THE GAZA WAR AND THE END OF THE ZIONIST MYTH

The Gaza War and the End of the Myth!!
Myth is a symbolic narrative originating in oral cultures passed on by word of mouth and kept in our memories. They are generated collectively and decimated in our cultures not by one event or an individual. They are national traits that a group of people or nation believe, mostly exaggerated and self-grandiose to keep national coherence and set them apart from the rest—One of the myths that I grew up with back in the days in Egypt is that “Egypt is the mother of the world,” we thought Egypt is in the center of the world. I came to America 40 years ago to find out another myth, America is “The father of the world.” Myths are hard to create and hard to get rid of, even if reality says otherwise.
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THE EGYPTIAN THUGS, BELTAGEYAH

and sometimes they come on horseback

            Welcome to post revolution Egypt the wonderland of “Baltagiya”. The word Baltagiya (thugs/mercenaries) comes from the Turkish Balta (axe) followed by the regional postfix “-jia” or “-gia” , means axe-wielders. And that what they do, they axe and disrupt social activities for higher. They don’t have a political views or platform, they are anti views of any sorts, and their platform is always the street. Something like the Tea party here, they are not for anything, but against everything. Baltagiya have long been used by members of Egypt’s ruling party since the Turkish ruler in Egypt, but especially during Mubarak 30 years of dictatorship, there were his goon-squads that has been used for years to intimidate Egyptians to stay in line and behave, a trained hired thugs that the Mubarak regime had utilized effectively and efficiently  to make sure election goes the Mubarak way. Once the rotten regime was toppled on February 11th, and the Mubarak security apparatus vanished from the street, Egyptians were free for the first time and the fear factor was broken, as for the trained Baltagiya, almost one million of them, the last hired job was on 28th of January, 3 days after the start of the revolution, they showed up in Tahrir Square in the most bazaar seen of the revolution, at “the battle of the Camel”, as it was coined by Egyptians, where at the heightening of the revolution,  while Mubarak regime  was losing ground to the millions of protestors, desperate alone after his regular police appended him, the Army stepped in to fill the vacuum but stayed neutral, so the bankrupt Mubarak regime showed their ingenuous act; sending a few thousands of  “Baltagiya” on Camels and horses backs to Tahrir Square to intimidate the protestors, about five millions of them were there that night. It didn’t work, protesters determination to topple the corrupt regime was much stronger than the Baltagiya willingness  to get paid overtime, after a growling bloody confrontation the Baltagiya finally vanished with the Mubarak regime, the Military refused to get involved and stayed neutral, for that alone people admired their Military the banner of “The people and the Army one hand”  was raised in Tahrir, there was a short honeymoon between the pro democracy protesters and the Military, and the Supreme Council of Armed forces (SCAF) as it was called, became the defector governing body. A few month later the Baltagiya are resurfaced again everywhere, as the relationship between the Military who is admired by most Egyptian and the “Thouwars”, young revolutionaries got complicated, The Military lately has been trying desperately to discredit  the “Thouwar”,  those hard core protestors who started the revolution, and still on a general strike in Tahrir Square since the revolution. “We are determined to see real change” explained one of the organizer, We are not leaving until all our demands are met” he declares in their almost daily press conference, most of all a speedy trial of Mubarak and his regime”.  He added.  The Military not known for their democratic and sharing power appetite, they went on a mission to discredit Tahrir protestors and turn them from “Thouwar” to Baltageyah. Al Mesery El Youm a private daily paper in Egypt that known for its independency reported on April 22nd, that “Most Egyptians would agree that the 25 January revolution deserves a place in the Egyptian Museum — the most prominent and well-established museum in the country, and a fixture in Tahrir Square, the center of the protests. But allegations that the ruling armed forces used the museum building to incarcerate, violently interrogate, and abuse pro-democracy protesters has indelibly changed the site’s history. Is the legacy of the Egyptian Museum, once the celebrated home of Egypt’s most prized ancient artifacts, now a “torture chamber”.

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KILL ALL THE MONSTERS!!

The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.”
Antonio Gramsci

A few weeks ago, a 71-year-old man stabbed a 6-year-old boy 26 times and injured his mother while shouting, “You Muslims Must Die.” The victim, Wadea Al-Fayoume, was a Palestinian American who loved his family, soccer, and basketball. The alleged killer, Joseph Czuba, was not a stranger or a distraught drifter; he was the landlord of the building where the young Wadea lived, had a good relationship with the boy’s family, even building a treehouse for Wadea, bringing him toys, and allowing him to swim in a makeshift pool. Czuba, reported, was an avid listener of conservative right-wing radio shows that covered the Israeli-Hamas war; there is no such thing as right/left-wing Media; the American media loses its wings and head when it comes to covering Israeli atrocities.

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