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About 10 years ago, an Egyptian Variety channel launched a huge publicity campaign that caused a sensation at its time under the title "Melody defying boredom", as the campaign aimed to promote the channel as the only channel that breaks the boredom of Egyptian satellite channels.
The campaign included many representative scenes of all that excites the boredom of Egyptians and their boredom, and the term "defying boredom" has become closer to the popular ideal that Egyptians use to mock ridiculous and boring situations, and people who have nothing new.
This proverb is perhaps the closest to describing the repeated statements of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi over the past six years, which ranged from a reminder of the "military coup", courting Egyptian women, praising Egyptians' patience, as well as warning the West against terrorism and the dangers of illegal immigration.
The last of these repeated statements was today, Thursday, at the Aswan Peace and Development Conference, held in southern Egypt, in which 5 African leaders, including the presidents of Nigeria, Chad, Senegal, Mali and Niger, participated, along with a large number of African ministers and diplomats specializing in African affairs.
Prisoner of the coup
Although more than 6 years have passed since the military coup in the summer of July 2013, the Egyptian president seems to be still captive to that moment, as he leaves no occasion but reminds the Egyptians of his role in isolating the late President Mohamed Morsi, and the exit of millions in the streets demanding change. Description limit.
Al-Sisi stressed that the previous regime was a legitimate one because he came through the elections but tried to change the identity of the Egyptian, which necessitated the departure of the Egyptians, and that on June 30, 2013 the army found an Egyptian will to change, according to his expression, which he has repeatedly repeated on most public occasions.
Al-Sisi also reiterated the Egyptians departure, in what was known as the Friday of mandate on July 24, 2013, when Sisi, then-defense minister, requested a "mandate to confront potential violence and terrorism," stressing that "35 million Egyptians" - without exaggeration - went out to support him.
Flirt with women
During the same meeting, Sisi repeated what he had been accustomed to in previous years of courting Egyptian women and their role in supporting him and supporting his political and economic decisions.
Al-Sisi said during the session to strengthen the role of African women to achieve peace, security and development that "Egyptian women responded strongly in 2013 in order to preserve the Egyptian identity without summoning anyone."
He praised the role of women in his government, and repeated his smile, addressing Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, "I do not want the ministers to anger the men and the prime minister, but the women were the most efficient and responsible and the least corrupt", the same statements he made on several occasions in the same manner of speech.
He affirmed that he supports women's rights, especially with regard to the Personal Status Law currently being discussed by Parliament, adding, "I will not sign a Personal Status Law that does not do justice to women."
On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on November 25 of each year, four human rights organizations (Adalah, Al-Salam International, Al-Shehab, and Human Rights Monitor) issued a joint report that monitors cases of violations of women in Egypt, highlighting their suffering.
The report pointed out that some of the forms of political violence against women in Egypt: being subjected to arbitrary arrest, enforced disappearance, and interrogation under psychological intimidation, and sometimes under torture, either directly or by deliberate medical neglect.
The patience of the Egyptians
As usual, Sisi took advantage of the talk about women to repeat his praise for what he described as the Egyptians' patience with the harsh economic measures implemented by his government during the previous years of the liberalization of the exchange rate, and the lifting of subsidies on basic goods and services, which caused a wave of high prices, but Sisi stressed that it is the bitter medicine for reform Economic.
The Egyptian President explained that he understood the message of support he had received from Egyptian women, so he decided to move forward in economic measures, as the woman represented a barrier to the exit of the husband or son in protests against these decisions.
"Not a single citizen went out to say to me that we have lessened the harshness of what we are, because the woman was a barrier in front of that, the Egyptian woman silenced her children and her husband from expressing pain, resentment and rejection," Sisi added.
Local and international human rights organizations criticize the expansion of the Egyptian security services to suppress demonstrations and silence dissenting voices, and many politicians and media professionals warn of the danger of suppressing popular protests, because they could lead to an explosion similar to the protests of September 20, which was called by the contractor and actor Mohamed Ali , And caused the system confusion.
Al-Sisi called on the Egyptians several times to be patient about the economic measures, which were the demands that ridiculed, because Sisi renewed the period of patience whenever the previous deadline ran out, in parallel with the tightening of the security grip to prevent demonstrations, so that the Egyptian president would come out each time praising the "patience of the Egyptians."
The terror of terror
The last paper in the quote of the Egyptian President was to continue the warning of terrorism as a threat to the world, where he spoke during the conference about Egypt as a successful model in the brown continent to combat terrorism, and it is ready to provide its expertise and assistance to African countries to face the challenge of terrorism through training and providing weapons.
Al-Sisi pointed out that Egypt is not only fighting terrorism in the Sinai, but across its western borders after the exacerbation of the Libyan crisis, and promised to provide a comprehensive political vision and a radical solution to the Libyan crisis within a few months.
Against the background of heightened tension with Turkey after Ankara signed a maritime border demarcation agreement with the Libyan government of reconciliation, Sisi reiterated the need for a decisive collective response to "countries that support terrorism" as he described it.
Al-Sisi's talk about terrorism came as a reproduction of his repeated speech during his meetings with leaders of European countries, which opponents see as the Egyptian president blackmailing him with a paper of terrorism and illegal immigration, in exchange for international silence on human rights violations, as well as supporting his legitimacy.
Sisi’s success in silencing Western countries prompted him to attack these countries by repeating talk about what he describes as different human rights priorities between Egypt and Western countries, where he always reiterates that security and the economy are the first for the Egyptian citizen of freedom of opinion and expression, and that Europe should not look at Egyptians with Western eyes only, which is the talk Which has become prevalent in the Egyptian media of the regime.