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[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Egypt is mad as fuck throughout this whole ordeal, they’ve been forced (repeatedly) into a bad situation;

  • Suez traffic is down after Houthi attacks on shipping, reducing government income from Suez transit fees - 2% of GDP is no joke to lose overnight, especially for a poorer nation like Egypt
  • Domestic pressure from within, ranging from Arab/Muslim/humanitarian solidarity with Gaza, to their own Palestinian diaspora population that wants their government to be more forceful with Israel and/or the international community
  • Political pressure from without, to maintain a status quo that increasingly does not serve their interests
  • Forced to be the only viable transit point for aid and personnel in/out of Gaza, a security nightmare they never wanted
  • And now Israel is saying that THEY need to take over the land along the border, because “any other arrangement would not ensure the demilitarization that we seek”

All while Israel consistently blames Egypt for all smuggling that occurs into Gaza. And Egypt is moving military hardware to the border now.

Your move Biden, you can stop this TODAY.

[–] peopleproblems 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm surprised we haven't heard way more about Egypt and this. Egypt has a fuck ton of problems with Israel that have fuck all to do with Palestinians. They've already gone to war with each other, and a modern war wouldn't be any more pleasant

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Because Egyptian government is very friendly to US and Israel, but they also don't want to piss off their anti-israel population too much.

Egypt has been taking shit from Israel and accepting it as is for a long time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

The crazy part of this situation is that Sisi is arguably the most pro-Israel leader in Egypt’s history.

Egypt has tried to play the middle road between the Arab League, US global and regional muscle, and Israel for a long time, but understandably doesn’t want roughly 2 million Gazan refugees arriving overnight into their fragile economy, nor wants to stand idle as Gaza gets pounded.