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January 25th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“Tantawi, come and kill more revolutionaries, we want your execution,”
they chanted, alluding to the more than 80 protesters killed by army troops
since October. Thousands of civilians, many of them protesters, have been
hauled before military tribunals for trial since Mubarak’s ouster.
“We are not here to celebrate. We are here to bring down military rule.
They have failed the revolution and met none of its goals,” said Iman
Fahmy, a 27-year-old pharmacist who wore a paper eye-patch in solidarity
with protesters shot in the eye by security forces during recent protests.
Fahmy was among several thousand protesters led by pro-reform leader Mohamed
ElBaradei who were marching toward Tahrir Square from a neighbourhood on the
west bank of the river Nile. Several other marches were proceeding toward
Tahrir, raising the possibility of a massive turnout at the square.
Unlike many of the demonstrators, Mr ElBaradei, a Nobel Peace laureate, said
that the immediate return of the military to the barracks was not a top
priority.
“I don’t think that is the issue right now. What we need to agree on is
how to exactly achieve the revolution’s goals starting by putting down a
proper democratic constitution, fixing the economy, security and independent
judiciary and media and making sure the people who have killed those people
are prosecuted,” he said.
There were no army troops or police in Tahrir Square, birthplace of the
18-day, anti-Mubarak uprising that began on Jan. 25, 2011.
Liberal and left-leaning groups behind Mubarak’s ouster say that, except for
putting Mubarak on trial, the generals have left the old regime largely in
place. They say that the Brotherhood has tacitly accepted this,
concentrating its efforts on winning parliamentary seats rather than working
for the realisation of the uprising’s goals – social justice, democracy and
freedom.
“You have the parliament, the marshal (Tantawi) is in power and the
revolutionaries are in prison,” a man shouted at a Brotherhood
supporter carrying the blue flag of the group’s political arm, the Freedom
and Justice Party.
The Brotherhood is the largest single bloc in the new, 508-seat parliament,
which held its inaugural session on Monday. The group’s supporters have
mostly stayed away from recent protests demanding the military immediately
step down, arguing that it was time for elections rather than street
protests.
But the liberal and leftist groups maintain that the revolution must continue
until remnants of Mubarak’s 29-year regime are removed from public life and
government, and until those responsible for the killing of protesters are
brought to justice.
“I am not here to celebrate. I am here for a second revolution,”
said Attiya Mohammed Attiya, a 35-year-old father of four children who is
unemployed. “The military council is made of remnants of the Mubarak
regime. We will only succeed when we remove them from power,” said
Attiya.
The Brotherhood’s election win came in the nation’s freest election in
decades, held in stages over a six-week period starting Nov. 28. Another
Islamist group, the ultraconservative Salafis, won about a quarter of the
seats, while liberals and independents could only garner under 10 per cent
of the seats.
The Brotherhood was outlawed for most of the 84 years since its inception,
subjected to repeated crackdowns by successive governments. Under Mubarak,
hundreds of them were jailed on trumped-up charges.
“We are the political force that paid the heaviest price,” said Alaa
Mohammed, a teacher and Brotherhood supporter. “Thanks to the military
council, we had the cleanest elections ever, and the military protected the
revolution.”
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