The Saudi ambassdor is known in Egypt for having extensive and well-founded knowledge of the strategic, social and religious dimensions and roots of the Saudi-Egyptian relationship.
But Ahmed Abdul-Aziz al-Qattan inaccurately called the young Egyptians anarchists and hooligans when they gathered outside the Saudi embassy last week and chanted anti-Saudi Arabia slogans.
It could be that the Saudi ambassador refused to tell the truth, although he knows it quite well. If he did tell the truth, he would be accused of ignoring diplomatic rules by intervening in Egypt’s internal affairs.
Since the ousting of Mubarak’s regime, Saudi Arabia and several Gulf countries have been heavily criticised for disapproving of the January 25 revolution and the Egyptian people.
The truth the Saudi ambassador refused to tell is that these anti-Saudi protests were part of a bigger conspiracy concocted overseas and implemented by local agents (including US-funded NGOs) to undermine post-revolution Egypt politically and economically.
Over the past 15 months, Egypt has been struggling to rise from the ashes of its collapsed political system after Mubarak’s 30-year corrupt and oppressive regime was toppled.
Likewise, Egypt’s economy, which was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), has been resisting deliberate attempts to switch off its life-support. Crowds of alleged revolutionary Egyptians, Salafists and Muslim Brothers fighting inside the ICU ward are terrorising blood donors waiting to enter and help resuscitate the dying nation.
For more than a century, Saudi Arabia has incontestably been Egypt’s biggest blood donor.
The attack last week on the Saudi embassy was not the first. Like the Israeli embassy, the Saudi embassy was on the hit list of conspirators at home and abroad to disgrace Egypt regionally and globally.
The Israeli and Saudi embassies were chosen deliberately. On the one hand, Israel signed a peace accord with Egypt that ended the hostilities between the two countries.
On the other hand, Saudi Arabia pledged its economic and financial support to Egypt in view of the post-revolution problems. By renewing the hostilities with Israel and denying Egypt’s dying economy the kiss of life from Arab Gulf countries led by Riyadh, the SCAF (the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces) will be seen as too inefficient and impotent to hold the fragmented Egypt firmly together.
The Saudi ambassador to Cairo should vividly remember that his embassy came first under attack during an arson attack on the Israeli embassy in September last year. Public prosecutors referred more than 77 suspects to the criminal court.
These simultaneous attacks on both the Israeli and Saudi embassies last September could make me declare that there were no patriotic or nationalistic reasons behind the attack on the Israeli embassy.
The young man, who climbed on the high-rise and replaced the Israeli flag with the Egyptian one, was foolishly called a national hero.
If I am wrong, someone should tell me why the Saudi embassy was attacked on the same day.
It is even more curious and mysterious that the US and Qatar embassies remained safe and were not threatened by revolutionary forces, Salafists and Muslim Brothers. Washington and Doha have undeniable and strong ties with Israel.
Officials in Washington are pretty sure that their Cairo embassy is protected by Egyptian-born US citizens, who are influential Salafist and MB members.
For example, the disgraced presidential candidate Hazem Abu-Ismail chose the wrong place to demonstrate against his expulsion from the presidential race.
Abu-Ismail, escorted by his brainwashed and paid supporters, campaigned outside the Higher Presidential Elections Commission premises.
The paranoid Abu-Ismail, who claims to be a soaring star in Egypt’s political wilderness, attributed his disqualification to an alleged US conspiracy.
However, like a coward he refused to avenge himself on the US embassy. Abu-Ismail knows that holding protests near the gate of the US embassy in Cairo would go against the tender memories of his late mother, who was a US citizen.
Also, the bearded sheikh does not want to inconvenience his sister and her family, who are US citizens and live permanently in America.
The supreme commanders of the Muslim Brotherhood would also immediately intervene and silence all calls for mass demonstrations in front of the US embassy to condemn Washington’s intervention-via its NGOs-in Egypt’s internal affairs.
