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[QUOTE]Originally posted by metinoot: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by ExptinCAI: [qb] *Actually*, I was refering to your basic lack of understanding of the whole wheat problem btw the US/Egypt and in particular, the common Egyptian perspective on the matter. And yes, I know you don't live in Egypt, so you'll ask me to PROVE IT. Here. "The reason is that [the government] succumbed to the American administration's [pressures]," argues Sikina Fouad, who has spearheaded a nationwide media campaign over the past decade promoting self- sufficiency in wheat. "It was a means used by the Americans to undermine the Egyptian economy. [Former American Secretary of State] Henry Kissinger repeatedly said wheat was a political, not an agricultural, issue," she told Al-Ahram Weekly. "The Americans flooded the Egyptian market with cheap wheat, convincing the Egyptian government to adopt import based policies since they were cheaper than domestic cultivation. The government fell into the trap, failing to recognise the strategic importance of self-sufficiency," she says. Such conspiracy theories are popular with farmers. "It was crystal clear that our agricultural policy-makers succumbed in the past to American pressure aimed at preventing us from achieving self-sufficiency in order that we would become dependent on US imports," one farmer said. His opinion is widely shared. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/893/eg9.htm [/qb][/QUOTE]Aah, so you googled, but you didn't find the news article you wanted in the first 2 minutes, so you spat out something that doesn't exactly bolster your original sentiments. " - posted 21 January, 2011 03:54 AM i think the equivalent (present day egypt, not ww2 england) would be US' food stamps " First you refer to Egyptians as "welfare receipents" then you attempt to humanize them after someone pointed out your own nation has been receiving the same welfare. You lived in Cairo for 4 months. then left when you got dumped by your Orfi love interest. Since the former mod "Shumza" deleted hundreds of threads you had started, you have yet to indicate where you live. Last I read of your residence it was Israel. You have yet to say anything different. And mind you I wasn't defending the USAid program, actually on this forum I have never defended the USAid program or the Camp David Accords. I just took the time to point out to you that while you feel the need to dehumanize Egypt for its part in the USAid benefits, Israel also had become dependent on USAid benefits. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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