Morsi Supporters Hail Army Victory In 1973 War

Deposed president Mohamed Morsi loyalists marked on Friday the anniversary of Egypt’s victory over Israel in the 1973 war with Israel, an event celebrated as a national and military victory, despite recent tensions between the Islamists and Egypt’s army.

There is a difference between the “army and the murderous coup leaders,” Hassan Ibrahim, secretary-general of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), said on the main stage of the Rabaa Al-Adawiya protest in Cairo’s Nasr City on Friday.

“The Egyptian people embraced the army forty years ago when it defeated the Zionists in the 1973 War.” he told the protesters.

“[However], there should be a clear distinction between those who carried out the coup [against Morsi] and the rest of the Egyptian army that we appreciate and trust,” Ibrahim said.

Pro-Morsi demonstrators outside Cairo University in Giza held their shoes in the air, in an act of insult, as military planes flew across the sky Friday afternoon.

The FJP’s website also reported that protesters at Rabaa Al-Adawiya chanted “God is great” [Allahu Akbar] as the planes passed overhead. The website described the action as an act of threat from the army saying that the protesters “only fear their God.”

Military planes flew across the capital and several governorates on Friday to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Egypt’s military victory against Israel during the 1973 war on Friday.

Source : Ahram