The guilty rage of Macron, who could not Rwandanize Libya

With the balances in Libya shifting in favor of the Government of National Accord, there is a clear change in the language of all sides. The present situation has begun to be regarded as a gain that must be preserved even by the forces that, until now, supported the coup-making retired general Haftar.

Yet there is nothing acceptable, for the Libyan people as a whole, in what we call the present situation, because it promises the whole Libyan people neither stability, nor independence, nor territorial integrity. The attempts of the forces backing Haftar to build a negotiating table on the basis of the present situation, and their attempts to refer once again to the Berlin agreement or to the Geneva 5+5 Military Committee meetings, show not that they are pro-peace but only that they are trying to buy time.

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov accused the UMH by saying "the Libyan government does not want to sign the ceasefire agreement." Yet while the text agreed upon in both the Geneva and the Berlin talks was there for all to see, and Haftar continued his attacks, advanced as far as the interior of Tripoli and moved to destroy the UMH government completely, no voice in favor of a ceasefire came from Russia or from the parties that have today become apostles of a ceasefire. Now, for the call for a ceasefire to be even somewhat credible, Haftar must withdraw from the regions he occupied, for example Sirte, despite these ceasefire calls, and moreover after declaring that he will abide by the ceasefire decision.

In fact he will withdraw in any case, but doing so without shedding any more Libyan blood and without doing more harm to the Libyan people will ensure that his own file of crimes does not swell further.

THE THREAT TO EGYPT COMES FROM THE EAST AND THE SOUTH

We have always said it: those who are in Libya must give both the Libyan people and the world a reasonable explanation of what they are really doing there.

Egypt, for example, says it is in Libya for its own security. Yet as Egypt's well-known political scientist Seyfeddin Abdülfettah has put it, Egypt's security has never historically been threatened from Libya. The threat to Egypt has always come from the east, and today, especially because of water security, from the south. Today a Zionist danger from the east is a real threat to Egypt's future, but the Egypt ruled by Sisi is blind and deaf to this threat. In the same way, today it is in complete heedlessness toward the threat of drought arising because of the Nile, Egypt's source of life. Of course it should resolve its problem with Ethiopia peacefully; indeed the way to solve water security is not to fight Ethiopia or Sudan, and perhaps if serious water supply planning were done this threat could be overcome.

But today Sisi has neither the vision nor the political ability to eliminate this threat. He is in a rush to save the day, trying to fulfill the orders the BAE gives him. That he has put the great Egyptian state, with its thousands of years of state tradition, in the wake of an upstart who these days is a candidate to be the Hitler of the Middle East is a disgrace that is sufficient in itself, and more.

Of course there is also the side of the matter that concerns the Libyans. What does the Egypt ruled by Sisi want from the people of a neighboring country, what does it promise them? He cannot convince anyone that there is a threat to Egypt from Libya. Libya is not even in a position at the moment to threaten anyone. On the contrary, there is a serious threat to Libya from the Egyptian side, and this threat today is not hypothetical but real.

THE FRENCH COLONIAL HISTORY THAT MACRON RECALLS

Come on, in spite of everything, we understood Egypt. It has a long common border with Libya. What business does France have? What does France promise Libya? To whom, and how, will France, which exploited North Africa for centuries by inhuman means, explain its attempt to establish this savage system of exploitation here again?

In the latest talks on Libya at the UN, all sides regarded Turkey's presence in Libya as reasonable and justified within the framework of its agreement with the legitimate government of Libya. At least those who spoke before have adjusted their mouths and fallen silent. Only France expressed its discomfort with Turkey's activities in Libya. Why?

AK Parti spokesman Ömer Çelik expressed the reason very well: Macron is lashing out at Turkey because Turkey is not allowing France to Rwandize Libya.

In fact, France, the cradle of the Western Enlightenment, the so-called representative of Western democracy and contemporary values, with its interest in Libya reminds humanity of nothing other than its dark, savage colonial past in these lands. Today, when the peoples of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Mali and all Africa hear France mentioned, what comes to their minds is only inhuman massacres, torture, racism, and the history of despotic colonial administrations full of the sufferings imposed on them.

Today Macron's interest in Libya and his provocations against Turkey do not let that past be forgotten; on the contrary, with his every gesture, his every move, they carry that dark history and bring it to the present.

Indeed, he does not recall that history only with his words and his interest, he recalls it also by repeating it. The massacres of Haftar, whom he supports, that have come to light, recall precisely France's past full of massacres on the African continent.

History flows on, but because a person of habit does not give up his habits, it flows by repeating itself again and again.