Why am I saying this? Well... check out what the Egyptian press is saying about Mehlis' report:
Egyptian newspaper al-Akhbar denounced on Tuesday "claims and sayings," repeated by some Lebanese newspapers over Syria.
In a column, the paper noted that the timing of repeating these claims is a "conspiratorial fatal timing," that came a few hours before the UN Security Council session on the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.
"Do the [rioting and provocations against Syria in Lebanon, which also deteriorate the situation in Egypt by raising sectarianism], come in the framework of the so called policy of creative chaos that some have talked about in Washington," the paper asked.
Oh yeah! This is the kind of journalism and logic that the Egyptian press offers the Arab world and beyond. The exact same type that claimed that 9/11 was a conspiracy that was carried out by the "US Mukhabarat." Egyptians! From now on, everytime somebody makes a dumb comment, I'm gonna tell him that he's such an Egyptian! I've had enough of the nonsense that comes out of that country!
As for our other favorite Arab countries, go read the article to find out what they have published in their propaganda (oops, sorry, I meant news) papers.
6 comments:
It's OK Raja,
If the Arab gvmts/press/mainstream intellectuals ( I repeat myself) are against you, you must be on the right track.
Now they also have an additional source besides Tishreen and Al-Ahram. It's called Syria Comment!
And I love how Egypt's sectarianism is Lebanon's fault! I love how all these countries who have serious sectarian problems, like Syria and Egypt, love to bash Lebanon (and now Iraq) on sectarianism, meanwhile it is only in Lebanon (and Iraq is on its way) that everyone is represented in Parliament (and even in cabinet to a certain extent), and not treated like a second class citizen, like the Copts are in Egypt, or where all power is in the hands of a kleptocratic family of thugs like in Syria.
Mona el-Tahawi laments Egypt on this very issue.
As long as Saudi and the Gulf are on the side of Lebanon, nothing else really matters.
If Egypt stopped thinking ideologically, they would start pressuring the Lebanese government to changed the Syrian sponsored laws that limit the number of Egyptians who can work in Lebanon. Egyptians build practically everything in Jordan, and supposedly work for less than Syrian workers.
Lebanese businessmen would happily employ cheaper laborers from a country that stopped oppressing Lebanon in 1970.
At least things have evolved. When I was a student (at IC) my communist friends used to drop themselves up in their own "Charger RT" (in case your're too young to know, Chargers were what we called Muscle Cars, more american than that does not exist).
Mike
Paris
I believe that we shouldn't blame anybody for what their leaders do.. the whole world is based on ditatorship.
We also must have some respect for our Egyptian brothers. Man, these guys did miracles in Sina, and you know what I'm talking about... Barlif.
I also respect your point, but I think that we shouldn't waist our time blaming each other the whole time.
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