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[ 16/08/2013 - 02:39 PM ]
By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Jerusalem
The rivers of blood now flowing throughout Egypt should be a most eloquent indictment of the criminal Sisi regime, which ousted the first-ever democratically-elected regime in the country.
Indeed, the deliberate indiscriminate murder of unarmed, innocent protesters, and by their own army and government, is an expression of pure evilness that goes beyond the pale of what is humanly acceptable.
It can be compared with the worst crimes in human history.
The Bosnian Srebrenica massacre of 1996 and similar crimes against humanity come to mind when considering what has been occurring in Egypt in recent days and weeks.
This is why Sisi and cohorts ought to be treated as war criminals, very much like Slobodan Milocivic, Vojislav Šešelj and Radovan Karadžic, to mention just a few names.
Failing to do justice for the victims and their families amounts to giving the murderers in Egypt a green light to commit further atrocities and spill more innocent blood in the streets of Cairo and other Egyptian cities.
More to the point, the international community should utterly disregard the plethora of lies being propagated by the Egyptian regime's mouthpieces. I am not going to even mention these obscene, big lies lest I inadvertently dignify them.
In the final analysis, nefarious murderers are also despicable liars par excellence. Indeed, how can we expect child killers and cutthroats who open fire at innocent people for the purpose of killing them to tell the truth? These animals must have stripped themselves of humanity long before they did what they did.
The fact that they murdered and maimed thousands in broad daylight and without any remorse or feeling of guilt underscores the bestial or subhuman nature of the murderers and those who gave them orders to open fire.
Feckless response
So far, the response of the international community toward the ongoing massacres in Egypt has been utterly inadequate, to put it rather mildly.
The western response has been quite tepid and confined to harmless verbal denunciations. This is probably due to historical western indifference to the shedding of Muslim blood in general.
After all, Islamists, and Muslims in general, are not and have never been the West's favorite allies. Indeed, it would be sufficiently safe to argue that the West has always viewed Muslims as cultural and ideological opponents rather than friends or potential friends. Hence, it would be really naïve to think that Muslim lives are much of a concern to Western powers.
Just compare these ignominious western reactions to the massacres in Egypt with the strong condemnation to recent deaths of a few protesters in Turkey, or in Iran a few years ago, and you will detect the shocking western hypocrisy and moral duplicity.
In fact, one can go as far as saying that the utter fecklessness of the Western response to what is happening in Egypt represents a kind of tacit encouragement to the criminal government and coup makers in Cairo to commit further crimes against humanity.
Sisi and his murderous gang must have been carefully watching the shocking weakness of the international community response to the Nazi-like crimes of the Syrian regime, which has been tantamount to tolerating these crimes.
This sterile international reaction to the Syrian genocide must have made Egypt's nefarious dictator calculate that he could make rivers of blood flow through Egypt with total impunity.
Sisi must have rationalized that if Bashar el-Assad of Syria could destroy his own country and murder at least 100,000 Syrians. with total impunity, why couldn't he (Sisi) slaughter a few thousand Egyptians, also with total impunity?
There is no doubt that Sisi and cohorts will eventually be consigned to the dustbin of history in the company of notorious criminals and evil murderous dictators. But this is not the main question facing us now. The real question confronting every man's conscience now is the shocking flaccidity and leniency characterizing the western response to the ongoing massacres in Egypt.
The west is not that powerless as its manifestly impotent response would suggest. Egypt is effectively a beggar nation, thanks to decades of military dictatorships, and can hardly survive without Western handouts. The Egyptian army, which is being utilized to murder its own sons and daughters, can barley survive without American aid and remain a force to be reckoned with, especially at the regional level.
In any case, the US Administration should be made to understand in case it has forgotten that the very wherewithal with which the 2500 Egyptians were killed and other thousands maimed and injured since Wednesday was supplied by the U.S.
Hence, failure to criminalize Sisi and cohorts must be interpreted as definitive complicity in the hideous carnage now being played out in Egypt.
The Egyptian people will not forgive Washington and London and other Western capitals their indecisive stance vis-à-vis the Nazi-like regime in Cairo.
Needless to say, one day this cowardly and immoral stance will boomerang on the Americans and Europeans.
Future Egyptian generations will learn that the Murderous Sisi regime wouldn't and couldn't have been able to commit these colossal crimes against his own people had it not been for tacit Western encouragement.
Certainly, the West could choose to do the morally right thing now by cutting all military and economic aid to the military junta and asking the International Criminal Court (ICC) and International Court of Justice in The Hague to declare Sisi and cohorts war criminals.
At the very least, such pro-active measures should make Sisi and cohorts think twice before committing further atrocities against the Egyptian people.
