The trial of the deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi — postponed until Jan. 3, 2014 — became an opportunity to escalate an unfortunate further divisions among the Egyptian people.
While there have always been differences among many sectors of the Egyptian political forces in the past, they never exhibited any feature that could be considered civil war. Even at this moment, with the polarization that is taking place with nearly more than a thousand casualties, it cannot yet be defined as such.