Posts Tagged ‘Gas’

Shut down Egypt gas exports to Israel عمال البترول ضد تصدير الغاز المصري لإسرائيل

Kareem Reda of Petrotrade carrying a banner denouncing the Egyptian gas exports to Israel, during Sunday’s protest in front of the ministerial cabinet…

VIDEO – Egypt-Israel gas pipeline attacked, again

Congratulations… The Egypt-Israel gas pipelines were attacked in Arish for the fourth time on the row in 6 months. If the regime won’t halt the gas supplies to the apartheid state of Israel, then the people will.

#Jul8 Revolution Law قانون الثورة

Protester carrying a banner titled “Revolution Law,” denouncing corruption and calling for the halt of gas exports to Israel and the renationalization of the privatized companies…

Tens of thousands of protesters flocked to Tahrir Square on Friday, starting a sit in, calling for the continuation of the revolution…

Foreign Policy: Sharaf following in the footsteps of Mubarak

The military junta and Essam Sharaf‘s cabinet are continuing forward with Mubarak’s foreign policy, despite all sorts of “change” rhetoric. The Egyptian people have made it clear in Tahrir and elsewhere (and all throughout our protests and campaigns these past years) that gas supplies to the apartheid state of Israel must stop completely. The gas trade deal with Israel has not only been the target of the wrath of Egyptians, but has become also a subject almost featuring daily now in the local press, with more details coming out about the extent of corruption and bribery in that deal which involved a wide array of regime officials from the Mukhabarrat to the Oil Ministry and Mubarak’s own family and circle of friends.

Still, the best thing the govt can come out with is “renegotiating the prices.” Well, if the government isn’t going to stop the gas supplies, then the people will do it. For the third time in 6 months, the pipelines have come under attack by the Sinai Bedouins, which caused temporary disruptions to the supplies heading to Israel and Jordan. The regime propagandists have been trying to depict the operation as the work of Hamas or “professional terrorists” in similar manner to what they used to do under Mubarak. So much for change. Hamas is hardly implicated in any operations outside Palestine (I know when an American sneezes, the US media is usually quick to assume it’s a Hamas-Hizbollah-Al-Qaeda operation, but I’m afraid it’s not true). And knowing what sort of compromising leaders Hamas has, they’ll be seeking warm relations with the SCAF. And we forget that the Sinai Bedouins despite the defamation campaigns against them are just as anti-Zionist as many of their fellow Egyptians are. The Bedouins have repeatedly called on the authorities, before and after the revolution, to open the Rafah crossing and stop the gas supplies. There were even news circulating during the uprising, which I did not report coz I couldn’t confirm, that the Bedouins were threatening to target US warships passing through the Suez Canal if Obama didn’t drop his support for Mubarak.

The attacks on the pipelines will continue, till the govt yields to the people’s demand of severing all sorts of economic and diplomatic ties with the Zionist state.

The relations vis a vis the Arab Gulf dictatorships are even more worrying. The money flooding in to Sharaf’s cabinet from those corrupt monarchs aim at nothing but “keep[ing] Egypt in their orbit.” And as I’m reading today’s newspapers, I’m sickened to find Sharaf “praising the wisdom of the Bahraini king” on his visit to Manama, and asserting that the Bahraini “national security” is organically linked to Egypt’s. In other words, our revolutionary prime minister stands hand in hand with the Bahraini tyrant, whose hands are soaked with his people’s blood–his people who’ve been defamed by the media (and Sheikh Qaradawi) as some sectarian Shiites whose loyalty went to Iran.

A revolutionary Egypt must have a revolutionary foreign policy, that seeks actively to export Tahrir and support the fight for freedom in the region and the world. We will not be able to build a democratic Egypt, while we are still surrounded by an ocean of Arab dictatorships, an apartheid regime and US military bases. What is regional is local and what’s local is regional.

Cut Egyptian gas exports to Israel NOW!

Essam Sharaf’s cabinet is re-negotiating the prices of gas exports to Israel. That’s not good enough. We need to sever all relations with the apartheid regime in Israel.

SHUT DOWN ISRAEL EMBASSY IN CAIRO NOW!

The “Supporters of the Palestinian Revolution” Group is calling for a march on Wednesday 27 April, 2:30pm, from Cairo University to the Israeli embassy in Giza, demanding severing of diplomatic and economic relations with Israel, and to restore full rights for Palestinian refugees in Egypt.

The Supporters of the Palestinian Revolution were leftist-led student societies that mushroomed on the Egyptian university campuses in the beginning of the 1970s, and was credit with the student revolt 1971-3. Many of today’s veteran dissidents were members of that group when they were students. Now after the January 2011 revolution, these societies are being revived once again.

And they tell you the Egyptian revolution is domestic and has nothing to do with Israel. Hah!

#Jan25 أدعو لوقف تصدير الغاز لإسرائيل

Protester in Tahrir Square calling for stopping the gas exports to Israel…

#Jan25 Oil and Gas Workers on Strike إضراب عمال البترول والغاز

Thousands of workers from several oil and gas companies are on strike, protesting in front of the Ministry of Petroleum, in Nasr City. The workers had several economic and political demands that include a halt to abusive management practices in terms of sackings, the reinstatement of the sacked workers, raising salaries that roughly average on LE400, establishing an independent union, impeaching the corrupt minister Sameh Fahmy, and stopping gas exports to Israel.

#Jan25 Oil and Gas Workers on Strike إضراب عمال البترول والغاز

Thousands of workers from several oil and gas companies are on strike, protesting in front of the Ministry of Petroleum, in Nasr City. The workers had several economic and political demands that include a halt to abusive management practices in terms of sackings, the reinstatement of the sacked workers, raising salaries that roughly average on LE400, establishing an independent union, impeaching the corrupt minister Sameh Fahmy, and stopping gas exports to Israel.

#Jan25 Oil and Gas Workers on Strike إضراب عمال البترول والغاز

Blogger and Petrotrade worker Kareem Reda stating some of the strikers’ demands.

Thousands of workers from several oil and gas companies are on strike, protesting in front of the Ministry of Petroleum, in Nasr City. The workers had several economic and political demands that include a halt to abusive management practices in terms of sackings, the reinstatement of the sacked workers, raising salaries that roughly average on LE400, establishing an independent union, impeaching the corrupt minister Sameh Fahmy, and stopping gas exports to Israel.