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By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Jerusalem
The rivers of blood now flowing throughout Egypt should be a most eloquent indictment of the criminal Sisi regime, which ousted the first-ever democratically-elected regime in the country.
Indeed, the deliberate indiscriminate murder of unarmed, innocent protesters, and by their own army and government, is an expression of pure evilness that goes beyond the pale of what is humanly acceptable.
It can be compared with the worst crimes in human history.
The Bosnian Srebrenica massacre of 1996 and similar crimes against humanity come to mind when considering what has been occurring in Egypt in recent days and weeks.
This is why Sisi and cohorts ought to be treated as war criminals, very much like Slobodan Milocivic, Vojislav Šešelj and Radovan Karadžic, to mention just a few names.
Failing to do justice for the victims and their families amounts to giving the murderers in Egypt a green light to commit further atrocities and spill more innocent blood in the streets of Cairo and other Egyptian cities.
More to the point, the international community should utterly disregard the plethora of lies being propagated by the Egyptian regime's mouthpieces. I am not going to even mention these obscene, big lies lest I inadvertently dignify them.
In the final analysis, nefarious murderers are also despicable liars par excellence. Indeed, how can we expect child killers and cutthroats who open fire at innocent people for the purpose of killing them to tell the truth? These animals must have stripped themselves of humanity long before they did what they did.
The fact that they murdered and maimed thousands in broad daylight and without any remorse or feeling of guilt underscores the bestial or subhuman nature of the murderers and those who gave them orders to open fire.
Feckless response
So far, the response of the international community toward the ongoing massacres in Egypt has been utterly inadequate, to put it rather mildly.
The western response has been quite tepid and confined to harmless verbal denunciations. This is probably due to historical western indifference to the shedding of Muslim blood in general.
After all, Islamists, and Muslims in general, are not and have never been the West's favorite allies. Indeed, it would be sufficiently safe to argue that the West has always viewed Muslims as cultural and ideological opponents rather than friends or potential friends. Hence, it would be really naïve to think that Muslim lives are much of a concern to Western powers.
Just compare these ignominious western reactions to the massacres in Egypt with the strong condemnation to recent deaths of a few protesters in Turkey, or in Iran a few years ago, and you will detect the shocking western hypocrisy and moral duplicity.
In fact, one can go as far as saying that the utter fecklessness of the Western response to what is happening in Egypt represents a kind of tacit encouragement to the criminal government and coup makers in Cairo to commit further crimes against humanity.
Sisi and his murderous gang must have been carefully watching the shocking weakness of the international community response to the Nazi-like crimes of the Syrian regime, which has been tantamount to tolerating these crimes.
This sterile international reaction to the Syrian genocide must have made Egypt's nefarious dictator calculate that he could make rivers of blood flow through Egypt with total impunity.
Sisi must have rationalized that if Bashar el-Assad of Syria could destroy his own country and murder at least 100,000 Syrians. with total impunity, why couldn't he (Sisi) slaughter a few thousand Egyptians, also with total impunity?
There is no doubt that Sisi and cohorts will eventually be consigned to the dustbin of history in the company of notorious criminals and evil murderous dictators. But this is not the main question facing us now. The real question confronting every man's conscience now is the shocking flaccidity and leniency characterizing the western response to the ongoing massacres in Egypt.
The west is not that powerless as its manifestly impotent response would suggest. Egypt is effectively a beggar nation, thanks to decades of military dictatorships, and can hardly survive without Western handouts. The Egyptian army, which is being utilized to murder its own sons and daughters, can barley survive without American aid and remain a force to be reckoned with, especially at the regional level.
In any case, the US Administration should be made to understand in case it has forgotten that the very wherewithal with which the 2500 Egyptians were killed and other thousands maimed and injured since Wednesday was supplied by the U.S.
Hence, failure to criminalize Sisi and cohorts must be interpreted as definitive complicity in the hideous carnage now being played out in Egypt.
The Egyptian people will not forgive Washington and London and other Western capitals their indecisive stance vis-à-vis the Nazi-like regime in Cairo.
Needless to say, one day this cowardly and immoral stance will boomerang on the Americans and Europeans.
Future Egyptian generations will learn that the Murderous Sisi regime wouldn't and couldn't have been able to commit these colossal crimes against his own people had it not been for tacit Western encouragement.
Certainly, the West could choose to do the morally right thing now by cutting all military and economic aid to the military junta and asking the International Criminal Court (ICC) and International Court of Justice in The Hague to declare Sisi and cohorts war criminals.
At the very least, such pro-active measures should make Sisi and cohorts think twice before committing further atrocities against the Egyptian people.
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