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Egypt courts Libyan tribes in the face of possible military intervention…

 August 21, 2020

Egypt courts Libyan tribes in the face of possible military intervention

Egypt, which is planning to deploy troops to neighboring Libya, has worked to win the favor of the heads of powerful tribes if a military intervention were carried out, in a country immersed in chaos and subjected to foreign interference.

An alliance between the Egyptian President, Abdel Fatah al Sisi, and the tribal chiefs of eastern Libya responds to several objectives: to provide them with armed support, to give them an aura of legitimacy in case of direct action, or even to find alternatives to Marshal Khalifa Haftar. , a strongman from eastern Libya, whose popularity has declined in Cairo.

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看哪，耶和華乘駕快雲，臨到埃及。埃及的偶像在他面前戰兢，埃及人的心在裡面消化。 2 「我必激動埃及人攻擊埃及人，弟兄攻擊弟兄，鄰舍攻擊鄰舍，這城攻擊那城，這國攻擊那國。

預示埃及之禍亂

19 論埃及的默示。

[0]看哪，耶和華乘駕快雲，臨到埃及。埃及的偶像在他面前戰兢，埃及人的心在裡面消化。 2 「我必激動埃及人攻擊埃及人，弟兄攻擊弟兄，鄰舍攻擊鄰舍，這城攻擊那城，這國攻擊那國。 3 埃及人的心神必在裡面耗盡，我必敗壞他們的謀略，他們必求問偶像和念咒的、交鬼的、行巫術的。 4 我必將埃及人交在殘忍主的手中，強暴王必轄制他們。」這是主萬軍之耶和華說的。[0]

5 海中的水必絕盡，河也消沒乾涸。 6 江河要變臭，埃及的河水都必減少枯乾，葦子和蘆荻都必衰殘。 7 靠尼羅河旁的草田，並沿尼羅河所種的田，都必枯乾，莊稼被風吹去，歸於無有。 8 打魚的必哀哭，在尼羅河一切釣魚的必悲傷，在水上撒網的必都衰弱。 9 用梳好的麻造物的，和織白布的，都必羞愧。 10 國柱必被打碎，所有傭工的心必愁煩。

牧伯謀士盡為愚蒙

11 瑣安的首領極其愚昧，法老大有智慧的謀士所籌劃的成為愚謀。你們怎敢對法老說「我是智慧人的子孫，我是古王的後裔」？ 12 你的智慧人在哪裡呢？萬軍之耶和華向埃及所定的旨意，他們可以知道，可以告訴你吧！ 13 瑣安的首領都變為愚昧，挪弗的首領都受了迷惑，當埃及支派房角石的使埃及人走錯了路。 14 耶和華使乖謬的靈摻入埃及中間，首領使埃及一切所做的都有差錯，好像醉酒之人嘔吐的時候東倒西歪一樣。 15 埃及中，無論是頭與尾，棕枝與蘆葦，所做之工都不成就。[0]

To tell all of you the real truth, in my personal and private life, I learned how to speak English through listening to some really interesting and informative and educative English class on the air when I was a student.

And, I’m still learning English through this some really excellent English class on the air, though I’ve got TOEFL-ITP 617 in 2011. When I listen to this excellent and wonderful English class on the air, I learn speaking English and listening to English simultaneously, expanding my knowledge all in English.

And, I also learn English writing in this English class on the air through reading all the articles carefully between the lines.   

The only technique is thinking all in English in my mind when listening to this excellent English class on the air. And, I speak Mandarin Chinese as my mother tongue. And, I speak English as my second language. I’m an ESL speaker and learner. And, from the linguistically perspective, this technique is pragmatics, which is the study of the use of the target language. 

And, I also speak Min Nan dialect as my mother tongue because I’m a pure-blood Min-Nan-dialect-group Han Taiwanese man. And, of course, I speak Min Nan dialect as my mother tongue. In fact, I speak 3 languages, English and Mandarin Chinese and Min Nan dialect. And, I’m an ESL user, in fact.

And, I’ve got a big secret. I wanna reveal here in my blog. I learned speaking, listening, reading, and writing comprehension all in English and all by myself through this excellent English class on the air when I was a student.

I’m always being taught all in English in this excellent English class on the air, for this wonderful and excellent English class on the air has been always broadcasting on the air all in English since I was a kid. I knew this English class’ very existence when I was 15 years old in the 3rd grade year in my junior high school in Taiwan. And, I began studying in this English class on the air later in my life. 

This English class on the air is one of my indispensable knowledge hubs for learning English. 

And, I’m still learning English through this English class on the air for reviewing my TOEFL–ITP and TOEIC knowledge and learning some new vocabulary.

And, by the way, I went to some really excellent and prestigious cram school here in Taiwan for studying TOEFL test, and later I scored 920 points in TOEIC in 2001. And, at that time, I always watched English news channel and HBO channel for preparing and getting ready for TOEIC Listening comprehension test in 2001. And, I studied on my own and all by myself later in my life in 2011 for TOEFL–ITP test, and I scored 617 points in my TOEFL–ITP test that year.

And, when watching English news channels and HBO channel and other English movie channels for getting ready and preparing for TOEIC and TOEFL-ITP’ listening comprehension test, I always used some black sticky tapes for covering all the Mandarin Chinese subtitles on the TV screen. And, this is the exact way the simultaneous interpreter studies when he or she is studying speaking English and listening comprehension. This is kinda of fun. And, in this way of studying English, watching HBO movies is a very fun way of studying English, and the Mandarin Chinese subtitles on the TV screen must be covered by black sticky tapes all the time when conducting the simultaneous interpreter’s way of studying English. In 2001, I scored 920 points in TOEIC test through conducting this fun way of studying English. And, my TOEIC Listening Comprehension test scored that year was 10 points higher than my TOEIC Reading Comprehension test.  

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