Sisi fears Gaza, for the same reason Mubarak did. It’s not because of the tunnels. The tunnels have always existed. They flourished only because of the Egyptian-Israeli siege. The arms do not flow into Egypt from Gaza; it’s the other way around. Not a single concrete proof was ever given by Sisi’s propagandists or the security services implicating Hamas in any ongoing terror attacks on Egyptian soil.
Rather, Sisi, like Mubarak before him, fears the Palestinians example. The Palestinians have always acted as a radicalizing factor for Egyptians. Dissent is contagious. There is a fine thread connecting the second Palestinian intifada, which erupted in 2000, with Tahrir Square in 2011.
Year: 2014
‘Elephant jockeys and cannibals’
The deputy head of the Egyptian Football Federation, Hassan Farid, regards Africans as “elephant jockeys and cannibals,” and Egypt’s most prominent sports news website doesn’t mind at all posting those racist statements without any sort of commentary.
Such anti-African racism is rampant in Egyptian media.
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— عمو حسام (@3arabawy) August 28, 2014
Brazilian police killed 11,000 people in five years
Leading NGOs in Brazil have called for the de-militarization of the country’s police forces after finding that officers killed more than 11,000 civilians in the five years to 2013, averaging about six killings a day.