On June 15, 2012, I wrote an article in the Daily Telegraph, UK that was titled: EGYPT: Wanted! Another Gamal Abdel Nasser! And today, I can say that Egypt has another Nasser, sort of, Mohamed Morsi. But Morsi didn't come to power with a military coup – like Nasser did. He came to power as the chosen leader of the Egyptian Revolution, and his powers emanate from the ballot boxes. Here are the similarities between Gamal Abdel Nasser and Mohamed Morsi. Nasser overthrew King Pharouk, who catered to the British and other colonial powers interests at the expense of the Egyptians. Mohamed Morsi was elected Egypt's president by the people, but his powers were handcuffed by the so-called Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), who catered to the interests of the US The reason? After the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979, the US launched a massive hunt against Islamist ideologues across Middle East to protect its friendly Arab despotic regimes from being overthrown – like Iran's puppet regime of Shah Reza Pahlevi. And on top of the Islamists hunt was the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, as Egypt has always been a pivotal state in Middle East's geopolitical politics! Arbitrary arrests, torture, skimpy trials, and lifetime sentences to spare. Morsi went to prison, too! His crime? He didn't like the US control of his country. THE HUNTED! Then came the Tunisian Arab Spring that jolted the Egyptian national pride and sparked the Egyptian Arab Spring. And that was the worst nightmare for the U.S. and Israel. They had managed to sustain in power their puppet, Hosni Mubarak, for 30 years, but now they realized he was not salvageable. They initiated plan A, an option to neutralize the revolutionary tsunami's power by asking the SCAF to take over – supposedly to protect the state, and then hold elections which they hoped they could win with a massive media campaign, and vote buying. Then they poured into Egypt hundreds of millions to buy those elections for Mubarak's prime minister Ahmed Shafiq! Those funds -channeled through various NGOs- bought million of votes, but not enough to prevent the Muslim Brotherhood from becoming the new government of Egypt. Then the US and Israel initiated plan B to keep the Muslim Brotherhood from taking power. Using their friendly Mubarak-appointed Egyptian Supreme Court judges, they invalidated the parliamentary vote results that the Muslim Brotherhood had won. And then the SCAF issued a degree curbing the power of the newly elected president. In essence, Morsi could govern, but any important decision he made should pass master with Mubarak's Supreme Court judges, and the SCAF generals. THE HOUNDED! Morsi, however, decided not to play second fiddle to the US, Israel, and their stooges in the Egyptian military. With the West and all Arabs hunting Syrian despot Bashar Assad, and the European hunting Belorussian despot Alexander Lukashenko, Morsi correctly calculated that the US, Europe, and Israel won't dare to instigate a military coup against him using their SCAF stooges in Egypt. That would have provoked such a global outcry, and such massive protests and bloodshed in Tahrir Square, that such a coup would have failed, and the aftermath might have been the sprouting of another Islamic regime in Egypt like Iran's. Morsi, therefore, decided that it was time to clean house with the dismissal of SCAF's Western stooges. Next should be the Egyptian Supreme Court judges – Mubarak's era stooges. THE HUNTER!
