Following up on yesterday’s coup, Egypt has sworn in its “interim” president, Judge Adly Mansour, and is setting about to assemble an interim cabinet to maintain the pretense of civilian leadership after the military secured power.
Initial indications were that the junta would piece together a civilian council across the political spectrum, but the mass arrest of members of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the former ruling party, suggests that pro-Western factions that had little political support will get the high profile spots, while Mubarak-era bureaucrats will make up the rest.
Mohammed ElBaradei would’ve been a choice addition, despite his relatively minor political support. He has enthusiastically supported the coup, but declined the position of Interim Prime Minister, likely in part because the position seems entirely honorary.
Instead of ElBaradei, the position is expected to fall to Farouq el-Oqda, the long-time head of Egypt’s Central Bank. He resigned shortly after President Morsi was elected, and left the job in December.
ElBaradei would’ve been a key figurehead for the junta, someone Western nations could and likely would embrace. The installation of Mubarak-era figures like Oqda may not be a big concern in the West, but could fuel domestic opposition to the coup.
Morsi as Turkish government are the one that asked for the Syrian regime to be changed to a puppet regime, morsi even demanded for the arab nation to invade syria, morsi even denied the friedship of the iranians The muslim brotherhood both in egypt and turkey are working to fulfill the Saudis and UAE dreams being able to control and have more of US-England or France and etc. military stationed in Middle East. Although both regimes are elected democratically, in sense of people voting for them, but that doesn't mean that regimes as such can miss use the trust of the people for a personal beliefs, for a religious dictatorial idea making sure that people suffer losing their freedom while they benefit in hindering democracy to have a functions social agenda. People are better off without religious extremism and countries as Egypt or Turkey are much better off then acting as a puppet for USA and EU idea in occupying the entire Middle East. Power of a government needs to be the power of the people, a government obligation, social responsibility is to work for its people not a belief nor a interests where such interests well become the interests of those who run the government.
Is this military coup made by USA in order to get the same chaos as in Somalia, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Libya, Mali, Jemen, Sudan etc. ?
Dividing countries in similar strong parts has been the recipe of Imperialists of all times. The muslim brotherhood with the Al CIAda& Co weapons from the complete Arab rim is strong enough to created an urban guerrilla war as NATO did initiate in Libya and Syria … and Yugoslavia, Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo Iraq etc. etc.
What do you think?
There is a small contradiction:
On the one hand a non-violent situation is required for busniess, on the other hand struggle of the divided nation is required to rule them …
In case of Libya surely having quiet or well defended Oil fields may be enough. But in case of Egypt?
What do they plan? Any clue? Any political think tank papers?
The Packaging of a coup by the Egyptian holdouts of Dictatorship and the self-styled "democracy" leaders!
If one looks at the distribution of 2012 Egyptian Presidential votes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_presidential_elections,_2012), although Mr. Morsi's received support from across the nation, in Cairo he only received 44% of the votes, versus the 55% (or 1.8 million) of the votes his opponent received. Prior to the elections, the leaders of the opposition groups, such as Mr. Mohamed ElBaradei, had openly indicated that they would "take to the streets" and undermine a future Morsi government and had been calling for a military coup through the past year. They were just biting their nails, using their agents within the system to sabotage the government programs, and buying for time, until they could stage a public uprising or had to move!
The reason the holdouts of the old regimes, the ones who happily lived under Mr. Mubarak's rule and benefited from its oppression and cronyism, did not call for a referendum on Mr. Morsi's presidency or the Constitution, rather than an outright overthrow, is quite simple. They knew they would lose, if the public voices from across the nation, instead of their majority support in Cairo, were taken into account. In fact, for all the negative propaganda, the now suspended Egyptian Constitution had been put to a public referendum and been ratified by an overwhelming level of support.
How did they pull off the coup? Mr. Morsi never controlled the security services (police or military), the Mobarak era court systems, or many of the mid level government officials, who have been benefiting from the rampant corruption. The regimes held outs, like Mr. ElBaradei, colluded with the military and the "supreme" court judges to overthrow the publicly elected president. It was easy to count on at least 1 million of the 1.8 million votes they had gotten in Cairo to heed their call and turn out for demonstrations in central Cairo. While, the anti-Mosri demonstrators were being served juice and food by police and the military, Muslim Brotherhood political centers were being attacked and fire bombed. As reported, in many cases uniformed police were helping in the attacks, which were meant to intimidate the Muslim Brotherhood members, and more importantly, disrupt their ability to mobilize their supporters. The pro-Mosri demonstrations, in regions of nation supportive of him, were not being reported, demonstrators were being intimidated by the police and military, and on peaceful marches on several occasions were fired on by machine gun fire, which are exclusively available to the secret police and the military. Subsequently, communication of Muslim Brotherhood and affiliated parties were disrupted, its leaders were arrested, and its media outlets (and independent media outlets) were shut down. All of this was to enable the coup leaders to falsely claim a popular support for their illegal act.
When we look at Mr. Morsi's term, we see that he advocated an exclusive government. He resigned from his political post, following the election. He appointed women and men from all political and religious groups, in accordance to the number of votes their parties had received in congressional elections. Even, when he appointed 15 new governors a week before the coup, he gave members of the minority parties 7 of the positions. However, Mr. Morsi refused to be a do nothing president, which could not get anything done because the old regime hold-outs (primarily in courts and security services) would sabotage anything he would try to do, including pushing for congressional elections.
Mr. Morsi’s undoing was not the push for the Constitution (which after all was put to public referendum) or his demand for congressional elections (so he could have a congress to work with). No , his undoing was replacing a Mobarak era prosecutor with one that would have gone after the rampant corruption in the system (the day before the coup, a court reappointed the same old prosecutor) and finally held corrupt members of the prior regime accountable for their activities. No doubt, everyone, from the “supreme” court judges, who enabled Mobarak era crimes for decades, to Mobarak era politicians, to the privileged and corrupt leadership in the police and military, must have shaken to their core. This would have meant the end of their privileged status.
For the sake of historical accuracy: There was no second revolution in Egypt. This was a coup. A military’s removal of a democratically elected president, based on demands of a minority of people, is a coup. It does not matter whether the military takes direct or indirect control of the system. It does not matter how the coup leaders package their act. They always had the 1.8 million supporters they could bring to the streets of Cairo. They never had the majority of Egyptians and, had it not been for the use of the military and police forces, they would not have ever been able to accomplish their plans.
It will be quite telling to see the reaction of other countries: from dictatorships across the middle-east, who are afraid from similar popular uprising, to the self-professed defenders of democracy in the West, and the very United Nations, who has historically condemned coups, against democratically elected officials. Already, the Syrian Mr. Assad has praised the move and equated it to his use of the military and “justice” system to keep power.
Indeed.
The international context favorable to the coup was prepared months ago. Western MSM deliberately ignored Morsi's struggle to abide by the decisions of an abusive "supreme" court while trying to bring a new constitution, one that Egyptians favored but the West doesn't.
Of course there's nothing at work in favor of democracy in a military overthrow of a freshly elected, legitimate, president, mass arresting the leaders of a legal party and, now, shooting pro-Morsi protesters. It is obvious neither el Baradei kind nor western selective presentation of post-Mubarak Egypt are intended to promote democracy in the true sense. Instead we have at work the western mandatory model of democracy, with fake debates and useless elections, crafted to favor a privileged elite at national level and major corporate interests at international level.
can you call these junta – 33 million egytian supported this junta – or this real democracy – demo means people cracy power – democracy means people power – in usa democracy means free speech only – this not democracy – in usa Zionism cracy not people cracy