CAIRO -

No voice is louder than the "Renaissance Dam" in Egypt since Ethiopia announced on Monday evening the start of the second filling of the dam officially, and for the second day in a row, the issue of the dam topped all the Egyptian media, which hosted a large number of experts in various fields in search of way out of this dilemma.

Most of the guests and experts provided an analysis and explanation of the situation, whether at the technical level, water quotas, or at the political level in the UN Security Council, without specifying a clear solution to end the crisis, while a politician and former diplomat offered to resort to Israel to solve the crisis.

The official spokesman of the Egyptian Ministry of Irrigation issued a statement on Monday evening, announcing that the Minister of Irrigation, Mohamed Abdel-Aty, had received an official notification from his Ethiopian counterpart, Seleshi Begley, to inform him of the start of the second filling of the Renaissance Dam. The minister responded to his Ethiopian counterpart in an official letter, Egypt's categorical rejection of this unilateral measure.

Israel is the solution, not the problem

The former diplomat, Mostafa El-Feki - who worked as a secretary to former President Hosni Mubarak - said during his interview with the journalist Sherif Amer on the "Happening in Egypt" program broadcast on the Saudi-owned channel "MBC Egypt" that he had not witnessed such a blatant challenge from a state to the international community with this The picture before, except in the position of Israel when it was negotiating and at the same time building settlements on Palestinian lands.

Despite comparing Ethiopia to Israel, El-Feki referred to it - in his dialogue - as one of the solutions in the context of his review of papers still owned by Egypt, including "non-Arab" countries, in reference to Israel, and that it is able to put pressure on Ethiopia, and El-Feki rejected the announcer's comment that "Israel is part of of the problem."

El-Feki, who currently holds the presidency of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, called for opening the doors with everyone and talking with Israel, "You say, I have a peace agreement between you and me, which I have never broken despite all your provocations. How do you go to help a state, and you are the one who is holding the electrical project, and you are the one who protects the dam and does something harmful, We said no harm, no harm."

rogue state

It was noticeable that a number of those hosted by the Egyptian media chose the path of attacking Ethiopia and describing it as a rogue state and outlawing international law, and among them was the African affairs expert Amani Al-Taweel, who said - during a telephone interview yesterday evening, Tuesday, with the media, Lamis Al-Hadidi - that Addis Ababa sends a message to the member states of the Security Council. That your meeting is worthless, commenting by saying that "Ethiopia, with its policy, is a rogue state against international law."

As for Ambassador Mohamed Hegazy, former Assistant Foreign Minister - during a telephone interview yesterday, Tuesday with the media, Nashat Al-Daihi, on the “TEN” satellite channel, he described Ethiopia as a reckless country that deviates from the rules of international law governing the management of international rivers, and which seeks with a unilateral and unilateral will to impose hegemony on The only water resource for Egypt and Sudan.

In turn, Professor of International Law at Cairo University, Mohamed Sameh Amr, said during a telephone interview with the “A Last Word” program broadcast on the “On” channel, that Ethiopia threatens international peace and security in East Africa, and does not deal appropriately with Egypt’s respect for its people’s right to development. .

Mufeed Shehab, a professor of international law and former Egyptian Minister of Parliament, criticized Ethiopia's unilateral start of the second filling, indicating that it had reached the highest levels of intransigence.

He said that its position threatens security and peace in the Horn of Africa region, and thus in the whole world, stressing the correctness of the Egyptian legal position, and strongly defending the Declaration of Principles Agreement signed by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in 2015 with the leaders of Ethiopia and Sudan, which Egyptians believe opened the door to Ethiopia to proceed with the construction of the dam.

Journalists and classic statements

In the manner of the statements that were famous in Egypt, starting in the sixties and seventies, and chants of “soul with blood,” the statements of the Egyptian media came in the introductions to the talk shows, and Ahmed Moussa - one of the media professionals closest to the Egyptian regime - said in the introduction to his program “On My Responsibility” that there are no A force on the face of the earth prevents the flow of the Nile to Egypt, and that all Egyptian options are available in the face of Abi Ahmed's crime, he said.

The other journalist close to the regime, Nashat Al-Daihi, came out in a fiery introduction to his program “With Paper and Pen”, declaring that the Nile River “will continue to flow either with our water or with our blood,” and that when Egypt moves, it will “trample and trample”, while Azza Mustafa sent a message to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, in which she said “The Egyptian state is ready to deal with you,” and “You are playing with fire.”

Not everyone forgot to emphasize their full confidence in the political leadership and the Egyptian state and their ability to deal with the current crisis, and the entire Egyptian people's support for President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

The Egyptians are awaiting the UN Security Council session tomorrow, Thursday, at the request of the downstream countries of the Nile, Egypt and Sudan, to discuss developments in the Renaissance Dam crisis, hoping that it will end with a position that supports the rights of the two countries.

Ethiopia insists on starting a second filling of the Renaissance Dam this July and next August, even if it does not reach an agreement on the dam it is building on the Blue Nile, the main tributary of the Nile, which represents a lifeline for Egypt and depends on it mainly to meet its needs, whether for drinking or farming.