The Brotherhood and Moshe Dayan
Khalil al Anani
▻https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/middle-east/22594-the-brotherhood-and-moshe-dayan
“Moshe Dayan did not do to Egypt what the Muslim Brotherhood and the Supreme Guide’s gang did to it.” Someone who is said to be the minister of culture in Egypt made this statement. Forget this witless statement, as the minister belongs to a long line of “intelligent” Egyptians who showed their loyalty and obedience to the military in order to receive a piece, albeit a small one, of the authority cake. The true disaster is the fact that this individual is described in Egyptian media as being an “enlightened intellectual”, a label being generously given to those who appear to suffer from large doses of “Ikhwanophobia”, Islamophobia and Theophobia. The more “phobias” one has, the higher they climb up the ladder of “enlightened intellectuals”, and there are many examples of this.
We can start with Gaber Asfour, the former minister of culture. The list goes on and on and includes the Al-Shobashi siblings (Sharif and Fareeda). All of these individuals exercise a type of “intellectual” guardianship over society, which seems to them to be “incapable” of understanding and needs someone to take its hand and lead it to “enlightenment”.
Let’s go back to our friend, the current minister of culture, and his “bright” statement comparing the Muslim Brotherhood to Moshe Dayan. This statement not only provokes disgust and despair regarding the level of deterioration and disappointment reached by the intellectual field in Egypt, but also shows him shamelessly falsifying history. This man, who presents himself as a brilliant historian, is defending one of Israel’s biggest war criminals who killed and arrested thousands of Egyptians during the 1950’s, 60s and 70s and who is associated to a racist and colonial state.