The Revolution and Me

Some may think that I am a royalist girl who is crying day and night for the lost monarchy thanks to my hobby in tracing the images of the Egyptian Royals, but this is not true, believe it or not I believe in the principals of the Egyptian Revolution and I believe that it happened as a result of the terrible situation that had preceded it from corruption

It was just going happen sooner or later, a matter of time

Again when I will say that I believe in the principals of the Egyptian Revolution but I am not with most of the Revolution officers’ vision of how these principals would have been achieved, in fact you will be surprised that they did not achieve any principal from  the famous 6 “3 Establishing and 3 demolishing as we were taught in history “

I do not need to speak about the failure of the Egyptian army in the 1956 first test and I don’t need to speak about the catastrophe that happened 10 years later to prove that the Free officers did not establish a powerful strong army that could have protected Egypt from the greed of Israel and other powers of imperialism that did not want Egypt to be fully independent and return again in the international community as a regional power whether in the Middle east or Africa

And I don’t need to speak about the failure of having a healthy democratic life , because in 1954 the same majority of officers who swore in fulfilling that principal where the same officers who supported Gamal Abd El-Nasser in his coup against President and General Mohamed Naguib who believed that the real democratic constitutional life is the only healthy route

I don’t speak again about the revolution because the revolution was ended at very early time, some say that the end was in 1967,when the six days war results woke up the people on the reality of the regime they had trusted and believed in

Some say that the end was in 1961 when there was that Nasser-Hakim fight that ended with the victory of Hakim having control on the army

Some say that the end was in 1971 When Nasser died and Sadaat became the president

Yet I think that the end of the revolution or the coup of 1952 that turned in to revolution due to the public acceptance ended when it was turned in to a means in spreading the cult of the “President-God” starting from 1954

After the humiliating inside exile of President Naguib, Nasser began to eliminate all those who could be considered as danger in the revolution leadership council using at the same time his attractive charisma to charm not only the Egyptian people but the whole Arab people playing on their weakness point that is their dignity

You will be surprised to know that there were members in the Free officers who warned from turning Nasser in to an idol just like one of the Salam brothers , whom I don’t recall his name correctly

Ironically one of those same brothers my late Grand father “May Allah bless his soul” remembered how he caused the death of one of the Egyptian journalists back in the 1950s to remark the first assault on journalism in Egypt, I do not recall the details, anyhow it shows you that the new rulers were not so fond with the free press and so it was not wonder that in the 1960s Nasser nationalized the press

Nasser ironically kept day and night cursing the late King Farouk , the playboy forgetting that he himself became a king ,sorry a Pharaoh , who refused to leave the rule just like the kings except on the death bed,setting it as golden rule for presidents who came after him

I don’t know if the throne of Egypt was so “I don’t know the word” seducing for him to forget those principals and to set rules, destructive rules that turned the president in to a false idol in the land of Egypt

Yes for sure it was so seductive but it was not the throne more the people, the Egyptian people, the tempted Egyptian people who once Amr Ibn El-A’s described in his letter to Omar Ibn Khateb as

“Its people are owned by the one who ruler it {It for Egypt}”

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