• peopleproblems@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    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

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      9 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.

    • matcha_addict@lemy.lol
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      9 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.