The Egyptian Aaron Bushnell could spark a revolution in Egypt.

A revolution “could” be coming to Egypt.

I didn’t want to talk about this, because at the time when it happened, I didn’t really pay attention. I thought it was just one of those events where Egyptian protests against the military regime and they’d disappear the next day.

However, Haaretz revealed this piece, where Egyptians are calling him Egyptian Aaron Bushnell and it changed the whole significance of this event.

Like I’m actually understanding how big of an event this is and why it’s so pivotal.

You see the event I’m referring to is when an Egyptian police officer, rose atop a billboard, waving the Palestinian flag and calling Sisi a bunch of names as well as the fact that he was urging him to save the Palestinians and that he wanted to show solidarity with the Palestinians.

When he did that, Police were called to his location and this defiant officer was beaten up and then taken away, never to be heard again.

Now why this comparison to Aaron?

Aaron was part of the armed forces, and his self-immolation is significant because soldiers don’t spark revolutions and if they do it’s quite rare, the fact he did it, makes it a huge thing.

The armed police force in Egypt is under the leash of Sisi, the fact that one officer came out from that police force calling Sisi a dog and denouncing him shows that the anti-Sisi sentiment is growing within an organisation he controls.

It represents a growing danger to Sisi regime’s and him and other generals who probably don’t see eye to eye are scared of a revolution and other generals are also scared, because let’s say they come to power, they don’t want a brewing revolution on their doorstep. They want peacefully to live the lives of a dictator as previous dictators have lived before.

This officer is a direct challenge to that wish.

And with his defiant stance we can clearly see that the system the military has enacted is cracking and crumbling under the pressure of the genocide right next door to them.

Though the military isn’t doing anything, they’ve begun mobilization of their army and sent the tanks to the borders, but for people it’s not enough. They want more to be done.

Now this is a personal opinion, and you can obviously be opposed to it. But I feel like the EM wants the IDF to push the Palestinians into Rafah so they could mobilize their own people for another war.

A war right now will save the Egyptian Military regime and most likely Sisi as well, if they direct the people’s anger towards Israel, instead of the regime itself.

And usually, wars are sometimes also fought to prevent civil wars happening from within, because it diverts the attention of anger to another enemy.

If Egypt loses, well then, they have nothing to lose anyways, their regime was already in a process of dying and being overthrown. If they do win, well they win the respect of their people, status, and a whole lot more.

The regime will lose nothing but a few years of power, because eventually they’ll understand the people will rise against them if they go to war.

That’s my calculations.

Because the anger is already there anyways. People are unhappy with the economy, people are unhappy with the genocide and people are unhappy that you can’t criticise the dictatorship, or you disappear.

They’re being oppressed from every angle by the state and eventually they’ll lash out. Because that’s what happens when you push someone.

It’s what’s happened in Pakistan and it’s what will happen in Egypt.

What do you think?