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While the main protests were peaceful, at least one Mursi supporter was shot dead and 37 people injured in fighting in the town of Beni Suef, south of Cairo, and dozens suffered gunshot wounds during an attack on a Muslim Brotherhood office in Housh Eissa, in the northern Nile Delta.
Clips from Alexandria, Egypt (posted about 12 minutes ago):
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All four dead were shot in Nile Valley towns south of Cairo, one in Beni Suef and three in Assiut. Across the country, the Health Ministry said, 174 people were given medical treatment as a result of factional fighting in the streets.
Reuters. “Four dead as Egypt clashes in Mursi protests.” TVNZ News, July 1, 2013.
I’ve got a different kind of storm arriving soon at my location, so enough. For Egypt today, something ended and something began — what those may be, we’ll find out as the turmoil clarifies what Egyptians decide they have really in common.
Colored by my obsession, President Morsi has fit the profile of the “malignant narcissist” from his first days in office, and, predictably, he’s proven himself a grandstanding peacock in his political behavior and attitudes toward others, including the State of Israel, and that, whether or not Egyptian’s “get it” overnight, is what the demonstrations and related turmoil are about.
To be more brief, they are about the power of power to attend to constituent immediate and practical needs — for development, security, and trade — from one edge of the writ of state to the other, and the failure to care to do that and instead invest in self-aggrandizement and false causes induces first humiliation and need across so large a constituency — and then massive political expression.
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