Two major opposition parties, the al-Wafd and Nasserites, are boycotting the elections.

BBC: Egyptian riot police outside a polling station near Cairo

If there is one theme in contemporary Egypt which unites Islamists, Liberals, Nasserites and Marxists, it is the collective fantasy of the common enemy in the shape of Israel and the Jews, which almost always correlates with the wish to destroy Israel.

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