Cairo erupts in Anti Morsi Riots

New riots in Egypt - people start to get tired and bored

Both in Cairo, Alexandria and the three cities Said, Ismailia and Suez along the Suez Canal, there were large demonstrations Monday night.

 Down with Morsi, down with the state of emergency! shout the protesters. 

In the capital Cairo one could see  the night sky stained red as protesters set fire to several police cars, and in   Port Said protesters attacked a police station after dark, when they could create havoc without being caught. 

It is now very tumultuous as crowds rise-up in Egypt, and days and weeks saturating the country with  violence-- the situation, is, to say the least, becoming 'difficult'. This is especially true in Port Said, but also in the capital Cairo and the canal city of Suez, where the atmosphere is tense between protesters and police.

According to hospital sources, at least two men were killed and twelve wounded, most of them with gunshot wounds, recently. In addition a total of at least 50 people were killed in the unrest in Egypt over the past five days. 

Protesters in turn accuse Morsi of having betrayed the revolution that toppled President Hosni Mubarak. 

Morsi and his supporters respond by accusing the protesters of wanting to overthrow the country's first democratically elected government. 

The truth is the country is in the  middle of the deadlock that now characterizes Egyptian politics. 

Egypt's main opposition coalition rejected Monday a Morsi  invitation to dialogue and claimed that the offer was not sincere.

Weary and tired

The big losers in this deadlock are the very Egyptian people themselves. Those who are suffering under  economic problems, stresses and strains. 

For everyday people are tired and fed up.

 There have been two very long years, where a great optimism has been replaced by disappointment and fear for the future. Where people do not know what tomorrow will bring and certainly not what is going to happen next month. 

The economic situation of many Egyptians is now in dire straights.  Tourists are dropping off dramatically and government institutions are paralyzed by political turmoil and subsidies on bread and other staples go un-paid.

The big question now is how this is going to turn out in the upcoming elections in April. There's no doubt that the Islamists and the Fellowship are quick to mobilize, while there are many who are unhappy with the way they have run the country after winning the presidential election.

Tired and bored--they rise up out of frustration.