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May 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
On the sidelines of a seminar in the Austrian capital on the Arab Spring
revolutions, Mr ElBaradei welcomed the elections as a potent symbol of
democracy after six decades of authoritarian rule in his country.
“The fact that we have an election today of which we do not know the
outcome is the first ever in the Arab world I can recall,” he said. “The
fact is that this Arab spring has taken place and there is no going back …
the culture of fear is no longer. ”
But, he added, “we have a long way to go.”
Mr ElBaradei shared the Nobel Peace Prize with the International Atomic Energy
agency during his tenure as IAEA chief before the end of his last term three
years ago and he used that position to appeal for dialogue between Iran and
Western powers convinced that Tehran’s peaceful public nuclear program was a
cover for weapons ambitions. He struck the same tone Thursday, emphasising
the need for Egyptians to listen to each other on their complicated path to
democracy.
“I think the most crucial factor is to get Egyptians to understand that
they need to agree on the basic common values that they’re going to live
under for the future,” he said, urging Egypt’s future leadership to
focus on formulating a new constitution as the basic building block of a new
Egypt.
“Without agreement on a constitution, the (democratic) process would be
difficult if not impossible,” he said. “Having an election without
a constitution is … like a marriage without a contract.”
Even before the months of turmoil that led to the ousting of Mubarak, ravaging
key economic sectors like tourism, Egypt was a poor country. It ranked 112th
out of 177 nations on the United Nations’ Human Development Index last year,
and Mr ElBaradei said the more than 40 per cent of Egyptians who earn less
than $2 a day must be empowered before any democratic progress can be made.
“We should focus on the priorities of satisfying the people’s basic
needs, which is food on the table, health care, education and housing,”
he said, dismissing presidential candidates’ affiliations as secondary.
“The slogans of the left, right, or centre, whether we are a secular
state or a religious state, these are not the issues,” he said. “I
think economic and social development would let a lot of these esoteric
discussions evaporate.
“The army is still sitting in one camp, the revolutionary youth is
sitting in another, the Islamists, of course are sitting in yet another,
while the Average Joe wants to focus on stability, education and health care,”
he said.
“So you need to get all these people together and tell them, you are
going to live together under one roof. Get your act together, try to focus
on the basic values that are not going to change, and get everyone to feel
comfortable.”
Source: AP
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