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The educated young man said: Where does the documentation of the event written by history come from?
I said: Sometimes the same event is told by those who lived through it from different sides, and they may differ clearly in its narration.
He said: Give us an example.
I said: The history of Ahmed Orabi, for example, is a fact that we like to tell.. Was he a hero or a farmer who led the army to its defeat in front of the British!
The revolution of 19 and its leaders are heroes or villains, and why after the revolution of 52 history changed, and those who were heroes turned into villains and returned to heroes with the change of the political climate.
King Farouk, a patriot or a traitor, and is he blamed for all the mistakes, even though he was incompatible with the occupying power, or did the July revolution oppress him?
The July Revolution, was it a movement in the army or a popular revolution?
The Free Officers, a number of them from the Brotherhood, and a number of other important ministers after the revolution were also brothers, and the extent of this impact on the course of history..
Al-Shazly’s position in the October War, for example, and the story is told in two opposite ways.. Which is narrated either aims to diminish the role of Sadat or the role of Al-Shazly. There must be a documented fact about the dispute.
The killing of Sadat is another example, how does history tell it, I calculated the number of seconds from the time the killer got out of the car until he reached Sadat. Is it possible that there will not be a reaction from the guard at all in all this time, and was there a bigger conspiracy?
I know from the exciting details that the written history did not mention. The Minister of the Interior after the accident was honored with a state award and the head of the State Security Investigations was nominated as an ambassador to Germany as if they were rewards for officials after an accident that could have been avoided.
Who is responsible for his defeat of 67, which is the root of everything that the Middle East is suffering from until this moment? Is it Abdel Nasser, who claimed responsibility himself, or Field Marshal Amer, who was said to have committed suicide?
Were the two not the same?
The commander admitted his responsibility himself and we decided to absolve him of responsibility.
Isn’t that a system that ended in a tragedy that we are suffering from until now?!.
This does not detract from other actions before it, which we may see as great for this system according to the standards of its time.
History is being written today, as if this regime had not cast Egypt into the abyss of a tragedy whose effects we are suffering from until this moment.
Where is the truth documented in the many events that have passed us by?
How will history tell the end of Mubarak’s rule. Has anyone seen his abdication letter to the Military Council, has anyone heard him announce it? Did he actually give up or was he forced to give up?!
What is the relationship of January 25 and June 30 to each other, and they are events with different parties, different enemies, and different results. Why does the constitution, which is the most important document, put them as if they were a connected event?
On June 30, there was a call from the people for the army to get rid of the Brotherhood clearly.
In the first, there was the Brotherhood riding a movement that started with a youth and ended with the Brotherhood riding on power.
Will history remember the fact that June 30 was a revolution over January 25, or are they the same thing?!
The American government has recently published, according to the law, texts of letters between Arab kings and American presidents before the 1967 war, giving them chills about those we thought were heroes.
I began to believe what was narrated about January, which I experienced from the inside, that all the events of history are played with the flavor of those who write and color them.
Unfortunately, history is written only by the victors. If you describe the forest with the eyes of a lion, you will find it different from the same forest with the eyes of a deer, or a bird or the rest of the animals, edible and edible.
Do we write history in order to learn and not repeat mistakes, or to create a cumulative awareness of man to elevate himself in the future?
History often repeats itself, as if we do not learn, and those who write history to advance life, and the human soul are very few.
The bold young woman said: You yourself have lived through historical events and only scratched the crusts of them, why don’t you put your story before history, especially since you have been respected by the majority, and that you did not benefit from the events, were not polluted and were not accused. You may be, Doctor, one of the very few who came out of these events healthy.
I said:
If I told you the details of events that I saw and experienced in the six days I spent inside the Republican Palace in February 2011, you would not have believed yourselves about how many things were managed that affected the future of Egypt. But everything has its time.
As the Speaker of the British Parliament, Baroness de Sousa, said to me after January that my presence at that moment did not fit the plan, and the expression was you were an aberration in the process and that I was (according to her words) on the verge of spoiling the matter completely because I fought for the transfer of power within a framework constitution, and I thought it would prevent anarchy, which was one of the very desired outcomes of January, she said to me. (Creative chaos!!!).
The first young man said: But have you recorded your memoirs of these days to publish when you feel the time is right?
I said: I am a man who understands the present and history, and believes in documentation and references. Three intellectuals, from three different schools, witnessed the events during their occurrence, who enjoyed my confidence, at the time, so that the events had mirrors that could narrate like me.
The young man said, Who are they?
I said: Professor Salah Muntasir, Professor Ibrahim Issa, and Dr. Amr Abdel Samie. I was consulting with the late Rifaat Al-Saeed, who is politically on a different side than me, but he enjoys my trust and respect.
I recorded my opinion and documented my feelings and thoughts every day that passed by, because I am aware that what is not documented does not exist. I am also aware that the narration of the event after a time is affected by changes that occurred after it, and by facts that did not exist during it. Perhaps the truth of the moment will illuminate for those who will read history in the future the circumstances of the tracks of events at that time.
This does not mean that I publish what I have now, as I have kept what I cannot say for a time that may come one day.
But there will remain in history what must be told, by documenting what the people of Egypt did not see at the time of their experience.
A smart young man said: Give us even one example of your documentation of an event.
I smiled and remembered a lot, and said maybe at a time when there is more freedom, and maybe when the picture is complete for those who recorded the same events from their perspective at the time.
“There is no absolute truth even for the same event as long as more than one is written about it.”
