beblawi, had rejected all of the foreign efforts undertaken by people who claimed they wanted a solution to Egypt's domestic crisis. The two Republican Senators have supported every war against Arabs and Muslims; the blood of Iraqi children is on their hands. Even so, they had the nerve to claim that they had come to Egypt as part of an effort to see an Egyptian solution to an Egyptian problem. In fact, we should say that their efforts were Israeli. They had asked for a halt to American assistance to Egypt, on the pretext that a coup had taken place. They refused to see the millions of Egyptians demonstrating for the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi and decided, while visiting Egypt, that it was a failed state, or on its way to being one - they actually hope for this, just as McCain warned a coming bloodbath, which he would also like to see. As for other "gentlemen" mediators, they are either working for the interests of their countries, as one would suppose, or for the interest of Israel. In any case, the interest of Egypt and its people is the last thing they think about. The best solution should be Egyptian, with Egyptians responsible for this solution, perhaps helped by Arab mediation. As for the others, we and Egypt have had enough of them, and they should keep their distance. I cannot hide the fact that they have deceived others. They were received by Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy, whose father Ismail was a wise patriot who did not deceive, or become deceived. I could also mention here Tawakul Karman, a dear Yemeni woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize and was banned from entering Egypt after she came to support Morsi. I say to her that she should pay attention to her own country, which has become a headquarters for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, i.e., a headquarters of criminal terror, and the target of American drones, which are killing civilians. The situation in Egypt can tolerate no interpretations or justifications. During the one year of Muslim Brotherhood rule, the economy was destroyed, or nearly destroyed. The country's reserves vanished and the budget deficit rose by 11 percent, while in June, when the Egyptians rose up, inflation was at 9.8 percent, along with record levels of unemployment. The Muslim Brotherhood's supporters demonstrated, held sit-ins and blocked roads, bridges and tunnels to sabotage their own country. The Egyptian Army intervened after the people rose up against the Muslim Brotherhood regime. There was a revolution that was bigger than the one witnessed in 2011, and it aimed at preventing acts of violence and the collapse of security. Yet. McCain and Graham talked about a coup after they turned their backs on the Egyptian people. I was surprised that Senator Rand Paul insisted that a coup took place, and asked that the $1.5 billion in US assistance be spent on America's own inner cities. At least Paul had good intentions, even if he is inexperienced. If he had only done the same with regard to Israeli assistance, which is much larger than what Egypt gets, to help revive American cities suffering from the ongoing financial crisis; even Detroit has declared bankruptcy. I read an editorial deserving of mention in The Washington Post, that great liberal newspaper. Recently, a Jewish man bought it and its information is always correct. Its editorial page contains fair liberal Jews and also extremist Likudniks who put Israel's interest over that of America's. The editorial, written by the pro-Likud types, said that soldiers removed an elected president from power; it did not say that millions of Egyptians did so. It did not doubt the soundness of his election, and the figures are there. The editorial did not take note of the millions of Egyptians who demonstrated against a president from the Muslim Brotherhood; it rejected the statement by US Secretary of State John Kerry in Pakistan, when he said the Egyptian Army intervened to restore democracy, and insisted that the Army ousted an elected president. The newspaper did not see that the "elected president" and his gang tried to make Egypt into the Muslim Brotherhood, and that the terrorist Ayman Al-Zawahiri called for armed resistance, forgetting democracy. It did not see that the leader of the Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, and his advisors faced accusations of inciting the protestors to kill. Egypt will be saved by its people, and the Brotherhood is a part of Egypt. It should have a role in the coming democratic system; the supporters of Israel, meanwhile, are enemies of God and His people.
