Analysis
Friday, February 16th 2024
David Patrikarakos Unherd, Feb. 14, 2024 “Hatred and fear of Hamas runs deep in Egypt’s rulers.” A few years ago, while reporting in Gaza, I paid a visit to the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. Mohammed, my fixer, wasn’t keen. The guards there, he explained, were unfriendly. Sometimes they’d fire in the air if people […]
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Monday, June 19th 2023 / Sunday, November 5th 2023
CEMENTING TIES? Egypt and Iran: Prospects for Rapprochement: Dr. Gawdat Bahgat, Gulf International Forum, June 7, 2023 — In May 2023, Sultan Haitham bin Tariq of Oman made separate state visits to both Egypt and Iran—two trips that were largely seen as an attempt to mediate between the two major Middle Eastern powers. ________________________________________________________________________ Can […]
Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post, May 30, 2023 “Cairo’s current outreach to Turkey and the Palestinian Authority, as well as potential new ties with Iran, all come in the context of a regional diplomatic revolution in which countries are pursuing diplomatic ties, rather than conflict.” In the wake of Turkey’s recent elections Egypt was […]
Alwaght, May 20, 2023 “…. for the Israelis, Egypt’s moving towards Iran means losing a good ally in the Arab world.” [The] Israeli regime, which has always used tensions among regional countries as a breathing space to break its isolation and advance the normalization with Arab countries, is struck with confusion, concern, and […]
Lazar Berman Times of Israel, June 14, 2023 “This points at a known pattern in Egyptian media and official communications, they don’t admit that something is wrong,” At 4:20 in the afternoon of October 5, 1985, an Egyptian soldier manning a checkpoint in the Red Sea resort town of Ras Burqa raised his gun […]
Amir Avivi Jerusalem Post, June 15, 2023 “Both the Sinai and the Negev suffer from weak sovereign governance and lawlessness, providing fertile ground for the narratives of various extremist groups aiming to recruit and deepen regional instability.” This month’s disastrous killing of three IDF soldiers near the Egyptian border by an Egyptian border police officer was a […]
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