A good summary by Hossam el-Hamalawy. I think though that the MEE restricted how much Hossam could write and elaborate.
“[Unlike his predecessor Mubarak,] Sisi does not manage dissent; he eradicates it. Rabaa was not just a massacre. It was the founding social contract of Sisi’s new republic.”
As of the ‘Western’ support of the Egyptian regime revolves around 1. Israel. 2. We supported Morsi and ‘a democratic process’, but the Muslim Brotherhood was unable to guarantee stability. So, we support whoever can guarantee stability and protect our interests.
More importantly, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces in Egypt had already led the counterrevolution at a very early stage. The Muslim Brotherhood merely accepted the ‘new’ framework, including Morsi’s immediate submission to the American’s imperialism.
As Adam Hanieh wrote in 2012: “Many commentators portrayed Morsi’s victory as a significant challenge to SCAF’s domination and an electoral rejection of the Mubarak regime with which Shafiq was so closely associated. Editorials in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, for example, described Morsi as ‘Egypt’s first freely-elected president’ and made much of the supposed antagonism between the Muslim Brotherhood and the military generals. There is, however, a large amount of wilful deceit in such accounts. The elections could hardly be described as ‘free’ – they were held under conditions of military rule and were boycotted by half of the registered electorate.”
In fact, Egypt had two coups in one between 2011 and 2013. A coup that managed those wanting the overthrow of the regime, co-opted some, repressed others then moved to massacre more and install a military rule.
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