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| Small protests in Egypt dispersed by police, Hamas tells members to shut up about it |
| 2019-09-22 |
| [AlAhram] Egypt’s police dispersed on Friday evening limited protests in Downtown Cairo and several other cities following calls to demonstrate against alleged mismanagement of public funds by government administration. Hundreds of protesters marched and hollered poorly rhymed slogans against the government on Friday evening in several cities including Cairo, Alexandria and Damietta on the Mediterranean, Mansoura and Mahalla in the central Nile Delta, and Suez city. The protests on Friday come after a string of recent videos posted by an Egyptian contractor, Mohammed Ali, who says he worked on various construction projecst with state instititutions and currently resides in Spain, made allegations of mismangement of funds under the tenure of President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi. Last week, President El-Sisi told the public that the videos were based on lies and fabrications, stressing that the allegations of corruption were aimed at destabilizing the trust of the people in their state institutions at a time when the government is working to overcome economic challenges and is fighting terrorism. President El-Sisi said that the state has spent EGP 4 trillion in the past several years on projects to develop the economy and benefit ordinary Egyptians. Egyptian private TV channel CBC Extra News showed images of regular traffic flow in Tahrir Square in the early hours of Saturday morning. Haniyeh orders Hamas leaders not to comment on anti-Sisi demos in Egypt [IsraelTimes] Message sent out by Hamas chief comes as Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppressionand disproportionate response... -based terror group has recently seen its ties with Cairo improve, after strain going back to Morsi’s ouster by Sissi. Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... has ordered senior members of the Gaza-based terror group not to publicly comment on rare protests held in Egypt Friday against President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi. Haniyeh sent an audio message to Hamas leaders telling them not to address "any matter connected to Egypt" whatsoever. "Everyone must obey and promise this," he said in the message, according to Israel’s Ynet news site. Hamas and Egypt have worked to repair ties in recent years following the 2013 coup that brought Sissi to power. Hamas, which has historic links to Egypt’s Moslem Brüderbund, enjoyed warm relations with Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi, a top Brotherhood figure who was tossed by the military after a divisive ...politicians call things divisivewhen when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive,they're principled... year in power. The Egyptian government tightened an Israeli-Egyptian blockade on Hamas-ruled Gaza shortly thereafter, but since then there have been signs of a thaw in relations. Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... , the longtime Egyptian ruler whose deposal led to Morsi coming to power in Egypt’s first and only democratic presidential election, has claimed Hamas sent hundreds of fighters across the Gaza border during the 2011 uprising. Hamas has denied the claim. For most of the past decade, Egypt has been a quiet partner with Israel in a blockade on Hamas-ruled Gaza, stifling the economy and largely blocking its 2 million people from moving in and out of the territory. Israel maintains the blockade to prevent Hamas, which is openly committed to destroying Israel, from importing weapons. Egypt, however, has recently moved closer to Hamas and tried unsuccessfully to reconcile it with Fatah, the political party of Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... that was violently ejected from the Gaza Strip by the Islamist terror group in 2007. Cairo has also served as a key mediator between Israel and Hamas amid periodic outbursts of fighting between the two since the start of often violent protests along the Gaza border in March 2018. Earlier this year, Egypt reportedly agreed to permanently reopen the Rafah border crossing with Gaza in exchange for Hamas reining in festivities with Israeli troops along the border. Friday’s protests in the capital Cairo and other Egyptian cities marked a rare public rebuke of Sissi and saw crowds chanting slogans and holding up placards calling for him to step down. At least 74 were arrested overnight, a security source told AFP, with plainclothed police patrolling sidestreets of downtown Cairo. The country effectively banned protests under a 2013 law and a state of emergency is still in full effect. Police fired tear gas and deployed forces in Tahrir Square ‐ the epicenter of the 2011 revolution that unseated long-time autocrat Hosni Mubarak. The protests came on the back of an online call put out by Mohammed Aly, a disgruntled exiled Egyptian businessman, demanding Sissi be toppled. Thousands shared footage on social media documenting the demonstrations that sprang up in several cities including sizeable crowds blocking traffic in Alexandria, al-Mahalla, Damietta, Mansoura and Suez. Many users commented on the curious absence of military personnel and speculated about internal political squabbles between various Egyptian security agencies. Under the rule of general-turned-president Sissi, authorities have launched a broad crackdown on dissidents, jailing thousands of Islamists as well as secular activists and popular bloggers. At the same youth conference where he denied graft allegations, he also warned of the dangers of protesting ‐ a position he has repeatedly taken. He has regularly invoked security and stability as hallmarks of his reign in contrast to the situations in regional hot spots such as Iraq, Libya and Syria. But with his government imposing strict austerity measures since 2016 as part of a $12 billion loan package from the International Monetary Fund, discontent over rising prices has been swelling. Nearly one in three Egyptians live below the poverty line on less than $1.40 a day, according to official figures released in July. Human Rights Watch urged authorities on Saturday to "protect the right" to protest peacefully as well as demanding that those arrested be released. Sisis flew to New York on Friday night where he is scheduled to address the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... General Assembly next week. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 SIS better get his ass in gear. All this corruption and crap still permeates and the State is not getting richer. There are local demands he has not fulfilled and people want to see some action. The timing is wrong for this right now but SISI cannot satisfy demands, He needs to find an out. I like you man, but they need some domestic help. |
| Posted by: newc 2019-09-22 01:09 |