Hassan Badi
Moheet
Egypt is finally liberating itself, said Hassan Badi. Not from the Mubarak regime, overthrown last year, but from that regime’s legacy of subservience to the U.S. For 30 years, Egypt was vandalized by America’s “sabotage of all sectors, from agricultural lands to the air to minds.” Now the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces is returning this country to its former glory as an independent state and a leader in the region. The arrest last month of 19 Americans working for civil-society groups is the first victory in the “fierce battle now raging between Egypt and America.” These “so-called human-rights organizations” the Americans were working for played “a destructive and subversive role of the first degree by serving as tools of espionage and sabotage.” No longer. Our new leaders are filled with the nationalism and patriotism that have been missing in public life for so long. The Americans may rail and complain, but they won’t turn us from our new path. In fact, their anger only hardens our resolve. It is just as our great former leader Gamal Abdel Nasser used to say, “When I hear insults from the U.S. or British administration, I know I am following the right path.”
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