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Egyptian Twitter Users: Has Mursi Lost His Compass?

Egyptian Twitter Users: Has Mursi Lost His Compass?
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Up until the late hours of Sunday night, Egyptian tweets kept on flowing, slamming the Egyptian President Mohammad Mursi's latest speech on cutting diplomatic ties with Syria.

Twitter users expressed their objection on Mursi's call, considering that he doesn't represent them, on contrary to what the President had claimed previously.

They further reiterated that Musri must first cut ties with the Zionist entity by closing the "Israeli" Embassy in Cairo and withdrawing the Egyptian Ambassador from Occupied Palestine.

Comments on Twitter varied from condemnation for closing the Syrian Embassy and keeping the "Israeli" one, and others described the decision as "not thoroughly calculated." Some, however, wondered when there would be a "national conference to support al-Quds" and a date to "kick the Zionist Ambassador out and withdraw the Egyptian Ambassador". Twitter users then answered, "When Mursi topples."

Moreover, some linked between Mursi's decision and the US President Barack Obama's decision in arming the insurgents in Syria, posting caricatures that resembled Mursi as a Pharaoh.

Egyptian Twitter Users: Has Mursi Lost His Compass?Another comment on Twitter mentioned, "Egypt, that had never closed the "Israeli" Embassy, now closes the Syrian Embassy," while another page wrote, "If President Abdel Naser was alive; he would have ripped Mursi from his Egyptian nationality."

Furthermore, other tweets described what happened as a "2013 Naksa [setback]" and a "betrayal". Also, an Egyptian described closing the Syrian Embassy as the greatest shame in history and wrote, "Shame on him."

On Facebook, an Arabic page that translates "the second Egyptian revolution on Mursi" considered that Mursi's decision in cutting ties with Syria aims at "offering immolations to the US" so that the latter would support it in the revolution's horizon. However, it wrote, "We also mention that the US sacrificed those before you, so the day will come when it will not waver to sacrifice you."

After 30 years from signing the unfortunate "Camp David" accord, it is crystal clear from the amount of condemning comments for Mursi's peaceful position towards "Israel" that the Egyptian people's compass still points to Palestine and its cause.

Source: al-Ahed News, translated by website team

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