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.
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
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.
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.
Oh yes, America interfere with more international disputes! (especially one that has been going on for longer then the Roman empire) and throw away 70 years of investment in an alliance. Might as well dissolve the UN while they are at it.
Biden enables Israeli aggression by providing military support. This isn’t important for the IDF in Gaza, they can crush that nut solo. What it is important for is Hezbollah. Biden’s unlimited support takes that threat (mostly) off the board, so the IDF can ratchet and ratchet the pressure on Gaza without having to be concerned about their neighbor to the north who take issue with said treatment of Gaza (and their occupation of the Golan Heights).
Remove that support and Israel cannot ignore diplomatic solutions with Hezbollah (as Israel has been), or at the very least is looking at a two front war - a situation Israel historically has avoided at all cost. THAT is leverage that could work.
Otherwise Netanyahu gets to take the US for a ride, as long as “the unthinkable” isn’t threatened. Israel is the one destroying 70 years of UN & US led peace efforts, and their overreaction is fueling this crisis.
In what way are we not already completely interfering? It’s still interfering even if we are doing their bidding.
Israel exists in its current form despite the UN, not because of it. Israel are the ones pissing away the rules based order and not the other way around. They’re a religious ethnostate and will not stop except by incapacitation.
If this happens I’ll feel really bad for Jimmy, because this was a huge part of his legacy. And after losing Rosalynn, too.
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It’s been “widely reported”… must be a fact that can be written about
Is it better than “Word on the Street is”?
“This bloke down the pub reckons”
The author is hardly some bloke down at the pub. https://lsa.umich.edu/history/people/faculty/jrcole.html
I was actually just giving an example of something less reliable than "word on the street is ", but good to know 🙂
What exactly is z network? I’ve never seen it before now
Founded in 1995, ZNet (also known as ZNet, ZNetwork and Z Communications) is a website with contributors that include Noam Chomsky,[8][9][10] Eduardo Galeano,[8] Boris Kagarlitsky,[8] Edward Said,[8] Chris Spannos[11] and Kevin Zeese.[12][13] John Pilger has described it as one of the best news sources online.[8] Rene Milan of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies called the site a rich source of information about participism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZNetwork
Weird that you would link the Wikipedia article but not quote the opening paragraph.
ZNetwork, formerly known as Z Communications, is a left-wing activist-oriented media group founded in 1986 by Michael Albert and Lydia Sargent.[2] It is, in broad terms, ideologically libertarian socialist, anti-capitalist, and heavily influenced by participatory economics, although much of its content is focused on critical commentary of foreign affairs.[citation needed] Its publications include Z Magazine, ZNet, and Z Video.[3] Since early November 2022, they have all been regrouped under the name ZNetwork.
I am a socialist. Why do you assume that makes the information any less credible? Do you think the Wall Street Journal is any less partisan?
Manufacturing Consent Noam Chomsky and the Media (Documentary) https://youtu.be/Li2m3rvsO0I?si=5uWUjsP3VqcnVXqY
Yet still actively building a walled ‘buffer zone’ to further imprison fleeing Palestinians
Sisi cares about Palestine as much as the Pakistani COAS cares about Kashmir lol
He’ll fold instantly if the USA kicks him some IMF money and happily watch Rafah get slaughtered from the comfort of his foreign properties.
