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The vigilance of a nation
Al Riyadh Word
Published in Alriyadh on 13 - 02 - 2011

Most of the armies that reach power by means of military coups are brave when suppressing their people and changing their systems, and cowards when it comes to confronting invaders. The successful choice was taken by the Egyptian army that, in spite of its loyalty to President Mubarak, was not drawn to collide with the Egyptian demonstrators and protesters when America attempted to make it a coup d'état army which would decides on the matters quickly. However, the American situation itself posed different contradicting dimensions, which made the army views it as a provoking rather than politically balanced situation that cares about Egypt's security.
We got used to see officers of such armies that reach the power through military coups given privileges as accommodation, medical care, clubs, and discounts on purchases and travel facilitation, which are all not less than briberies to protect such systems.
It was said Egypt had not be ruled by a national figure since the Pharaonic era until the coup of 1952 when Sultan Mohammed Najeeb took over, followed by Jamal Abdelnaser, Sadat, and finally by Hosni Mubarak. Many questions were raised highlighting the nature of the Egyptian people with many accusations. However, their unprecedented revolution throughout the history of revolutions will be merely one more indication in reading the spontaneous movement of the people guided by young men who do not belong to any party, and who adopt no ideology of whatever group. The strange this about it lies not only in the since of public agreement, but also in its cohesion amidst the chaos and the fleeing of the security forces; they put the whole world in front of new truth that enhanced the Arab personality that used to be accused of barbarity, cowardly, and submissive to authoritative governments. This criterion was based upon the submissiveness that caused the martial governments to be a tool for ruining the economy, the consciences, and the ethics of the society. Now, leadership is due to the revolution of technology that moved the fingers and the minds, and leads to the path of freedom, and resulted in the great and surprising 25th of January 2011 with its peacefulness and flexibility of its movement and patience that resisted before all the unsatisfactory concessions.
The new age will lead to the creation of different concepts about the Arab people who suffered suppression, dispersion and marginalization. Foreign forced have now realized that the piled rage within the Arab nations is very huge, and it moved without any gesture or mandate from anybody. America, which knew most of the Arab leaderships, and monitored their personalities and attitudes, and dealt with them superiorly to fulfill its policies in a direction that opposes the interest of the people, was the one to understand the big message. The old treatment, either by means of dictates, or killing peace and conspiring against the Palestinian land, and allying with Israel against the Arab ambitions, has been changed to be based now on equality in terms of everything, and that what made them focus on the Egyptian revolution rather than on other internal and external issues, because the effect of this movement in an influential country on the Arab and African levels cannot be forgotten.
The Arab World remained without any opinion unless when its personality and power is represented by the leader who grants himself the martial and civil ranks, and whose picture is distributed in the squares and offices, and if any one refuses to submit to this attitude would lose his identity and job, and would be detained inside his city. However, what happened in Tunisia and Egypt changed the equations, and the national became a new seed in the field of freedom, just as what the Egyptian poet (Ahmed Shawki) said:
And for the red freedom there is a door
By every imbrued hand is knocked.


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