It was unusual scene but it could be more unusual if all those people who said on the Facebook in "free the Nile group" they would participate in the protest did actually show up but thanks to another two idiot men in the parliament who called the police to use live ammunition against protesters they were afraid to participate !!!
I really respect and support the first two men who showed a lot of responsibility and understanding and I believe we should do like them , we should protest as people considering the fact that the ministry of Foreign affairs and the ministry of irrigation and water resources have failed to reach a solution that suit every country on the Nile banks for God sake !!!!
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| Free the Nile by Ali Shabaan |
Egypt's Nile share fiasco is the latest fiascos of Mubarak regime and it is one hell of a fiasco , sure Mubarak is leaving one hell of a legacy !!
Several news sources are claiming that Omar Soliman has took the Nile river share file just like the Palestinian file and Sudanese file "as if he were not involved before" , well I hope that he reaches to a solution somehow whether by his legendary diplomacy or by the GIS dirty work !!
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| Free Nile , Do not listen to Israel by Heba Khalifa |
By way these two concerned young men are called Mohamed Kandeel and Ali Sutohi.
Israel must be blamed for everything.
ReplyDeleteThat slogan "free Nile" is seriously and dangrously misleading. Contrary to the impression it may give, it is not a "political" call to freeing the Nile from a domination of a country but rather an "economic" call to consider the Nile waters as a commodity to be bought by whoever pays the money. The call is not new and dated back to early 90s when proposed by Yusuf Walli to the Nile Basin Countries. The call was originally initiated by Israel to serve its own objective to get Nile waters thru a canal across Sinai. Israel promised Walli that it will use its influence to make the NBCs to pass it. However, the whole plot was rejected by Sudan for the sole sake of Egypt which is now getting 56bnCM for free. According to this concept, Egypt would have to pay for all its water requirements which wiill make Egypt more dependant on Israel (& US)funding. By the way, Sudan could benefit from such plan in the long run when it can exploit its immense run-off, surface and undergound waters.
ReplyDeleteThe showing up of this slogan again indicates to me that Israel is making another attempt capitalizing on the failure of the Egyptian authorities to work out a proposal acceptable to the NBCs- which could have been an easy job had Egypt stopped involving Israel - and stopped the way it is under looking its African partners.
By the last phrase in my above comment i.e Egypt undermining NBCs, I was refering to the second proposal offered by Egypt some few years ago - not during tenure of Yousuf Wali. Beleave it or not, Egypt offered the sharing of the entire water resources in the basin including rains, streams, brooks etc. The NBCs surely got angry but I laughed.
ReplyDeleteoh my god just 2 men it is important it should be more than that
ReplyDeletei think it is one of most dangerous issues now it could turned to war
Are the chickens coming home to roost?
ReplyDeleteOnce again you 'must' revisit the history of the 1959 Agreement and the collusion of the first military administration of Sudan with AbdelNasser's plans for the construction of the Aswan Dam and the new 1959 allocation regime.
The previous civilian government had rejected the agreement.
What kind of example is given to other Nile Basin states when Egypt's supposedly closest nation, has undergone immense losses at the expense of 'cooperation' with Egypt?!
Until and unless Egypt decides to revist itself and its dealings with others, especially those close to home, alarm bells will continue to ring and nothing will change.
Zeinobia you keep mentioning General Suleiman - so what do you think he is capable of doing?
I recommend that the Egyptian government withdraw its troops that are illegally occuppying Halayeb since 1995, and then the Sudanese (at the popular, and not just at the offical level) might have a different stance.
But for the moment, I don't believe that there is much sympathy for Egypt.