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Egypt ... amid a riotous start & aware ending
Published in Alriyadh on 06 - 02 - 2011

I am not a defendant of President Hosni Mubarak, or in a situation of defending the opponent parties. What concerns me most is the situation of Egypt and the future of its people in the light of what is going on in Tahrir Square.
I listen to a lot of comments by a lot of people of different specializations while following what is happening on the TV. Where have all these opinion been before what is happening now? Many months ago, I remember that I used a taxi in Cairo with two of my colleagues, and we were surprised by the driver who exploded with curses against the state and the society faces. We tried to convince him that the treatment to his society's problems is different from treating the problems of other Arab societies for two reasons: the difference in the population as perhaps the population of three Gulf countries together is less that the population of Alexandria alone. Also the difference in the type of potentials; the surplus of the resources of one Gulf country with a population of less than one million, and that of Libya alone for example, exceeds the economical potentials of a country which population exceeds eighty millions. However, he would not listen. We were astonished when he raised his head and started praying "O' God grant victory to Osama Bin Laden", and he repeated that maybe over ten times, then he continued praying for Qaeda. We could hardly convince him what does Bin Laden mean, and what Al-Qaeda means with their account of crimes against Muslims before others.
How come that there is no national media to correct concepts and approaches between the society brackets! And how come that the Egyptian economical investments abroad are more than those inside!
I know that there are a number of educated people and journalists who dealt with the conditions of their societies honestly. And regardless to taking a positive or negative situation, it is a must that we should treat the conditions of our Arab World objectively, and target the public interest which, if did not strengthen the social ties, would at least extenuate them and open windows of understanding that would help bring the dimensions of the social relations reality closer. Such dimensions, in any society, either rich or poor, are the basis of conflicts. Unless there are rapprochement endeavourers to unite the awareness, they would at least avoid the crudeness of the risks.
Undoubtedly, all of us are following the Egyptian events, as with the necessity to have an Arabic sense; it would be natural to see everyone following. This is also due to the particularity and importance of the Arabic Egyptian membership generally, and then to the balanced roles of Cairo in breaking up the basis of the Arabic conflicts, especially serving the Palestinian case by which the conflicts of its leaders burdened Egypt's shoulders.
Egyptian leadership's awareness has contained all forms of confrontation, and Mubarak was the first to provide his objective resolutions. Meanwhile, the new vice-president and PM were heading the aware and logical presence. Perhaps the most important benefits is restricting the intervention attempts, and suppressing the attempt of creating conflicts between the different groups by isolating each group; specially that the unrest was started by a limited number of college and high school students, which was then increased by the additions.


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