Hypocrites have been renewing their methods and means over time to become more modern, and there is no dispute that they are among the sects that have benefited from technology and globalization, which have enabled them to spread and attracted new listeners from everywhere. However, they have remained true to their original covenant since the beginning of creation, which is to fabricate lies, create fear and frustration, and falsify and alter matters, Their motives behind these actions are the maladies of hatred and hypocrisy that inhabit their souls, maladies that can only be alleviated by scenes of the spread of sedition, chaos, divisions, and the entry of enemies based on the faults of the people of the house, not their boundaries.
Palestinian researcher Yazid Al-Sayegh, 70 years old, is not ashamed to be one of the sons of this sect. He is among others, including Arab researchers, writers, and media professionals, who have surrendered themselves to the project of the phenomenon of change, the essence of which is for the sons of one nation to meet face to face, They kill and are killed in a sectarian battle under dozens of banners, claims and arguments held by the killers and the killed. This is a project prepared for by newspapers, satellite channels, and research and study centers. The latter, instead of playing a positive role in providing solutions and alternatives to developmental and social problems, It has become a focus for the cracks imprinted on the walls of some countries and suggests techniques for widening them so that they become fissures that cause the walls to collapse and leave the citizens of the country in the open air without protection from the consequences of nature and those who live in nature.
This project also had a school of the art of speech organized for it, with its own distinctive style, and a director, supervisor, secretaries, teachers, messengers, and cleaners were appointed for it (with full appreciation for the humanitarian professions). It is interesting that some of those working in that school, when following their work, it is noted that they truly believe in being moderate reformers, and that is a craft that only the craftsmen of speech are skilled at, Of course, Yazid Al-Sayegh is one of them, Ahmed Mansour is one of them, Wadah Khanfar is one of them, Khadija Bint Qana is one of them… and the list goes on.
Is it a new autumn, quail?
Beirut-based researcher Yazid Sayigh recently published a lengthy report on the situation in Egypt, part of the material he writes for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. By chance, when I visited the aforementioned organization’s website—a routine entry, but one that came early this month after the uproar the report caused—I found another topic at the top of the site’s homepage, Written by Marie Forestier, its title is: Rebuilding the Syrian State: Impressions from the Field. After finishing reading the article, which I found to be out of order, it coincided with the announcement by the occupying Israeli state that it had obtained the file of its former spy in Syria, Eli Cohen, who was executed by the Damascus authorities in 1965, I found myself making a connection between the fall of the Assad regime in 2024 and the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The reason for the connection is that the fall of the Assad regime opened the way for the exploitation of what was in the interior of the Syrian state, including documents of the intelligence apparatus. The fall of the Soviet Union also allowed Henry Kissinger, the former US National Security Advisor, to review Moscow documents during the Soviet-American détente negotiations in the early seventies during the Nixon era, Kissinger wrote about this in his memoirs, which were published two years after the fall of the Soviet Union, expressing his astonishment that he had never expected this to happen twenty years ago, while he was managing these negotiations, but it did.
In contrast, the Soviet vaults of secrets were opened to the fullest extent after the political earthquake that caused the Soviet state to collapse and fall in a humiliating manner, and the twentieth century and the second millennium AD were heading towards sunset, and after that, no stronger state rose in place of the Soviet states… nor did peace and security prevail in the world, The wars in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the collapse of Yugoslavia, and the spread of radical terrorism across the globe are all examples of contemporary history, and history is the laboratory of the future. Therefore, those who spent tens of billions to bring Syria to its current state will not spend hundreds to rebuild it, Ms. Forestier.
Returning to the researcher Yazid Al-Sayegh, this article cannot assume good intentions towards the man, the former member of the Palestine Liberation Organization with the thin face, firstly from the premise that neutrality is not acceptable in worldly matters, O reformer Yazid, and secondly that what is happening in Egypt is the concern of its sons first and last who hold its citizenship, Third, because the man who makes his living from these writings never tires of using the templates of canned studies imported from abroad, which are not suited to the nature of the markets and consumers they are directed to, as they may cause them diseases rather than bring them benefits. Perhaps the researchers who adopt these templates have not even risen to the level of some contemporary authors who have descended to the ground and conveyed what they have witnessed with professionalism and credibility.
