I can’t believe the shift our foreign policy has began to take after the defeat of Farouk Hosni in the UNESCO’s elections , it seems that he is more important than we think. Since his loss and the Egyptian regime which has been considered to a very near time a friend to Israel is showing its ugly face to our Israeli friends.
The national press is speaking about the successful ugly attempts of Israel and its 
Labévière is speaking about a battle operated by 10 Israeli Mossad agents inside the UNESCO headquarter !! With my all respect it seems that the standards and goals of Mossad are going to from low to lower because this dangerous cells managed to make the Bulgarian win by 4 votes only !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! “You can read the summary in English here and the original article in French here”
With my all respect to Labévière , I have my doubts to believe these claims.
The national press also kept speaking on how prejudice the UNESCO and the UN towards the Muslims, Arabs and Africans despite the fact Amadou Mahter M’Bow was the first Muslim and African director general of the organization for 13 years unlike what Hosni and his media want you to believe.
Mohamed El-Baradei has been the director general for IAEA for 12 years and he is the one who is stepping down now after very powerful role in the world politics in the past 12 years.For you information Egypt did not nominate him to this position on the contrary the regime in Egypt nominated Mustafa El-Faky for the position. 
You want more bright great example for successful Egyptian, Muslim, Arab and Africans in the UN , well you got late Nadia Younis “May God bless her soul” , Mohamed Shaaban and Ahmed Fawzy and of course you got Boutres Ghali as Egyptian Christian , I do not know who we need more !!
Hosni also is speaking over and over in the nationalist newspapers “which used to despise him” that he lost the bid because he would fight the Judaizing of East Jerusalem from the UNESCO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Excuse me !!?? As if Hosni would stop anything , already did the Egyptian regime and the rest of the Arab regimes do something serious to stop the on-going and illegal judaizing of East Jerusalem !!!
For God sake he did not speak about East Jerusalem and its current Judaizing in his campaign as far as I remember !!?? Or were it his surprise to us !!??
Anyhow back to the regime and its policies which suddenly changed , of course what happened to Hala Mustafa some contributed to the loss of Hosni , despite it happened during the race itself.
Just after the announcement of Hosni’s defeat , we were suddenly surprised by a historical Egypt court rule against Israel to pay $10 Million as a compensation to the family of late Egyptian soldier who was killed in 2004 by Israeli fire , this is a historical court rule which surprised me because according to experience all the lawsuits against Israel are adjourned !!!
Despite I am so happy for this just court order , I wonder if it is more about politics and Farouk Hosni’s defeat than about justice. I will not deny that I wish the court rules similar verdicts in similar cases for other poor soldiers and POWs who were killed in a cold bold
It saddens that after years of adjournment suddenly the court orders Israel to compensate that family just because of Farouk Hosni and not because it was the right of that poor family which had to burry their son secretly by the orders of the ministry of interior in the middle of night.
I am truly amazed at how much Farouk Hosni is too important that we suddenly began to adjust our policies towards Israel because of his defeat which was going to happen either ways because he does not deserve it !!
We leave Israel and go to Europe , especially France , I do not believe that this issue with the Louvre was because why suddenly Zahi Hawas remembered those pieces now and what about the other pieces all over Europe and the other pieces being smuggled everyday and the past years since the 1980s , when Hosni became a minister !!
For God sake our ancient Egyptian treasures are being sold in Christie’s and we are just watching , even our modern art treasures are being sold there !!!!!!!
Even our relations with Iran seems to get warm after a silly cold war !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It makes so sad to see such a person after all what he had done all those years having such importance
By the way Farouk Hosni is still hope to become the director general of UNESCO, Check his official website !!
Mohamed Shaaban, literally runs the day to day ins and outs of the UN in NY, as the SG is the titular figure head! we here in NY are proud of the outstanding job that he is doing!
ReplyDeleteBoutrous Ghali set a bad example btw and he was hated by UN staff.
ReplyDeleteWe got warmer to Iran bec the West decided to hold talks with Iran i.e. we had to shift our direction and you can see how KSA suddenly warmed up to Syria as well and there are rumors of a new MENA arrangement.
In all honesty, Ive been following news about Egypt's attempts to get back items that were illegally acquired and Hawas has been doing a lot on that front, so, Im more inclined to believe the demand was there before the Hosni thing but may be the anger towards the French made Egypt put more pressure and France cave in. Also, legally, not all items should be returned only those that were illegally taken out bec it used to be the case that missions working in Egy have the right to take some items and also if I remember correctly sadly UNESCO rules could render an item a national heritage of the country where it has been displayed for a certain number of years and I think that is the case with the Rosetta Stone at the British Museum. In all cases, what Egypt did with getting back some of its stuff is very important because developing countries have been fighting for years to have a better international system that would allow them to get back items they lost during the colonial era.
@Farouk
ReplyDeleteand unfortunately we do not know anything about him in Egypt :(
@anonymous,I know that what Dr.Hawas is doing seems good but it is not that much compared to the size of artifacts which were stolen from Egypt in the past and we should return it , in fact our history is being sold in auctions internationally and we are doing nothing