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Fri 09 May 2025 7:29 pm - Jerusalem Time

A year after the engineers' government



A year has passed since the government of engineers in Palestine, and what its head, Dr. Muhammad Mustafa, announced upon his appointment, in terms of the titles of the very hot files that he would take on, and which would be of interest to him, was enough to give the Palestinian elites a sense of optimism about the coming Palestinian era under this government, and that it is an opportunity for all the ideas of integration that build a state that will avenge the Gaza Strip five months after the start of the war of extermination launched by the enemy, which knows no red lines or taboos and insists on putting the donkey, not the horse, before the cart.

Dr. Mohamed Mustafa:

The son of the intelligent province of Tulkarm, the polite student of Kuwait, the engineer of Arab Iraq, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Palestine Investment Fund and the senior administrator at the World Bank who knows the secrets of this international institution and its shameful mysteries, Muhammad Mustafa - Abu Musab, is the most amazing reader and the fastest writer and responder to the messages and requests that reach him and transfer them for immediate implementation, due to the large number of his responses to us in the Accountants Syndicate, we thought he would never neglect any message, unlike what is usual from other officials, in one of our emails to him before he assumed the premiership, he responded to us seven minutes after receiving that message with a message containing one hundred and eleven words, agreeing to our request and sending us the number of the person he assigned to implement it so that we could contact him and receive what we requested.

The Engineering Government in Palestine - headed by an engineer and including 7 engineers:

Alongside the Prime Minister are a number of engineers, including Sami Hijjawi, who holds a doctorate in civil engineering, is a former mayor of Nablus and the head of the Engineers Syndicate in Nablus, who is fit to carry the message of the municipalities and unions that ran Palestine before the Authority and before the supervisory state. Engineer Mohammed Al-Amour, who at the time of his appointment was the head of the Palestinian Businessmen Association, is fully aware of the evils of the competition of enemy products in the Palestinian market, and who moved the headquarters of the Businessmen Association from a small rented apartment to a large office and headquarters that has so far cost nearly seven hundred thousand dollars, owned by this association, with very generous donations, most of which came from him and the members of the board of directors. Then there is Wael Zaqout, who also holds a doctorate in civil engineering and the environment, an expert in land policy and property rights, and the originator of the idea of turning sand into gold, inspired by his experience in Dubai. And other engineers, including Amjad Barham, a mathematician who is very close to the engineers, and the head of the Federation of Palestinian University Workers' Unions, who is able to carry the messages of the staff and students of all Palestinian universities. In the end, this government did not achieve what the Palestinian people were striving for, and of course this is not due to their shortcomings, but rather to the crimes of the enemy of this government, and the enemy of everything Palestinian. They did well to keep this government in place, with what is rumored about new additions to this ministry, because of our great confidence that it is capable of correcting its course and developing its performance.


Arab experiences as models of governments,

We have before us two examples of these governments in northern and southern Palestine: The government of engineers in Egypt 1978-1980, which was formed by the handsome genius Dr. Mustafa Khalil, the very famous engineering doctor, which unfortunately failed miserably to achieve Egypt's interests and sacrificed the morale of the brotherly Egyptian people in all its segments, and greatly confused people's thoughts. When Mustafa Khalil was Prime Minister of Egypt, Engineer Sayed Marei was also the Speaker of the People's Assembly, so Egypt became a government and parliament under the leadership of well-intentioned engineers who did not take much notice of their enemy and did not fear his treachery, and believed that building oneself takes precedence over destroying the enemy or at least the constant clash with the permanent enemy. The second model is the model of the two lawyer governments formed by the Syrian hero, lawyer: Marouf Al-Dawalibi.


Mustafa Khalil's government: Mustafa Khalil was born in 1920, which means he was only two years younger than Gamal Abdel Nasser. He graduated from the Faculty of Engineering in Cairo in 1941. When the revolution broke out in Egypt in 1952, he had returned to Egypt with a doctorate degree as a teacher at Ain Shams University. His qualifications at that time made him close to the symbols of the revolution, so Gamal Abdel Nasser appointed him Minister of Transportation in 1956. After that, he was a minister in the governments of Ali Sabri and Zakaria Mohieddin in the sixties of the last century and later Deputy Prime Minister. Then he was Secretary-General of the Socialist Union in Egypt from the age of 1970 until 1976, which led Egypt towards humane socialism that does not deviate from the religion of Egypt at all, as they said in defense of Arab socialism, which knows that the essence of this nation is its Islam. He stuck to Sadat and carried the engineers' ideas about the necessity of achieving development without much consideration for the values of the Egyptian people and the revolution of the Egyptian people. He fragmented the Socialist Union and divided it into right, left and center, to be three parties Headed by Mamdouh Salem, Khaled Mohieddin, and Ibrahim Shukry, he wanted to exploit Egypt’s minds and considered them the real wealth. He saw that Egypt lives on only 4% of its area along the Nile, and he claimed that development requires huge capital, and this can either come through loans with interest rates reaching 14%, which he rejected. He believed in economic openness with the wealth of Egyptians, expatriates and residents, and the wealth of Arabs and foreigners who wanted to invest in Egypt. He brought openness, and with it, national factories and public sector factories were dwarfed, and an imported bar of soap became twenty-three times the price of a beautiful scented Egyptian bar of soap. There are many examples in other goods. Unfortunately, he accompanied Sadat on his visit to Jerusalem and became close to him with the ideas shared by the two men. After that, he transformed from a railway engineer and university professor to an engineer to complete the Camp David Accords and then the peace treaty after sessions with Carter himself. So, the engineering genius transformed from one extreme to the other, from what he was in the era of Nasser to what he transformed into in the era of Sadat. He bound Egypt with good or bad opinion, and later subjected it through He changed it to the terms of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, which transformed the value of the Egyptian pound from a fist of gold to a fist of dust.

The two lawyers' governments in Syria - the Ma'rouf al-Dawalibi governments:

Politician, jurist, Speaker of the Syrian Parliament and Prime Minister for two terms, none of the above is more important than the character of this man when he was a young student in Europe, the day he redeemed the Mufti of Jerusalem in the last moments of the fall of Berlin and fled to France, and made a fool of all of France, its presidency, airports, ports and land borders, when it, along with the rest of the allies, was demanding the head of the Palestinian Mufti. Then he gave up his Syrian passport and stuck a picture of the Mufti of Jerusalem on it, and smuggled him to Cairo, to arrive at the royal palace at night, and that palace was lit up, and Farouk of Egypt was kind enough in 1945 to receive Hajj Amin al-Husseini in front of the eyes of the British who dominated the government in Egypt. Until that date, we had some dignity and a degree of chivalry. Marouf al-Dawalibi returned with a doctorate from the Sorbonne in law and entered the Syrian parliament representing fierce Aleppo. In 1950, Marouf al-Dawalibi took over as Minister of National Economy in Syria and preserved the national currency and was dedicated to preserving Syria's wealth, which made all the honorable and free people of Syria cling to that heroic man. In 1954, he formed his first ministry, which lasted only one day, before Amin al-Shishakli overthrew the government in Syria and arrested Marouf al-Dawalibi, who was never afraid of presidents, in all his previous positions, when he was a representative and when he was a minister. In 1961, he formed his second government and remained in it for a short period as well, until another coup occurred. May God have mercy on that hero who defied the French as a student and laughed at them in their capital, and served his country honestly without fear of a president or anyone else. This is how the hero Muhammad Marouf al-Dawalibi was a role model for everyone who wanted to be prime minister.

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