“We can bear that. for the sake of our country, are you blaming us for loving our country or what?”

— Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

Remarks by el-Sisi during a military conference (28 April 2013) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC93fn9s3-c.
2013

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