Reflections by Comrade Fidel
MUBARAK’S
FATE IS SEALED
Mubarak’s
fate is sealed, not even the support of the
By the end of the Second World War,
Egypt was under the brilliant governance of Abdel
Nasser, who together with Jawaharlal Nehru, heir of Mahatma Gandhi; Kwame Nkrumah; and Ahmed Sékou Touré —African leaders who together with Sukarno, then
president of the recently liberated Indonesia— created the Non-Aligned Movement
of Countries and advanced the struggle for independence in the former colonies.
At the time, the peoples of Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa, such as
Egypt, Algeria, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Western Sahara, the Congo, Angola,
Mozambique and other countries immersed in the struggle against French,
English, Belgian and Portuguese colonialism backed by the United States were
fighting for independence with the support of the USSR and China.
After the triumph of our revolution,
In 1956
The death of Abdel
Nasser on September 28, 1970 was an irreversible setback for
There is no need to profoundly debate this
matter; it is enough to read recent news dispatches on what inevitably is
transpiring.
Let’s take a look at the news:
January 28:
“(DPA) - More
than 100,000 Egyptians took to the streets today to protest against the
government of President Hosni Mubarak,
despite a prohibition of demonstrations issued by authorities…”
“Demonstrators set fire to the offices
of Mubarak’s National Democratic Party (NDP) and police surveillance points, while in downtown
“
“UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon also sent a strong message from Davos.”
“(Reuters).-
President Mubarak ordered a curfew in
“Egyptian forces, supported by armoured
vehicles, deployed throughout
“Medical sources reported that so far
410 people have been injured in the protests, while state television announced
a curfew for all cities.”
“The situation represents a dilemma for
the
“(DPA)”.- Thousands of Jordanians protested today across the
country after Friday prayers, demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Samir Rifai, and political and
economic reforms.”
In the midst of the political disaster
assailing the Arab world, leaders, who were gathered in
“(EFE).- Several political leaders at the Davos
Economic Forum called for a change of the growth model.”
“The current
model of economic growth, based on consumerism and a disregard of environmental
consequences, can no longer be sustained because the planet’s survival is at
risk, several political leaders warned today in Davos.”
“‘The current model is global suicide. We
need a revolution. Revolutionary thinking.
Revolutionary action,’ warned Ban Ki-moon. ‘Natural
resources are becoming more and more scarce,” he added,
during a debate on how to redefine sustainable growth at the World Economic
Forum.”
“‘Climate change is also showing us that
the old model is more than obsolete,’ said the head of the UN.
“The UN secretary general added that in
addition to basic survival resources such as food and water, ‘one resource is the
scarcest of all: Time, We are running out of time. Time to
tackle climate change.’”
January 29:
“Washington (AP).- President
Barack Obama tried the
impossible: winning the hearts and minds of Egyptians furious with their
autocratic ruler while assuring a vital ally that the United States has his
back.
The four-minute speech Friday evening represented
a careful balancing act for Obama. He had a lot to
lose by choosing between protesters demanding that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak step down from a
government violently clinging to its three-decade grip on the country.
“Obama...didn't
endorse regime change. Nor did he say that Mubarak's
announcement was insufficient.
“Obama’s address
was the most forceful of the day, but it stuck largely to the script already
set by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and White House spokesman
Robert Gibbs.”
“(NTX).- The Washington Post
called on the Obama administration to use its
political and economic influence to convince President Mubarak
to step down in
“‘The United States should use all its
influence, including the more than 1 billion dollars in aid it provides each
year to the Egyptian army to assure its ultimate outcome (the surrender of
power by Mubarak),’ the paper states in its
editorial.”
“…in
his message delivered on Friday night Obama said that
he would continue working with President Mubarak and
regretted that he had not mentioned eventual elections.”
“The newspaper described Obama’s position as ‘unrealistic’ along with that of Vice
President Joe Biden, who told a radio station that he
would not call the Egyptian president a dictator, and that he did not think
that he should resign.”
“(AFP).- US-Arab organizations demanded that the government of
President Barack Obama stop
supporting the Mubarak dictatorship in
“(ANSA).- The
United States once again expressed its ‘concern’ over violence in Egypt and
warned the government of Mubarak that it could not
act as if nothing had happened.
Fox News reported that Obama only had two poor options with respect to
“…warned the
“The
White House and the State Department are closely following the situation in
“
“If
Mubarak falls, reports Fox, the United States and its
other principal ally in the Middle East, Israel, could have to face a
government of the Muslim Brothers in Cairo, and a turn towards anti-western sentiment
in the North African country.”
“‘We
were betting on the wrong horse for 50 years,’ former CIA agent Michael Scheuer told Fox. ‘To think that the Egyptian people are
going to forget that for half a century we supported dictators is a dream,’ he
concluded.”
“(AFP).- The international community increased its pressure on
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak
to implement political reforms and to stop the repression of demonstrators who
that have been carrying out protests against his government over the last five
days.”
“Nicolas
Sarkozy, Angela Merkel and David Cameron asked the president
‘to initiate a process of change’ in response to the ‘legitimate demands’ of
his people and ‘to avoid, at all costs, the use of violence against civilians,’
in a joint declaration published on Saturday.”
“
“King Abdullah of
“The king called Mubarak
by telephone to express his solidarity, reported the
official Saudi press agency SPA.”
January 31:
“(EFE) Netanyahu
fears that the chaos in
“Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today that he fears that the situation in
“…the prime
minister refused to discuss news reports by local media outlets that state that
“In response to
criticism against Western powers such as the United States and Germany that
have maintained close ties with totalitarian Arab regimes, the German Foreign
minister said, ‘We have not abandoned Egypt.’”
“The peace process between Israelis and
Palestinians has been at a standstill since last September, mainly because of
“
“The declarations made by the head of State are consistent with reports
by local media outlets that state that Israel is pressuring its Western
partners to tone down their criticisms of Mubarak’s
regime, which the Egyptian people and the opposition are trying to overthrow.
“Anonymous official sources quoted by the Haaretz newspaper said that on
Saturday the Israeli Foreign Ministry sent a communiqué to its embassies in the
United States, Canada, China, Russia and several European countries to request
that ambassadors emphasize to local authorities the importance of stability in
Egypt for Israel.”
“Israeli analysts said that the fall of Mubarak
could endanger the Camp David Agreements that Egypt signed with Israel in 1978
and the subsequent signing of the 1979 bilateral peace treaty, especially if it
brings about the ascent to power of the Islamic Muslim Brothers, which have
widespread popular support.”
“
“One of
“The recent appointment of General Omar
Suleiman as
“However, the Egyptian protests show
that the continuity of the regime is not necessarily guaranteed nor that
As you can see, for the first time the
world is simultaneously facing three problems:
Climate crises,
food crises and political crises.
And we can add other serious dangers to
them.
The risk of increasingly destructive war
is very real.
Will the political leaders have
sufficient serenity and equanimity to successfully face them?
Our species’ fate depends on it.
Fidel
Castro Ruz
February 1, 2011
7:15
p.m.