Now it is either Egyptian “unfortunately” Farouk Hosni and Bulgarian Irina Bokova after their tie in yesterday’s fourth round in UNESCO elections for 29-29 votes.
The last 48 hours were tense for Hosni , after all what he got 4 votes compared to Bokova who got 16 votes. The United States and France for sure are standing behind her along with the European countries that believe Hosni does not deserve this important cultural position.
The international press continues its attack on Hosni who always felt that the national press was attacking him , let him taste the really media attack is , French Le Monde attacked him and NY Times introduced a new disturbing unknown fact to the Western reader about Hosni : While being the Egyptian cultural attaché in Rome, he helped to organize the escape from Italy in 1985 of the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro !!
This fact was taken from an Elaph’s website article that I can’t determine whether it is with or against him.I believe this last so-called revelation can really cost him the UNESCO chair. Of course there must be some corrections to be made here , he was not our Egyptian cultural attaché ,he was heading the Egyptian academy in Rome and he did not know whom he was going to host in the academy when the order came to him from Cairo to prepare couple of rooms but sooner he realized to know those guests included three wanted Palestinians along with Egyptian commandos and GIS secret service men during that crisis. Unfortunately I can’t consider him an accomplice according to the American-Israeli standards or a hero according to nationalist standards because he was ordered , he did not volunteer , he did not have much a choice if we are speaking in a realistic way; I am not defending him heavens forbid but the secret services men would stay in the academy hostel with or without his approval and do not tell me that this does not happen in any country in the world !!
Hosni is not anti-Semitic , this is not his sin , his sins , his weaknesses that prevent him really from that position is that he did not contribute in 20 years for real in our Egyptian culture !!
I fully agree with that conclusion!
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I am glad to tell you that he lost :)
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