Two pictures in memory of the October victory!

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Two pictures in memory of the October victory. The first is of President Sadat in the People’s Assembly, days after the war, reassuring the leaders of the safety of officers and soldiers. The second is of the head of the terrorist group on the anniversary of the victory in 2013, riding in Sadat’s car, driving around Cairo Stadium, claiming that his group was the one who had the chance to pass. Sadat’s killers tried to steal the victory that Sadat had created.

There is a difference between the details of the two pictures.

President Sadat was neither reckless nor impulsive when he made the decision to go to war. If he had been able to liberate Sinai without war, he would have done so. He was concerned for the lives of every soldier and officer, and concerned for their return to their homes in peace.

When the breach occurred, he could have chosen to liquidate it by force, as some military commanders offered to him, but he strongly refused, in order to avoid thousands of martyrs, given the overlapping forces and the difficulty of separating them.

He was genius and wise when he used the loophole as a pressure card on America and Israel to accept disengagement, withdraw to the east of the canal, and enter into negotiations.

His greatest joy was during the victory celebration in the People’s Assembly, as he asked his leaders: Did you preserve the lives of your fighters and their weapons and return them to their homes? In the language of the military, this “human perfection” was the height of splendor.

He did not want a unilateral peace with Israel, and he wanted the Arabs to be partners and supporters, to give him more power and insistence on liberating all Arab lands...but his efforts were frustrated due to outbidding and slogans.

The scene of Morsi riding Sadat’s car in 2013 was the beginning of their downfall, because they tried to steal the great victory, and Sadat’s killers gathered in the Cairo Stadium, claiming that their arrival to power was the second crossing.

They tried to put Egypt under their cloak, and reduce it to their group, so they entered the areas of quicksand, which kept pulling them into the abyss, for this is a large country, which contains and is not contained, is reduced and is not reduced.

They imagined that their black flags could replace the Egyptian flag with its white, red and black colors, so their flags, stained with the blood of innocents, fell. As for the Egyptian flag, it was told of the sacrifices of the martyrs for their homeland, land and sky.

They thought that the noise of their songs, which called for violence and blood, could replace “My Country, My Country,” which hugs the lips and penetrates the hearts. The greatest calamity was the attempts to awaken religious strife between a Muslim and a Christian, a Muslim and a Muslim, and to incite Sunni and sectarian strife. The authentic Egyptian spirit triumphed over claims of sedition, the spirit of October when every soldier and officer in the great Egyptian army pledged to liberate every inch of Sinai.

We could have believed many things, except that the Brotherhood were the makers of the October victory, that Morsi was the leader of the crossing, and that Tariq al-Zumar, Asim Abdel Majid, Osama Qasim, and the rest of the terrorists could be the makers of the great victory.

Quoted from "Akhbar Al-Youm"