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The Collapse of the Mubarak Regime and the Re-birth of Egypt

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Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis

The political system functioned for two main purposes, namely to perpetuate the above described, unacceptable socio-economic situation, and to serve foreign policy instructions given by the ambassadors of the US, England and France with the help of their German and Japanese counterparts. This model greatly damaged the country in all aspects, further dissociating both the weak middle classes (ca. 20% of the entire population), and the impoverished lower classes that represent more than two thirds (2/3) of the entire population.

Egypt was a very bad reading of the "2/3 society model' from the part of the socioeconomic elite; had they truly found ways to strengthen part of the middle classes and integrate them into the system, the situation would have been different. The "2/3 society model' was read by Mubarak's sons and their idiotic, uneducated, and uncultured friends, as "1/1000 society model'; this helped them make huge properties within fractions of a second; but it goes without saying that such a "model' is practically unsustainable.

For more than two decades the Egyptian people felt that he lived in a country that deprived them from socioeconomic progress and from authentic political expression at the local, regional and global level. Of course, as far as the latter parameter is concerned, the Egyptians, the Spaniards and the English (and many other nations) face the same situation, because the governmental foreign policy was overwhelmingly rejected by the outright majority of the local population in all these cases -" as it happened on the occasion of the deceitful US-led war against Iraq. But the combination of all the aforementioned parameters drove the Egyptians to the belief that they were living in an alien country that did not represent them at all.

6. Uncultured, corrupt, virtually alien elite

In this regard, the extremely low participation in the parliamentary and presidential elections should have been taken by the socio-economic elite as a serious warning and as an ominous sign; but it was not!

Although the extremely low participation in the elections showed the mild character of the regime (no forced participation took place), the fact alone demonstrated brilliantly the unbridgeable gap that separated already the socio-economic elite from the outright majority of the Egyptian people.

Even worse, the socio-economic rise of a network of personal friends of President Mubarak's sons' friends produced the image of some alien Egyptians who, although they desperately tried to demonstrate their Egyptian identity at the behavioural level, were totally unrelated to any aspect of Egyptian culture, having become hollow images of average Americans.

Throughout History, Egypt has brought about many aspects of civilization that are all parts of today's Egyptian Cultural Heritage; but Alaa and Gamal Mubarak's friends and their subservient flatterers ignored them all, and showed no interest to associate themselves with any.

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Orientalist, Historian, Political Scientist, Dr. Megalommatis, 51, is the author of 12 books, dozens of scholarly articles, hundreds of encyclopedia entries, and thousands of articles. He speaks, reads and writes more than 15, modern and ancient, (more...)
 
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