Ali teaching Brotherhood followers about the bright history of Egyptian intelligence

Some Muslim Brotherhood cronies in Egypt, who falsely claimed to have left the group, licked the shoes of the leaders of the formerly ruling National Democratic Party and state security brigades so that the government would approve the formation of a party for the group.

These cronies committed all types of evils, including eavesdropping on the conversations of the leaders of national forces to undermine them against the Mubarak regime.

They did this in a desperate attempt to establish the aspired party. They claimed that the party would play a major role in the fragmentation of the Brotherhood and putting an end to its presence in Egypt.

The Egyptian General Intelligence Service was the target of attacks by their leaders in the recent period.

They claimed that the service had established an organization of thugs and killed demonstrators at the Ittihadiya Palace. 

Palestinian factions have been fighting against each other for over 60 years.

The Egyptian General Intelligence worked to reunite the Palestinians, in preparation for the establishment of an independent state, by removing the effects of aggression and liberating the land.

The tools of the conflict have changed while the Egyptian strategy has remained constant. 

It is summarized in removing the effects of aggression, defeating the occupation, establishing an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, and the return of refugees.

The question was: Can this strategy be achieved, without Palestinian unity? Without a clear and specific title, a comprehensive banner, a joint leadership, and a comprehensive programme behind which all Palestinian currents and parties unite, negotiate and resist according to its agenda, and under its unified national leadership.

On this basis, the Egyptian strategy was drawn, which has never changed, since President Abdel Nasser contributed to the establishment of the Palestine Liberation Organization, until its adoption - later - as the official and sole representative of the Palestinian people, through Egypt's desperate attempts to inaugurate the famous saying "All Palestinian blood is forbidden." 

In an attempt to block the path of the Palestinian-Palestinian fighting, and to end with the multiple attempts made by the Egyptian General Intelligence Service, accused of the Brotherhood’s staunch members of creating an organization of thugs wreaking havoc in Egypt and killing its people and revolutionaries, the Palestinian reconciliation process between the two poles of the most famous Palestinian struggle, Fatah and Hamas.

Loss of hope

The Egyptian General Intelligence's relations with the Palestinian file, as a comprehensive file, began approximately at the end of 1998, when former President Mubarak entrusted the agency with this file in the midst of a storm of turmoil that portended an imminent disaster.

The date for the establishment of a viable Palestinian state - according to the Oslo Accords - had arrived and nothing had been achieved on the ground, and the second Palestinian Intifada was at the door. All indications referred to the imminence of a major explosion in the occupied territories.

At this time, a skilled surgical intervention was necessary, for men who know what they are doing, have patience and wisdom, have an unrelenting will, the goal was clear, and specific, to preserve the independence of the Palestinian decision, to always put the Palestinian cause in the spotlight, to help the natural transition from the stage of the legitimacy of the revolution to the stage of the legitimacy of the state.

The Israeli right was at the height of its strength at that time, when the second intifada began.

Egypt moved quickly and former President Mubarak held a conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, October of 2000, just two weeks after the start of the intifada.

The conference was attended by US President Bill Clinton, and the head of the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat, and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

Egypt's goal was clear: to prevent Israel’s singling out of the Palestinians, and to contain the situation, paving the way for a phase of mutual calm, preparing the atmosphere for a major political project to end the conflict.

Alternative plans

The Egyptian plans immediately changed, in response to the uprising. The decision was to provide all support to the Palestinian people, emphasize the right of resistance, search for common denominators and a unified leadership for the factions participating in the intifada, and help formulate a programme of action that saves the situation and directs the rudder towards political gains.

Once again, some people are trying to put the stick into the Egyptian wheel in an attempt to stop it, in support of regional forces and interests, in response to external ties, and in implementation of programmes that do not express the higher interest of the Palestinian people, as much as victory for narrow factional programmes that follow the Islamic resistance movements that have begun to declare themselves through the Intifada.