'See something, say something' is working

Thirteen years after 9/11, the Americans are again fearful of attacks that would be committed by foreigners who might slip into the country, or by local lone wolves who might be influenced by foreign terrorists. For this reason, the authorities have suggested that if you “see something, say something” so that the thing may be investigated and dealt with in time. To my knowledge, no data has been released indicating to what extent the suggestion has worked in America.

Even though I never heard of authorities in Egypt making a similar suggestion to their people, it seems that the people did it on their own, and the thing is working well for them. This is what an Egyptian journalist, Sara Khorshid, says has happened to her and her sister in an article that came under the title: “Egypt's New Police State,” published on November 17, 2014 in the New York Times.

I do not doubt that the story she relates is accurate; what concerns me is her naïveté, a trait I fear may land her in trouble she does not see coming. She drops clues everywhere in the article indicating that she is being manipulated by influences – not the kind that the American authorities fear – but the kind that the nation of Egypt should start worrying about. The first clue came in her first sentence where she says: “the 1960s when Gamal Abdel Nasser set a precedent for the Arab world by creating a police state...” The truth is that she wasn't born yet in the 1960s, I lived in Egypt for seven years at the time, and nothing like a police state has ever existed there under Gamal Abdel Nasser.

Later in the article, she repeats the accusation and adds something new: “we are regressing to the 1960s when sons and daughters were known to call the police on their parents.” Well, this is what was said happened in some places in Eastern Europe when they were under Soviet occupation. Living here in Canada, I was told by recruiters who represented the Canadian Jewish Congress, stories about children in Eastern Europe that turned their parents to the authorities. Those recruiters wanted me to write the kind of articles that Khorshid has written, warning that the Arab World was on its way to becoming like Eastern Europe. And for nearly fifty years, I have been telling them to take a hike.

Nasser was their boogeyman, and his biggest sin was that he tried to unite the Arab nations who were then bickering among themselves, though not as violently as they do now. Still, the Jews wanted to split them by getting them away from Egypt at any cost. And so, they did their work by warning in every manner they could – including the use of pirate radio stations – that Nasser was bad for the region.

At the same time, they wanted the people of Egypt to turn against their President by telling them he had authoritarian tendencies that could someday be unleashed against ordinary citizens. Needless to say that nobody I know listened to this propaganda, and no incident was ever reported to indicate that someone was influenced by it.

All such clues, and the mention of “a hypernationalist atmosphere” dropped by Sara Khorshid in her article form the Jewish signature that says to me she has been imbued with their propaganda. It is the most virulent kind that wants nothing less for Egypt than to become a basket case like the worst of the neighbors. Thus, while the Egyptian authorities may be worried about the hard terrorists that are seen, and can be fought with tanks and helicopters, a more insidious threat, carried out by the worldwide Jewish terror machine, has already infiltrated the country and, like a mole, is eating it from the inside.

This time, Sara, her sister and their foreign guest had a two-hour experience that may have been unpleasant, but nowhere near as unpleasant as the experience that was felt by people wearing the wrong kind of garb being yanked off the plane while on their way to a religious gathering in Florida. They were taken to a police station, interrogated, beaten and left without food or water for several hours before they were let go without an apology or an explanation. Sara, her sister and their guest should thank the stars for being in civilized Egypt and not anywhere near North America.

And be careful, Sara. Be careful whose propaganda you're mouthing off not knowing why you're being stuffed with it. The moment they feel you're no longer useful to them; they'll spit you out like disgusting mucus. It's not worth it playing their game.