The ill will towards Yazid al-Sayegh writings also stems from another important matter, which is that papers are being revealed to every observer day after day that indicate attempts by some parties to engineer a new autumn for the Middle East and the Arab region, It is said: When you see quails in the sky, know that autumn is coming. This is Yazid Al-Sayegh, one of the quails, and we saw him flying in the sky. By the way, not long ago, I heard a former senior Egyptian official talk about the foreign project to reshape the Middle East and the Arab region entering its second phase. According to this official, this phase primarily targets the Levantine Crescent, or Fertile Crescent (that’s what he said).
The appearance of Ahmed al-Sharaa one winter morning at the government palace in Damascus, and the massive support he received from some regional parties, was a sign of a Western agreement with some regional parties to return to playing the card of alleged political Islam, which is welcome as long as it is moderate. This sign was then reinforced by another sign, represented by the exit of Robert Stephen Ford, the former American diplomat, He announced that he had contributed to preparing Sharaa to assume power in Syria since 2023, when Joe Biden was supposed to be the US president. This means that the project to replay the political Islam card is being run by American institutions, not just by whoever resides in the White House, with the return of American interest in the Middle East, but with the same old tools!
Here, the question arises: What will the card of religion offer the Arab and Middle Eastern peoples in an age of technological advancement and ideological decline? What is the purpose of making it a permanent alternative to governing the peoples of the region? Can it offer anything other than perpetuating divisions that began in the time of Ali and Yazid, continued during the Ottomans and Safavids, and have remained ablaze until the age of artificial intelligence?!.
Yazid Al-Sayegh, do we need non-Muslims to bring Islam to us or impose it on us with the Kalashnikov… or excuse me, with the M16?!.
The occasion was the Ottomans and Safavids fighting over the card of religion, which made them neglect to monitor the European Renaissance. Then the Ottomans fought among themselves and played the card of religion, which widened the gap between the West and the Islamic East, which was their responsibility at the time, to hundreds of light years. Then ailing Istanbul entered World War I with an army, equipment, plans and the minds of leaders from the eighteenth century, facing European empires from the twentieth century.
Now then… What’s happening now in Egypt?
What’s happening now in Egypt, Yazid Al-Sayegh? Is it construction or demolition? A 60-minute drive through Cairo and its very safe suburbs is enough for the traveler to discover the scale and pace of construction taking place in Egypt. Cairo is a model or example of what’s happening in the rest of the country’s governorates, both the Upper Egypt and the Lower Egypt (southern and northern).
Old Cairo is transforming from ugliness and neglect to beauty and care. Bent Al Moez is going through the same stages a bride goes through on her wedding day, emerging before the audience in the height of her brilliance and elegance. Bent Al Moez has bid farewell to the slums that have long been a media staple on the satellite channels of the project in which Yazid Al Sayegh and his sect serve. Cairo’s return is part of the return of soft power to historic Egypt, a matter that is bitter to the alarmists and those who march in convoys of hypocrisy.
Other Egyptian governorates are experiencing a situation similar to that of Cairo. Who can deny what is happening on the North Coast, where Allied and Axis mines lay buried beneath the sand, waiting to bite the poor people of the land? Millions of these mines were removed by the Egyptian Engineering Corps after the state grew tired of the procrastination of those responsible for sowing this death in Western countries, correcting their mistakes, and acting responsibly and, above all, with humanity.
Head south or north, west or east, you’ll see nothing but work in the country.
Infrastructure… Stones and People
Why are hypocrites so upset about Egypt’s infrastructure projects? Will foreign investment flow into any country without infrastructure? Infrastructure has become a battleground for modern-day wars and a field for the Secret Service. Development in this area has occurred at the speed and intensity of businessmen’s flights from the West to the East and vice versa, their planes filling the sky.
