Afrasianet - Emad Daoud - "Open Sesame".. And billions underground!
Every city in history has a door.
And some cities have a cave.
In our childhood, we used to sit in front of the TV and watch Sinbad.
Everything was clear!
The thief wears a lathma.
The governor sits in his palace and sees nothing.
The minister whispers in his ear.
And one word opens the cave.
The cave hides gold.
We thought it was a children's fairytale!
Then we grew up — and discovered that tales don't die!
It just changes the names of its heroes.
In the cartoon, the 40 thieves stole the homes of the wealthy in one night and the palace of the governor himself.
When the matter was revealed, the forty were not held accountable!
Ali accused Baba — because the minister referred to him, because he has precedents, because it is always easier to convict a child than to face forty!
This is a Japanese cartoon produced in 1975.
We didn't know he was training our eyes on what was to come!
In the modern story, the thief no longer needs to be stabbed!
Enough of a budget.
And he doesn't need a horse to run on — a bank transfer at the push of a button is enough!
The old thief was afraid of the law.
The modern thief does not fear the law — he writes it!
When theft becomes an institution, corruption becomes a job, and office becomes a door to the cave — the thief is no longer a man.
It becomes a system!
The grotto does not stop at the city limits.
She goes deep.
layer upon layer.
And a corridor after a corridor.
Until it becomes bigger than the eye sees from the outside!
And the money hidden inside them is not numbers!
It's an unbuilt school.
A hospital is not prepared.
And the future of a child is postponed once — then once — and then once!
The problem is not that the money was stolen.
The problem is that the state steals itself!
The robbery ends when the thief closes the door behind him.
The great crime begins when the thief is given the key to the door from the inside!
The most dangerous thing about the cave is not the gold it is hiding.
The most dangerous thing about it is the system that teaches new faces how to steal in the old way!
It convinces her that public money has no owner.
And that the citizen will forget.
But it is unforgettable!
The citizen is patient — but he does not forget and does not forgive!
Therefore, no real crackdown on corruption is measured by the number of detainees.
It is measured by just one question:
Has the password changed?!
Because the restoration of money is a victory — the restoration of the state is the second birth!
Every cave in history – without one exception – no matter how full it is, no matter how fortified it and how long the night is, ends with a day in which it is opened!
The treasures that were inside did not drop her.
Drop it the treasures exposed!
The peoples who follow – and the Arab people who do not follow today – do not follow out of curiosity!
Relay because every people has a long bill in their chest that has not yet been paid!
The silence you hear is not contentment!
Silence means reckoning!
Baghdad is not killed by the presence of thieves.
Baghdad kills her, so that the thief becomes the one who keeps the key to the city!
When the key is returned to its owners, the cave discovers, belatedly, that the most dangerous thing in history was not the gold that was hidden inside!
Rather, the light that waited outside of it!
And wait!
And wait!
Still!
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Emad Daoud
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