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Following are excerpts from an address by Egyptian TV presenter Sayyed Ali, which aired on Mehwar TV on August 20, 2011.
Sayyed Ali: The Egypt of today is very different from the Egypt of before January 25. Egypt, the Egyptian people, the Egyptian fighters, the Egyptian spirit, and many other things are not the same as before.
This is a message directed outward, not inward. Today, if you asked 86 million Egyptians if they would be willing to fight and be martyred for the sake of their honor, not one would hesitate. If some pin their hopes on the divisions and disputes of the days of the revolution, let them know that today, Egypt in its entirety – 86 million – are ready to be martyred [to avenge] the blood of the Egyptian martyrs.
Israel kicked up a fuss over an insignificant soldier called Gilad Shalit. Israel invaded Lebanon, killing and humiliating people, because of another insignificant Israeli soldier.
Egyptian blood will never be cheap. That's it. Things will not be as they were before. No more negotiations, no more bargaining, no more subservience to the US, and no more of the accursed US aid, which makes the blood of 86 million Egyptian cheap.
Today, as on every Friday in Egypt, all the Egyptians took to the streets, and some of them are outside the Israeli embassy right now, demanding that this ambassador, who is defiling Egyptian soil, be expelled, and that the Israeli flag be removed and replaced by the Palestinian flag, as Iran did in the past.
Demonstrations are being waged at Al-Qaed Ibrahim Square, Alexandria, at Al-Arbain Square, and throughout the Egyptian provinces. There is extraordinary rage.
Israel and the US must know that the Egyptian people has been freed from subservience to them. There will be no compromise over Egyptian blood.
There are so many things, and I don't know what to say. I'd like to convey a message to those who hoisted the black flag [of Al-Qaeda] in Sinai two weeks ago, and [called for] the establishment of the Islamic Emirate there: They are trying to take Sinai away from us. They are following the Israeli scheme. When Herzl convened the Zionist Congress in 1798 [sic], they were saying: Next year in Jerusalem. They are working to implement their scheme. They want to transfer the Palestinians to Sinai, creating facts on the ground.
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