Infrastructure, in addition to adding to a country’s capabilities, both underground and aboveground facilities, adds expertise to the Egyptian personnel implementing and operating projects, a concept known as “human capital,” which is born, grows, and flourishes through interaction. Some time ago, I met an Egyptian engineer working for the French company operating the Cairo Metro’s third line. After discussing the matter with him, I discovered his intellectual vibrancy and his awareness of the transformations taking place globally, both in his field of work and elsewhere.
Yesterday, I also read a Bloomberg report on US tariffs and whether they are the best solution to revive the enormous US manufacturing sector in the face of the similar and rapidly emerging strength of the Chinese sector. The report concluded that the Chinese option of attracting foreign investment through infrastructure development is the best solution.
China is a good experience. It is a country that emerged from its own harsh experience without breaking itself, and thus became capable of completing a long, never-ending journey. This is what we hope for our country: that it will not break itself.
Indeed, what is the alternative to spending and continuing to spend on infrastructure? It will certainly lead to more and more foreign investment leaving the country and its people behind, and the latter will flee in search of opportunities abroad. From then on, they will cry over spilt milk.
Gulf Deals: Ultimately Investments
Yazid Al-Sayegh discussed Egypt’s deals with some Gulf states, believing they saved it from collapse. There is no disagreement that some of Cairo’s deals with Gulf capitals over the past two years have mitigated the pressing economic crisis, But ultimately, they remain win-win deals for all parties: for Egypt, which will witness an unprecedented tourism boom, given that these deals are primarily tourism and real estate-related, and for the Gulf states, which have a fundamental right to benefit from their foreign investments to the maximum extent possible. Therefore, these deals are ultimately investments, when you call things by their proper names.
Democracy is Path
There is no discourse written by members of the hypocritical sect to which Yazid al-Sayegh belongs about Egypt without mentioning the topic of democracy. Democracy is a path that begins with enlightenment—and perhaps now with technology. In either case, the alternative card—political Islam—will no longer be of value to societies, but rather a burden that societies must reject and eliminate.
Practically speaking, Yazid al-Sayegh, will the countries of the region allow democracy to prevail in Egypt? Remember, if Egypt is shaken, its surroundings will be shaken, and if Egypt submits, its surroundings will be submissive. So, will you direct funds, pens, studios, social media pages, analysts, and members of the alarmist sect to ensure the success of the experiment or its failure? Do you know what the failure of the experiment would mean?.
Simple Comparison Between Egypt and Its Surroundings
In his report, Yazid Al-Sayegh accuses the presidency of encroaching on the powers of the judiciary. This is a topic that will not be debated through words, as it is more appropriate when dealing with the sect to which Al-Sayegh belongs to make comparisons. This silences tongues and forces the individual to shift from a defensive position to a confrontational one. This then forces his opponent to fight, causing him to injure himself and be injured, This judiciary, Yazid, is still the backbone of the judicial systems in the countries of the region, including the countries that transfer your salary to you at the end of each month and also pay you incentives in return for your diligence in your work. However, the school of rhetoric that you follow has as its method an insult to the origin and a disregard for the branch. The goal is the origin, It is sufficient to read most comparative legal studies and theses on the countries of the region to find that the Egyptian case is always a party to them. This is a small part of the value of Egypt and the Egyptian judiciary.
As for media hegemony, please tell us about the powers granted to media professionals in the countries in which you work and travel, whether they are locals or expatriates… or, if you prefer, fugitives.
Regarding the youth cadres whom you said the Egyptian state is qualifying to enter the political arena, We have seen in some neighboring countries, the chosen cadres bow down to kiss the hands of those in power. Then things developed and they began to shamelessly prostrate themselves to kiss feet in front of the cameras, claiming that they were among those in power to revive an ancient heritage that had disappeared with the fall of the Ottomans and the invention of electricity.
In the end, Al-Sayegh acknowledges the challenges facing the Egyptian state, starting with the crisis of attracting investments and capital, then the regional conflicts that surround it from all sides – as he put it – and threaten its national security and income, the Nile water problem with Ethiopia, the systematic instability in Libya, and the ever-raging conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis.
