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Prospects for a political solution also seemed a casualty, as both sides
effectively refused to back down on core demands.
The opposition leadership refused to negotiate until Mr. Morsi
withdrew a decree that put his judgments beyond judicial review until the
referendum — which he refused to do. And it demanded that the
referendum be canceled, which he also refused.
The hostilities have threatened to undermine the legitimacy of the
constitutional referendum with concerns about political coercion. The
feasibility of holding the vote also appears uncertain amid attacks on
Brotherhood offices around the country and open street fighting in the
shadow of the presidential palace.
Though Mr. Morsi spoke of opening a door for dialogue and
compromise, leaders of the opposition and the thousands of protesters
surrounding his palace dismissed his conspiratorial saber rattling as an
echo of Mr. Mubarak. And his tone, after violence many here view as a
national tragedy, seemed only to widen the gulf between his Islamist
supporters and their secular opponents over his efforts to push through the
referendum on an Islamist-backed charter approved over the objections of
other factions and the Coptic Christian church.
Outside the palace, demonstrators huddled around car radios to listen
to Mr. Morsi’s words and mocked his efforts to blame outside infiltrators
for the violence, which began when thousands of his Islamist supporters
rousted an opposition sit-in.
“So we are the ones who attacked him, the ones who attacked the sitin?”
one protester asked sarcastically. “So we are the ones with the swords
and weapons and money?” asked another. Read More
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