Public, taken from the website and translated www.realpolitik.tv French, an article by Bernard Lugan, a leading African experts.
His analysis, which does not fit - nor will it - in the assessment of the ultimate causes of the crisis, however, is careful in revealing the commonplace that even on this occasion, have filled the news of the dramatic events that are upsetting Egypt.
It should give pause to those who take sides unconditionally on the side of the square anti-Mubarak, forgetting that what is at stake is not only the elevation of a material portion of the people but certainly considerable geopolitical interests that move, and not so deep, behind the facade of the struggle for "freedom."
beginning with those of Islamic fundamentalism, with which they are carriers, with due caution, the Muslim Brotherhood, to those of the United States where it now is being called for the liberalization of about half of the activities of the country, managed statist army.
and we already know from experience that behind that magic word "democracy", before which so many fall enraptured, stir more often cloudier and interests confessed.
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BERNARD LUGANA: REFLECTIONS ON THE EGYPTIAN CRISIS
After Tunisia, Egypt has run so inflamed. Forgetting the maxim 'neither blame nor praise, story', this golden rule of their profession, journalists has been made for the umpteenth time, the spokesman for the protesters. Literally agony in front of their actions, have spared no superlatives in describing the "people" Egyptian unanimously turned against the "dictator" Mubarak.
Everything has run upside down in their little world of certainties and approximations limitasto when Mubarak's partisans are in turn took to the streets, and mass. Now there were "two nations"! This finding had nothing to disturb their consciences formatted. For a short time the explanation, however, was easy: contromanifestanti the police and the cops were hired, and then - horror! - Discovered that they were inhabitants of come from poorer neighborhoods.
Thus, the most deprived dared to spoil the great celebration of democracy which journalists had come to do the spokesman. Indeed, even more miserable they dared, crime of crimes, take it to reporters, unaware that in France, the untouchable caste is a state within a state in front of which rise and fall down the most powerful. Will have at least remembered their stay in Cairo on the banks of the Nile that the reference points are not those of the banks of the Seine and the trips are much more training that the schools of journalism. These ignorant
have not seen that the Egyptian political life is organized around three major forces. The first, which appears asking for the departure of President Mubarak and for which they have so sweet eyes, is, as in Tunisia, made up of people who suffer from hunger, it is in some way "privileged" that can offer the luxury to reclaim democracy. The second is that the Muslim Brotherhood; persecuted for decades and now sheltered behind the useful idiots in office, this organization tries to reintrodursi political chessboard to impose its law. The third force that no "special envoy" has ever heard is that living in disadvantaged neighborhoods - so far from the hotel Hilton, spartan headquarters of the journalists "combative" - \u200b\u200bor in miserable villages West Nile, out of sight of tourists. And 'that the underpaid fellahs, Nasser of this small people from more than skin deep patriotism that rejects both the cosmopolitan bourgeoisie which looks to Washington and bearded men who would restore Egypt to the X th century. Are the men who flew to the rescue of the Rais Mubarak in which they see, rightly or wrongly, this is not the point, a successor, albeit distant, of Colonel Nasser.
last note: while the class poliktica French (but not only that: ndt) requested President Mubarak to leave power, Russian President Medvedev held a long telephone conversation with him, assuring him that he would oppose against foreign interference. On one hand, Pavlov's dogs who lift the second leg that pulls the air and the other a statesman who knew the subtleties of the 'mysterious East'
Bernard Lugan
www.bernard-lugan.com/
author of "Histoire de l'Egypte des origines à nos jours" Éditions du Rocher, 2002.
University Africanist, Bernard Lugan deals with African issues in the long run, starting from real data, ie the land and people. For him, speak of Africa and del'Africa, and Africans, then of the peoples and ethnic groups, and non-African, both vague and reduced expression. After more than thirty years of experience of land and of university education in Africa, he was professor in particular for ten years at the National University of Rwanda, is currently conducting many activities: edition of a Africanist magazine spread on the Internet (www.bernard-lugan.com) direction of a seminar at CID (War College), advisor to companies operating in Africa. He is also an expert for the UN at the ICTR (International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda) based in Arusha, Tanzania.
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