Hundreds of deaths are clear proof of a situation out of control, which cannot escalate any more than it has already escalated and which should alarm the community much more than it is doing. Indeed, the question is: How do we stop the carnage going on in Egypt?
He tries to answer the former president and current first scientific adviser of the IAI (Institute for International Affairs), Professor Stefano Silvestri, who points the finger straight at Turkey: "To resolve the Egyptian conflict it will be crucial to put pressure on Erdogan so that Turkey and other countries such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait stop exploiting the cause of the Muslim Brotherhood for internal propaganda purposes".
The support for the followers of the ousted president Mohamed Morsi does nothing but fuel tensions throughout the Middle East, which needs everything except to flare up again. And what role could the USA and the EU play instead? “That of the United States is as important as always, but There needs to be greater coherence between Egypt's two main international sponsors, namely the USA and Saudi Arabia, which however at the moment seem not to understand each other”.
"As far as Europe is concerned - continues Silvestri - at the moment it has been completely absent: it could do more, perhaps with an attempt at mediation to convince Turkey, but its role will not be decisive in any case". Ultimately, only Egypt itself will be decisive, "who will sooner or later have to realize that it is impossible to go on like this, that we need a political solution that is one of broad understandings and not just a 50%+1 majority as could emerge from the upcoming elections".
A majority that would actually risk being narrow, like the one obtained two years ago by Mohamed Morsi, dismissed president and leader of the Justice and Freedom party, which belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood movement and which still moves many votes and consensus. “Morsi – continues the expert from the Institute of International Affairs – has made huge mistakes, first of all that of imposing a strongly ideological vision with a fragile and I would say casual majority, and it's about time his supporters realized that."
“Furthermore, the former president has shown that he is incapable or unwilling to negotiate,” adds Silvestri. “This though absolutely does not justify the actions of the Egyptian military, who, in contrast to Morsi's attitude, should indeed be the first to demonstrate greater control of the situation and a better predisposition to dialogue”.
At the moment, however, according to many experts including Silvestri, the main assumption is that everyone is entitled to dialogue: "The biggest mistake of the international community would be to isolate the military, just as it was a mistake to give too much space to Morsi". In short, balance. A balance that has already been lost on the streets of Cairo and that is struggling to find itself on the desks of the West.
