Egypt has not achieved a victory by replacing the Israeli flag of the Israeli embassy with the Egyptian flag, adding that such action has not expelled the Israeli ambassador to Egypt, said the high-profile Egyptian author, Alaa al-Aswany. Aswany blamed the former Egyptian regime for replacing serious anger with artificial feelings by focusing on marginal issues at the expense of the important ones. He stressed that removing the Israeli flag from the Israeli embassy is not a national victory. Aswany said he supports the current protests and demonstrations organized in front of the Israeli embassy in Cairo that demand the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador to Cairo and severing diplomatic ties with Israel. He stressed that Egypt should be a real democratic state to beat Israel. The dentist and author was expecting that the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed forces to take serious steps against Israel after the Israeli military killed Egyptian soldiers along the Egyptian-Israeli border, to prove that Egypt seriously changed. Israel apology was not appropriate according to Aswany who said that such an apology should be written in an official document sent to the Egyptian government. Regarding military trials of the civilians, Aswany demanded the ruling military council stop prosecuting civilians in military courts. Aswany added that Mubarak's regime prosecuted only two thousand civilians militarily over his thirty-year reign, while the ruling military council has prosecuted thousands of civilians in such courts. He added that international monitoring of elections would prevent electoral violations like those committed during Mubarak's presidency. He asserted that international monitoring of the upcoming elections is not a violation of the sovereignty of the state since monitoring committees write a report about the integrity of the election without interfering in the internal affairs of the state.
