Last night the city of Al-Burullus witnessed huge clashes between the citizens and police forces. About 8000 citizen gathered and protested against the governer's decision to distribute Wheat on bakeries instead of the people.
The clashes and its size and severity reminded the people with the clashes of the Mahalla on last 6th of April 2008 .
I think that this is the first big sized protests to be for wheat and bread , Mahalla was originally for workers' right and rise in prices , but this is for Wheat and bread.
People are getting more and more angry for wheat , this reminds me with the French Revolution , strangely no one reads history or learns anything from it , Moshe Dyan was right !!
The Governer of the Kafr El-Sheikh , which Al-Burullus city follows of course denied that there were clashes and said that the protestors were few on TV last night !!??
I do not think that 8000 citizens can be described as few protesters ,even if they protested in Cairo !!??
I am trying to put my hands on photos from there
I think that if there is a revolution it will arise from Behayrah...
ReplyDeleteKafr El Sheikh's cities, towns and villages are amongst of the poorest of Egypt...
There is a reason that the MB has a stronghold in this region....
@N.American Princess , please do not repeat the claims of the NDPians that the MB is behind it , because it is not them , it is the people this time , It has nothing with the MB , the MB are not that strong or capable to lead a revolution despite their popularity
ReplyDelete8,000 is quite a lot, even out of 80,000,000 it's still 1 out of every 10000.
ReplyDeletebut... revolution? i mean, why would they think that someone else could do better than mubarak in this aspect?
sure, he's not a favorite, but to have him replaced will surely not aid economic stability or trade agreements. nobody likes to export their wheat to an unstable market...
maybe they will have a strong influence on mubarak's economic policies... but what can he do better/different?
@arabjew , do not tell me that you believe Mubarak claims to the west that anyone else other than him will be , or even worse the Islamists !!
ReplyDeleteMy dear friend , we want someone to revise the trade agreeements to be in our best interest , we want someone to make us export Wheat instead of importing it
we want someone who believes in democracy not a dictator
what economy stability you are speaking about
this economic stability is for a certian class
a revolution is needed because the defintion of revolution means to change things political,economic and social systems and this what we need in this critical time
the revolution is not always bad
oh, make no mistake: i'm hardly a fan of dictatorships. i can give you an example from my country of origin, where equality and political openness in iraq led to a period of trade bloom when heskel sasson was the finance minister.
ReplyDeletebut... i'm being realistic on the issue, as far as my understanding of the egyptian political situation goes. who could possibly replace mubarak today, aside from MB? what kind of effect will their rule have on civil liberties? tolerance to minorities? relations with world economies?
i'd be happy to know that there is a democratic alternative. is there?
@Arab Jew , no there is no one except Mubarak , MB and some shadow parties but does this make us silent and hopeless on what this dictatorship doing to Egypt and to our people !!??
ReplyDeletewe should not lose hope
@zeinobia,
ReplyDeleteEverything with regards to the political development of the middle east is a source of pessimism for me. If the single multiconfessional-democratic country in the area (lebanon) succumbed to outside manipulations and to its own factions and crumbled, why should i think that israel and the palestinians can have it better in either way, or that there is even a remote chance of success in egypt, syria or iraq?
now, i do take some comfort in blogs trying to make things better. but calling it 'hope' is a bit too much.