What Sisi needs is legitimacy for axe-wielders, and that does not exist in Libya

Sisi, whose problems in his own country have grown beyond his stature, makes statements targeting Turkey that, considering Egypt's own reality, have no aspect that can be taken seriously. Egypt's entering such an adventure on Libyan soil, which is in no way a problem for Egypt itself, in fact means the political suicide of Sisi, who hangs by a thread anyway. So the question now has become whether Sisi can afford to risk such a suicide, and why.

Still, that this outburst was not only about himself became clear from the messages of support that came from the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia right after it. In fact, both countries had long been pressuring Sisi to be more active on Libya. They wanted him to intervene directly and occupy Libya on their behalf.

The order of occupation and coup in Islamic countries is unfortunately the only model these two countries of the Islamic world have been able to put forward, and it is the real great affliction of the Islamic world today. Fear of democracy has driven them to instigate dragging the whole of the Islamic world into an environment of bloodshed. Just so that there be no democracy, just so that peoples have no will and no say, they can prefer an order of chaos to the very end.

What they have done to Yemen is evident. The Decisive Storm they launched in the name of rescuing it from the coup of the Houthis supported by Iran has turned into an unending chaos and occupation practice. Most recently the island of Socotra was in effect handed over, under Saudi supervision, to the UAE's occupation units. The innocent people of Yemen, who at first approached this coalition with hope that it would be their savior against the Houthis, have come to curse the day they applauded it. At this point the Houthi danger has become entirely insignificant. Now the real great trouble is who will save the Yemeni people from the hands of these saviors. Because those who came under the pretext of rescue have now become the scourge of the Yemeni people and are in a rush to divide up Yemeni lands among themselves.

In Egypt there was already a democracy that began to operate after the Revolution, in which the will of the people began in some way to be reflected in the administration. What condition they put Egypt in with the coup they carried out by buying generals in the army, bigoted clerics and some bureaucrats, making them betray their own elected president and the Egyptian people, is evident. Today Sisi and all the administrative weakness he has displayed, his unending war with his people, his history, his traditions, are all the work of these. Today, because of this betrayal, Egypt is far behind the place it should occupy in history.

The pressure he is under to enter an adventure in Libya that does not match his own country's realities at all in itself presents a disgrace for Egyptian history. What kind of problem could Egypt have with Turkey? All objective realities show that Egypt's real interests lie in reaching agreement with Turkey. Because he has been incited against Turkey, Sisi is being dragged into impossible alliances in the Mediterranean, moreover to the detriment of the Egyptian people.

Now, in Libya, the same will that incited him against Turkey and Sisi are attempting, without any thought for his own realities, his country's priorities and problems, to embark on an adventure that has nothing to do with him. And in doing so he describes a legitimacy formula reminiscent of his own coup path. Thus, while displaying valor, he also exposes his theft.

He says we will go to save the Libyan people. Fine, but the Libyan people have no such request of you. Stay away, I want no other favor, say the Libyan people. Thereupon he describes without hesitation the very path he experienced in his own coup: "Let the Libyan tribes hold demonstrations, ask for our intervention, invite us as saviors, so that we too may have a legitimacy to enter Libya."

This is the mind of the man at the head of a country like Egypt, with its historical depth, honor and dignity. How else can one do evil to a country? This is the gift that those who supported Sisi's coup have given to Egypt.

He thinks he can find the legitimacy he needs in order to occupy a country in a demonstration to be staged by a few members of tribes he plans to buy. After all, he himself found legitimacy for his coup in this way. Sisi had taken the demonstration staged in Tahrir Square, filled by hatchet-men working on a daily wage with finance provided by the UAE and Saudi Arabia, as an invitation to take over the situation. Those who applauded the coup and who invited Sisi were Egypt's hatchet-men. All of them had been paid their daily wages. For them nothing had changed anyway. Whether it was democracy or dictatorship, Morsi or Sisi, it was all the same.

Now he talks about carrying the same legitimacy game to Libya, but can he find enough people in Libya who work for daily wages like the hatchet-men?

That is his problem, of course. But the time has come to put a stop to this game. The Islamic world does not deserve these foolish games. And above all, this tyranny of intellect is not fit for the grandchildren of Omar Mukhtar, who mounted the most intelligent resistance against all the tricks of the occupiers.