It seems the only "serious measure" undertaken was the
ouster of Morsi. With him gone, the
military engaged, and the poring in of Saudi money, the dam project will
proceed unhindered; blood-diluted Nile
water will flow to the enemies of the Egyptian in sink with a current of
jubilation by the crowds who 'can't see the forest for the trees'.
[1] During the early years of the Cold War, American spies
in Cairo "engaged in an operation to show Soviet
ungodliness" by circulating anti-Islamic literature and
attributing it to the Soviets. When the
nationalist Gamal Abdel Nasser refused to become America's
man in Egypt,
CIA looked for a "religious spellbinder" who could tip the scales of
Arab opinion and "divert the growing stream of anti-American
hostility." The intent was to
"groom a messiah who would start out in Egypt, and then spread his word to
Africans and perhaps other Third World peoples" in order to "immunize them
against false prophets," namely Nasser [1] .
Although no 'messiah' was groomed, the CIA did co-opt leaders of the Islamic
revival movement known as the Ikhwan, or Muslim Brotherhood, and "the seeds of
a furtive relationship between the CIA
and the Ikhwan were planted." In the
years ahead, the agency would become a de-facto accomplice of the Muslim
Brotherhood and its "terrorist" activities [1] .
[i] Frances Stonor Saunders. The
Cultural Cold War: the CIA and the World of Arts and Letters . New York : New Press 2000.
[ii] "Will Nile water go to Israel? North
Sinai pipelines and the politics of scarcity", Middle East Policy (Sep 1997): 113-124.
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