The Ghost of Munich: Why should the political agreement that is currently taking place between Freedom and Change and the putschists be rejected, and what is the alternative?
The Ghost of Munich: Why should the political agreement that is currently taking place between Freedom and Change and the putschists be rejected, and what is the alternative? Amgad Fareid Eltayeb ( Peace for our time ), this was the phrase uttered by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain after he signed the Munich Agreement with Adolf Hitler in September 1938. This agreement aimed mainly at appeasing Hitler through a settlement that included accepting his annexation of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to preserve what seemed to be stability in the European continent at the time. But the (About us, without us) agreement, as the Czechs called it, ended only six months after it was signed with Hitler’s occupation of all the lands of Czechoslovakia, then the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, and millions of deaths in massacres of genocide, gas burners, and war battles throughout the world. What is happening now in Sudan brings back the specter of Munich to m...