I said: Sometimes the same event is told by those who lived through it from different sides, and they may differ clearly in its narration.
He said: Give us an example.
I said: The history of Ahmed Orabi, for example, is a fact that we like to tell.. Was he a hero or a farmer who led the army to its defeat in front of the British!
The revolution of 19 and its leaders are heroes or villains, and why after the revolution of 52 history changed, and those who were heroes turned into villains and returned to heroes with the change of the political climate.
King Farouk, a patriot or a traitor, and is he blamed for all the mistakes, even though he was incompatible with the occupying power, or did the July revolution oppress him?
The July Revolution, was it a movement in the army or a popular revolution?
The Free Officers, a number of them from the Brotherhood, and a number of other important ministers after the revolution were also brothers, and the extent of this impact on the course of history..
Al-Shazly’s position in the October War, for example, and the story is told in two opposite ways.. Which is narrated either aims to diminish the role of Sadat or the role of Al-Shazly. There must be a documented fact about the dispute.
The killing of Sadat is another example, how does history tell it, I calculated the number of seconds from the time the killer got out of the car until he reached Sadat. Is it possible that there will not be a reaction from the guard at all in all this time, and was there a bigger conspiracy?
I know from the exciting details that the written history did not mention. The Minister of the Interior after the accident was honored with a state award and the head of the State Security Investigations was nominated as an ambassador to Germany as if they were rewards for officials after an accident that could have been avoided.
Who is responsible for his defeat of 67, which is the root of everything that the Middle East is suffering from until this moment? Is it Abdel Nasser, who claimed responsibility himself, or Field Marshal Amer, who was said to have committed suicide?
Were the two not the same?
The commander admitted his responsibility himself and we decided to absolve him of responsibility.
Isn’t that a system that ended in a tragedy that we are suffering from until now?!.
This does not detract from other actions before it, which we may see as great for this system according to the standards of its time.
History is being written today, as if this regime had not cast Egypt into the abyss of a tragedy whose effects we are suffering from until this moment.
Where is the truth documented in the many events that have passed us by?
How will history tell the end of Mubarak’s rule. Has anyone seen his abdication letter to the Military Council, has anyone heard him announce it? Did he actually give up or was he forced to give up?!
What is the relationship of January 25 and June 30 to each other, and they are events with different parties, different enemies, and different results. Why does the constitution, which is the most important document, put them as if they were a connected event?
On June 30, there was a call from the people for the army to get rid of the Brotherhood clearly.
In the first, there was the Brotherhood riding a movement that started with a youth and ended with the Brotherhood riding on power.
Will history remember the fact that June 30 was a revolution over January 25, or are they the same thing?!
The American government has recently published, according to the law, texts of letters between Arab kings and American presidents before the 1967 war, giving them chills about those we thought were heroes.
I began to believe what was narrated about January, which I experienced from the inside, that all the events of history are played with the flavor of those who write and color them.
Unfortunately, history is written only by the victors. If you describe the forest with the eyes of a lion, you will find it different from the same forest with the eyes of a deer, or a bird or the rest of the animals, edible and edible.
Do we write history in order to learn and not repeat mistakes, or to create a cumulative awareness of man to elevate himself in the future?
History often repeats itself, as if we do not learn, and those who write history to advance life, and the human soul are very few.
The bold young woman said: You yourself have lived through historical events and only scratched the crusts of them, why don’t you put your story before history, especially since you have been respected by the majority, and that you did not benefit from the events, were not polluted and were not accused. You may be, Doctor, one of the very few who came out of these events healthy.
I said:
If I told you the details of events that I saw and experienced in the six days I spent inside the Republican Palace in February 2011, you would not have believed yourselves about how many things were managed that affected the future of Egypt. But everything has its time.
As the Speaker of the British Parliament, Baroness de Sousa, said to me after January that my presence at that moment did not fit the plan, and the expression was you were an aberration in the process and that I was (according to her words) on the verge of spoiling the matter completely because I fought for the transfer of power within a framework constitution, and I thought it would prevent anarchy, which was one of the very desired outcomes of January, she said to me. (Creative chaos!!!).
The first young man said: But have you recorded your memoirs of these days to publish when you feel the time is right?
I said: I am a man who understands the present and history, and believes in documentation and references. Three intellectuals, from three different schools, witnessed the events during their occurrence, who enjoyed my confidence, at the time, so that the events had mirrors that could narrate like me.
The young man said, Who are they?
I said: Professor Salah Muntasir, Professor Ibrahim Issa, and Dr. Amr Abdel Samie. I was consulting with the late Rifaat Al-Saeed, who is politically on a different side than me, but he enjoys my trust and respect.
I recorded my opinion and documented my feelings and thoughts every day that passed by, because I am aware that what is not documented does not exist. I am also aware that the narration of the event after a time is affected by changes that occurred after it, and by facts that did not exist during it. Perhaps the truth of the moment will illuminate for those who will read history in the future the circumstances of the tracks of events at that time.
This does not mean that I publish what I have now, as I have kept what I cannot say for a time that may come one day.
But there will remain in history what must be told, by documenting what the people of Egypt did not see at the time of their experience.
A smart young man said: Give us even one example of your documentation of an event.
I smiled and remembered a lot, and said maybe at a time when there is more freedom, and maybe when the picture is complete for those who recorded the same events from their perspective at the time.
“There is no absolute truth even for the same event as long as more than one is written about it.”
