With the stunning landslide Hamas election win in the Palestinian territories, one has to wonder how come Egypt can’t hold a free election. If there was free election in Egypt, I have no doubt that the Muslim Brotherhood would win in a landslide similar to Hamas’s win. My respect to the Palestinian people grew tremendously because they managed to hold a relatively free election even though I may not agree with Hamas’s ideology.
Now the plot thickens, let’s see how the world and Israel going to react to that. It will be interesting to say the least.
What a disappointing game today and a waste of my valuable time. Bad performance by Egypt, they seemed content with the tie for reasons that are beyond me. We’re closer now to elimination specially if we lose to Ivory Cost on Saturday which I expect will happen and Morocco wins its game against Libya.
Ahmad Fathi wasted a sure opportunity in the first half and we were saved from defeat by good goal keeping by Al Hadari.
Well I hope my prediction don’t turn true after all.
Yesterday was Election Day in Canada and the Conservative Part won but not by a big margin.
“Final results for the 308-seat House showed Conservatives with 124 seats; Liberals with 103; the Bloc Quebecois with 51, New Democratic Party with 29; and one seat to an Independent.”
The new prime minister is Stephen Harper. I don’t like the Conservative party as it took Canada into a deep recession 12 years ago, However change is always welcome, and when a government stays in power for too long corruption takes place. With such a slim majority this government may not survive long without forming an alliance with the BQ since I doubt the NDP care for a collation with the Conservatives.
Now that’s what I call an election, not last month Egyptian fiasco.
One of my favorite Egyptian singers. Her name is Sherine. From last Friday’s Star Academy Prime. Her live performance is not so good as I prefer her album versions better, but her looks makes up for that, I think.
I am glad that my prediction is not coming true, after today’s win, Egypt chance of qualifying for the quarter final looks good. I think another win should suffice. I’m disappointed about the playing field condition though in the newly renovated Cairo Stadium. It seems that they forgot to fix the turf. There are many spots without green grass with visible holes. They should fix it with some sod before the next game.
The organization does not seem to be all that well either. The Moroccan team could not practice in the stadium the other day because the Ivory coast team was training at the same time, and it was suppose to be without fans but there was 5000 plus spectators watching.
Anyway go Egypt go., I hope you can make it to the finals and maybe win it all. Next game for the pharaohs will be against Morocco on Tuesday
Looking at tomorrow’s Al Wafd newspaper , I am disappointed to see no commentaries mentioning the coup in the party as if it is non of their business even though it headlined the first page. If columnists don’t talk about it, then who will. Editors who write daily columns should be free to voice their opinion and should not be such cowards. Abbas Tarabeely has no principle he strongly agreed with Noman Gomaa, now he seems to follow Abaza.
I wonder if those editors don’t want to voice their opinion until the dust settles so they know which team to follow and don’t get in trouble by writing the wrong thing if things don’t go their way. Gullible me, I thought “YES men” are only in government run newspapers, but I was wrong, they seem to be everywhere these days.
The Egyptian actress Soad Nasr went to ‘The Golf’ private hospital in Cairo to undergo a simple liposuction procedure and ended up in a Coma. It seems that the anesthetic doctor overdid his work. It is unfortunate that this kind of negligence happens so often in Egypt that you start to wonder if these doctors are qualified or at least understand the basics of medicine. I heard so many true horror stories about faulty health care in Egypt. Many Egyptian doctors should not be allowed to practice medicine. It all stems from a corrupt medicine education that is based on the principle that “a son of a doctor is a doctor” regardless of his/her aptitudes. Free hospitals are only a placeholder until death. Private hospitals operate without any supervision. They also charge a fortune.
So if you are in Egypt or planning to be there, avoid getting sick and never ever undergo surgery there or you might die young or get in a coma like “Soad Nasr”. Just stay healthy! (if you can)
I am glad to hear about the rebellion in Al Wafd. I always thought that Noaman Gomaa is an idiot who lacks necessary leadership skills who destroyed the party’s popularity. He also made lots of enemies like Ayman Nour. Hopefully the new leadership would be more responsive to the Egyptian pulse and bring back the confidence in the party.
The African Cup starts Friday in Cairo. As much as I wish that Egypt wins the tournament, I predict a first round exit for the Pharaohs. I also predict the final to be between Cameroon and Nigeria and that Cameroon would win after extra time.
Sharon Meets Arafat’s Fate Isn’t it ironic that Sharon fate will probably end up being similar to Arafat’s. I never really liked either for different reasons of course. I didn’t like Arafat, because he missed the opportunity to have a lasting peace with Israel back during the Clinton administration and because he stole the Palestinian people money and sent it abroad to his wife in Paris so she can shop till she drop. He could not take critical decisions that could have improved the condition of the Palestinian people.
As for Sharon I don’t like him because he ordered the killing and destruction of thousands innocent Palestinians and caused lots of suffering for many people without just cause.
I hope that our pharaoh can learn an important lesson, that no matter how much power and might you may have now you’ll eventually die and loose everything, so you better be good now or face the consequence later in the afterlife.
Who is accountable for last week Sudanese massacre that resulted in 27 dead most of them are children in Cairo. Is it the Egyptian government and its police brutality? Is it the poor Sudanese refugees who have no shelter, no weapons, no supporters and no body who cares about them? Or is it the UN with its corrupt agencies?
No one is taking the blame. The government controlled Egyptian press accused and insulted the Sudanese refugees and called them filthy blacks with AIDS. It is surprising to know that many Egyptians share the same point of view but I definitely disagree I think that those Egyptians are racist, hopefully the Egyptian majority share my opinion. The Sudanese government doesn’t care about the refugees. The UN refugee agency suspended talks with the refugees. The Egyptian government grew impatiently about the standoff and decided to end it without regard for human life. The Sudanese refugees thought that the government will not do such a thing ( what a wishful thinking). At the end, no one is taking responsibility over the massacre.
It is clear in my opinion that the Egyptian government is ultimately accountable for the massacre of Cairo. The government failed miserably to end the standoff peacefully, they failed to guarantee the safety of the innocent Sudanese refugees. It is another blunder of the Egyptian regime which ended the year of a very sad note
Well here we go again , another new year which I hope will be better than the previous one. On the personal level last year was great but for Egypt, it was not. We start this year with sadness because of all the bad things that happened last year in Egypt. After a promising start with the intention of changing the constitution to allow for presidential election instead of rigged referendum. The hope for change was short lived after the new constitution draft revealed many restriction on hopeful candidates and as it became clearer, we realized that it was all a charade; there will not be a peaceful change without an uphill struggle. Apparently freedom requires a strong will from the masses which is currently not present in Egypt, because the people are spending all their efforts just to get by, they have no time for a luxury called freedom. And when somebody fights for it he is destroyed by the system until he surrenders and joins the herd like in the case of Ayman Nour. Read this article it is really good.
I don’t think this year will be better for Egypt. I predict that things will keep getting worse until something happens I don’t know what. But as it stands now the situation is hopeless with many are ready to jump off the shipwreck.
I hope everyone will have a wonderful year with all your dreams comes true aside from politics which is a sham anyway. I think life is wonderful. Work on those New Year resolutions, write them down. Think about them everyday until you get it done. Be safe, enjoy life and be happy.
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