tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003335.post6651743347431930118..comments2024-03-18T13:13:41.444+02:00Comments on Egyptian Chronicles: #Oct1973War : The lessons We Failed to learn after 40 years !!Zeinobiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290387395565291310noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003335.post-72814183880289890502013-10-13T23:42:05.159+02:002013-10-13T23:42:05.159+02:00Blaming the Jews? Religion is faith? what on earth...Blaming the Jews? Religion is faith? what on earth are you talking about. <br /><br />I think you need to re-read my comment and try and understand it a little better before blowing up in frustration about whatever you think i was talking about.<br /><br />People on a day to day basis in Egypt live simple lives and interact with others who have always had the same political opinions for the last 6 decades. Their common enemy at one time was Israel (because we were at war with them). <br /><br />Our common enemy shifted because we were no longer in open warfare and a whole generation has passed since we had zeal for an external entity. The only common enemy we had was Mubarak subsequent to that.<br /><br />Now there is no common enemy and many people are showing so many different perspectives on how Egypt should be run. Before this, it was "defeat Israel" then "oust Mubarak", now there are so many greys that nothing is as easy as saying there should be ONE way to rule the country.<br /><br />But that in itself is not the problem. The problem is that now we actually have these vast contrasts of opinions and no one is willing to accept the other's differences. Why? because we havent been confronted with significant differences in the political sphere for the last 6 decades. We dont know how to confront each other with our differences.<br /><br />Is that really too hard to understand? Or are you going to argue about something else totally irrelevant?<br />Adel Helalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10666066501005522895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003335.post-50943156753615565842013-10-13T06:21:40.965+02:002013-10-13T06:21:40.965+02:00ما اشبه اليوم بالبارحة..!
ما اشبه اليوم بالبارحة..! <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03517371389558950618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003335.post-46730676713497327272013-10-12T19:03:37.851+02:002013-10-12T19:03:37.851+02:00There is an old cartoon that was popular in the 19...There is an old cartoon that was popular in the 1970s in America. It was called POGO and little "Pogo" was a beaver I think, an animal. He said, "I have met the enemy and he is us" . Here is Pogo: <br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_(comic_strip)<br /><br />I see he was a possum and not a beaver. You can find his picture if you search on google, "Pogo images, I seen the enemy"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003335.post-2904431033559354002013-10-12T17:12:04.513+02:002013-10-12T17:12:04.513+02:00Adel wrote and for the readers: this is the real d...Adel wrote and for the readers: this is the real disaster of Egypt: there is too much religion that is nauseating <br /><br /> >We had a common religious majority: Islam.<br /><br />Your "hub" should be not be to a religion but to your homeland Egypt and to the country where you live Australia. <br /><br /> Islam neither gives you a homeland nor does it educate or employ or feed you or any other religion for this matter. <br /><br />Religion is faith and it should be placed where it belongs in the spiritual and not the profane spheres of life. Good for you that you are Muslim but that does not mean very much except to you and the fact that 90% of Egyptians happen to be Muslim does not mean that they all share the same ideas or even agree on anything. Just think of the schism between the Shia and the Sunni Muslims or between liberal/secular and jihadi and takferee Muslims in Egypt <br /><br />If all Egyptians agree life would be boring <br /><br />Stop blaming the Jews and grow up Luke Theonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06067491197043331910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003335.post-75953220934455912912013-10-12T08:27:35.381+02:002013-10-12T08:27:35.381+02:00Well said. The biggest problem we have today is th...Well said. The biggest problem we have today is that we have had more than 60 years living with a common enemy: Israel. We had a common religious majority: Islam. This generation has never had the opportunity to "differ" about significsnt opinions because we all believed in the same thing more or less. Today we are a generation that is no longer in conflict with Israel and no longer have a dictator in Mubarak. The fact we have so many opposing opinions over the last 2 years and no longer have common enemies means we are confronting each other with our differences, and we have no experience in doing so. Living abroad (Australia) has taught me to accept significant differences in societry that have us constantly justifying our believe and way of life. it has helped us articulate our opinions in a mature and sophisticated manner. This period in Egypt's history is a hard lesson for us to get experience in dealing with opposing opinions. We are failing with false accusations and animosity even amongst our own family members. We need to step up in maturity and understand how to deal with our differences<br /><br />@adelhelal<br />Adel Helalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10666066501005522895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003335.post-10012584873216461242013-10-12T00:49:33.479+02:002013-10-12T00:49:33.479+02:00Institutions based upon the veneration of violence...Institutions based upon the veneration of violence, as in militaries, militias, and certain kinds of security organizations, naturally attract people with a psychological fixation on the accumulation and maintenance of power. This is why they are such a fecund source of dictatorship, totalitarianism, and entitlement mentality toward wealth and power. <br /><br />This psychology exists in other types of organizations, but what is happening now is a direct exposure of it as it emanates from institutions dedicated to violence. The economic elite version is more subtle and less crude. But it is necessary either way to look at the underlying mentality to comprehend why some individuals cling to power and privelege with such ferocity.<br /><br />Now that militarists and ex-NDPists have made such inroads again, they will shed blood to resist being dethroned from positions of privelege. Orange Ketchuphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11147889868883061979noreply@blogger.com