If I had some extra money, I would hire someone to go look for the government that has lost its way. And I would give a description so that it may be recognized. It wears a striped t-shirt and black sunglasses, and carries a key chain with 550 keys on it. It is illiterate, has amnesia and lies compulsively. And it is the only daughter to her father, the National Democratic Party. I would give the one who finds it a big reward.
Our government has failed to solve any of the people’s chronic problems over the past 30 years. In fact, it has created problems and done away with people’s rights, losing a whole nation in the process. And the latest thing this government has lost is our great Nile River.
We have relentlessly warned the government of Israel against building dams in the Nile Basin countries to control Egypt’s water quota and threaten it with famine. And the US has paid billions of dollars to finance the Israeli projects through Zionist companies. Then the Chinese chipped in as well.
But our government has refused to listen, claimed that everything is alright, until just over a month ago when it had to admit that Egypt is facing a real problem with its water resources.
Still, the big tycoons of the ruling party were not alarmed, as they are busy selling the country’s assets, smuggling antiquities, embezzling social security and state-funded medical treatment money and rigging elections. Most importantly, they are busy finding ways to enable a transfer of power to Gamal Mubarak, the president’s son, especially after Ayman Nour discovered Mohamed ElBaradei.
And so the government woke up to a big slap on the face on 14 April, when the Nile Basin countries announced they would sign an agreement that would exclude Egypt and Sudan, the two downstream countries.
After 20 hours of negotiation in Sharm el-Sheikh, the Nile Basin countries failed to resolve three points put forward by Egypt and Sudan, namely to inform Egypt and Sudan of projects they build at the Nile River source, to continue with existing agreements, and to keep Egypt and Sudan’s existing water quotas.
They want to change this so as to have enough water resources for themselves that are necessary for the Zionist projects that Israel is implementing in their countries.
Yet the Egyptian water resources minister has said none of this would impact Egypt’s quota. I wonder how he would maintain the 55.5 billion cubic meters that Egypt gets annually if the downstream countries want to change this. How will we go about it if the government is busy breeding corruption within the ruling party, leaving Africa for Israel, the US and China to exploit? How can we have successful diplomacy with Africa when we’ve failed at diplomacy with our Arab neighbors next door?
The minister said Egypt has agreed at the Sharm el-Sheikh meeting to finance more projects for the Nile Basin countries. This suggests Egypt has not done this in the past, leaving Israel with a golden opportunity. After all, why should the ruling party’s tycoons spend on water projects elsewhere if they get their water and food delivered from Paris everyday? To hell with the Nile, and let the Egyptian people die of thirst.
Translated from the Arabic Edition.
