This Questionable Visit and these Unacceptable Statements

This most peculiar visit has tipped the scales and represents an attempt to shape public opinion … it is unacceptable in that both the visit and its resulting statements are dubiously phony and inflammatory. This visit was rejected by the Tamarod movement, which refused to participate; I commend them for carrying out their patriotic duty.

Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham’s visit is inadmissible by any standards, in that they have inverted the facts and attempted to delude the public that what happened on June 30 was a coup. The entire world views it as a mighty popular revolution comprising more than 30 million Egyptians, in a historical precedent the likes of which the world has never seen. The June 30 Revolution was not in any way a coup; it was the revolution of a people who rejected the degradation and dictates of the West, and with it all forms of subordination and being a pawn in a U.S. conspiracy based on a Zionist Israeli agenda.

This insistence on distorting the actual facts is utterly unacceptable. It brings us into another reality, which is the issue of foreign meddling in Egyptian matters: This cannot happen in an era when the populace rose up in a comprehensive revolution, a revolution which is beyond suspicion, except in the case of any encroachments. McCain has falsified the facts and his claims are lies. They are a coarse sketching of a completely indubitable truth. This is all as clear as sunlight and yet those conspirators will not accept that — they have their own unsavory motivations. We are not here to squabble about political puzzles: We are in a debate about a supposedly great nation and how it can accept such falsities ….

If we were to accept such talk, then statements from U.S. Congress would come out indicating that the senators’ statements represent their personal opinions and that they assume no responsibility for these opinions. However, the senators’ nonsense sucks us into feelings of doubt and incredibility. All sorts of things are being said here and there! However, General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi’s statement to The Washington Post represents the definitive response to whatever has been said or will be said about our revolution. The man courageously criticized the U.S. stance — on its very own turf — without fear or hesitation. In this decisive and critical statement, in which he expressed not only his opinion but that of the Egyptian citizen in the spirit of the true Egyptian personality, he communicated Egypt’s dignity and its future hopes, emphasizing that Egypt revolted against dependency and a new age of parity has begun.

Al-Sisi stressed that what happened in Egypt was a veritable popular rebellion against an unjust ruler and that the Armed Forces’ intervention was necessary to avert a civil war in Egypt. Yet he also affirmed that the U.S. ignored popular will, not knowing the appropriate way of dealing with the army. The actual impact of this dialogue, which summarized the honor of Egypt’s history and its current reality, was that the Post described General al-Sisi as the most powerful man in Egypt. The depth of the Egyptian map was illustrated, without omissions or additions. However, what is occurring these days in Cairo is worrisome and strange: There are many question marks over this issue, as the facts and concepts keep shifting, not from the power players. And it cannot be a coincidence that all this confusion is going on, not to mention the conflicting opinions behind it, whether on the part of Congress or its envoys to Egypt.

The meeting was superficial and frosty, even in the heat of summer; the press conference at the U.S. embassy was both false and pointless, nothing but propaganda and inflammatory lies. They have lived through the lies and believed them; we will no longer accept them or have such altercations. The Egyptian people’s horizons have expanded and they will no longer stand for anything that does not do justice to their history or their honor. This visit is questionable and vile, and these statements are unacceptable, unacceptable and unacceptable!