Egypt's President Morsi Declares Emergency and Curfew

"Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has declared a state of emergency in the cities of Port Said, Suez and Ismalia after days of deadly unrest.

A daily curfew from 21:00 to 06:00 will be imposed for 30 days from Monday, he said in a speech to the nation.

At least 33 people died over the weekend in Port Said, where a court judgment sparked rioting.

In Cairo, anti-government protesters clashed with security forces near Tahrir Square for a fourth consecutive day.

The BBC's Aleem Maqbool, in Cairo, says the "tough speech" was in response to days of violence" quoted from the BBC.

Again the Egyptian Presidency uses forces to resolve political conflicts instead of finding political compromise.

The political unrest is caused by the new constitution which has been passed without reaching a public agreement on it. The Egyptian Church together with the liberals are among the opposition to such constitution.

Further, the Altras and Black Block (a group of Al Ahly the football club's fans) are also very angry from the murder of over 20 of their members in a football match in Port Said.

What is needed from the presidency is a condemnation of any violence from all parts, including the Police and the Muslim Brothers, the other islamists and the liberals. An invitation to all parties to sit on a negotiation round table to figure out what all the parties agree on, an leave the disagreements  to a later stage, in order to unite the people from the current division in Egypt between Islamist and Liberals.

It is obvious that the stage in Egypt now is been set for a civil war, that in my view, the Egyptian people is wise and exhausted to fall into. We are also worried from putting pressure on the Egyptian Government to engage into a war in Syria and Egypt Government accept just to attract the attention for the internal instability to an exterior danger which is a classical policy that governments sometimes use when they are unable to resolve the interior conflicts.

From all the above we notice the unstable and unpredictable future that awaits Egypt, in the coming months or years, which may be settled by national dialogue, production and economic re engineering, and by spreading a culture of moderation and tolerance.

Mohamed E. Shaheen