Egyptian Chronicles: A country for sale !!

I don't know exactly where we are heading Egypt ,surely we are not heading towards the safe side , no way we are going already in the wrong turn and we seem to be going deep and deep to the bottom faster than ever.

Not that only ,I don't know exactly who is ruling Egypt seriously and the one who rules it is working for it or against it.

You will ask the same questions just like me if you knew or read the scandal of the Sinai land.The mother of all corruption scandals.

The scandal was that the Egyptian government in the mid 90s sold a piece of land in South Sinai between Sharm El-Shekih and El-Tur ,the size of the land is 40 thousand Kilometer !! That huge space was going to be used to make resorts and hotels , of course the government back then didn't have any suspicion after the primary investor was an Egyptian called Wageh Elie Sigah ,who had also beside the Egyptian citizenship ,the Italian and the Lebanese , Sigah comes from a well known family in tourism by the way , anyhow he wasn't the only investor after it was a huge piece of land for a great project that needed lots of funding and so there were some partners Italians with Egyptian origin and three citizenships "Egyptian,Italian and Lebanese" along with Qatari investors

Already there was an argue between the prime minister then "Ataf Abid" and minister of tourism then "Mamdouh El-Baletagy" {I guess I hinted for this before} that El-Baletagy received information that there were other investors in the bargain who didn't reveal themselves because they knew very that they wouldn't be welcomed ,yet this information didn't stop "Abid" from approving the bargain and the investors bought the land as the prime minister thought that it was a great opportunity for encouraging international capital money to invest in Egypt,ironically now "Abid" is defending himself saying that it is not from the jobs of the prime minister then to approve or disapprove the Sinai land buyers !!

But the National security service aka in the old time Egyptian intelligence found had to interfere because it turned out the information "El-Baletagy" had received earlier that the real investors were a group of Israelis !!

And thus the only one who saved day was the National Security which presented a report to the President on which he gave his order to cancel the deal and to issue his presidential decree immediately to forbid the sell of land in Sinai to foreigners , the land in Sinai to be sold only for Egyptians and if those Egyptians must have the approval of the national security and the president , also if those Egyptians got foreign partners whether Arabs or any other nationalities they must take also the approval of the president and the national security

According to this the deal was canceled yet the Egyptian government didn't return back the money it took from the investors and it was big sum for sure and thus the group of investors went to the courts not in Egypt but abroad to the international court to get a good compensation strangely the Public as usual wasn't aware of this deal and its consequences except when the court ruled that the Egyptian government has to pay for them 50 million dollars which equals to 300 million Egyptian pound !! I don't know why on earth they didn't act wisely and return back their money to them as soon as the deal was over

Israelis want again to buy land in Sinai , strangely the attempts of Israelis or Zionists to buy lands in Sinai didn't stop ,in fact they go back to the 19th century exactly in year 1882 a German Jew "Freedman" tried to make a deal with both the Egyptian and Turkish government to rent a part of the Sinai peninsula to establish his own Israel kingdom ,it happened right after the persecution of Jews in Russia that led to their immigration by hundreds , this was a well documented incident in Egyptian "Moiad" Newspaper that were published in 1882 and 1892 ,he came and tried to make a settlement but his attempt failed due to bureaucracy thank Goodness and the struggle of sovereignty between Egypt and Turkey ,during that time Egypt was under the Turkish control yet the sons of Mohamed Ali Pasha tried hard to have their own independence , anyhow Freedman was not the only loser in this incident ,Egypt also paid the price as it had to give up its control on the Aqaba Gulf {2}"Oh yes we used to control it , in fact we use to have control on many other locations back then"

It doesn't stop here in Sinai or the Zionists but also goes beyond that for example the famous "Tahrir" square Egypt's biggest public squares, 7000 KM piece of land was sold to French company for 10,000 E.P per meter despite the current price of the meter in this location is not less than 50,000 E.P , see the difference between the two numbers !!

The "Tahrir" Square which I guess is one of the most famous squares in the middle east , already I don't have a clue what the French company was going to use this land for , I mean this is not the perfect place for hotels despite the fact it is just few steps from the Egyptian museum but I mean it is damn crowded

Again under the pressure of series of articles led by famous Egyptian Poet "Farouk Gouda" in Al-Ahram the deal was canceled and again the Egyptian had to pay because of a court rule another 6 numbers sum and even more because they didn't give the money for damages !!

El-Tahrir square and Sinai should be not sold for anyone comes with money in his hands ,it is not land I am speaking about but I am also speaking factories that are sold for less than their original prices for foreigners to either close them or downsize the employees increasing the unemployment rates in Egypt, I am speaking about financial institutions like banks ,successful banks in the last two years were sold to French and Lebanese banks ,our capital money is not going inside but instead outside ,I am talking about Omar Effendi this legendary department store which is said to be owned by the same grandson of its founder ,this French Jew man yet he seemed to come for revenge as the store as the media was speaking is empty from goods in the most strange way despite we are just days from the summer sales and the Arabs tourist season !!

I am afraid we are just like in the day of Ismail Pasha and Tawfik Pasha a complete dominance for foreigners on the economy and industry ,this could lead us again to revolution and the return of socialism and nationalism policies with their cons

Already I am afraid the day will come and the Suez Canal will be put for sale too

In the end I think this animation is the best to summarize what is going to happen in the future in the same way "It is translated"