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re: Has Israel ever started a round of hostilities?
Posted on 11/19/14 at 8:53 pm to Iosh
Posted on 11/19/14 at 8:53 pm to Iosh
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I don't think you can use the present tense here any more, not with al-Sisi. He's a lot closer to Israel than he is to us.
I disagree. In recent history the key to leverage in Egypt has been through the military and that doorway has become considerably wider in the last 2 years.
This post was edited on 11/19/14 at 8:54 pm
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Posted on 11/19/14 at 8:58 pm to MrCarton
quote:In what sense? My impression is that we gently froze Mubarak out, and started trying to make inroads with Morsi when he came to power (assuming, incorrectly, that they wouldn't immediately frick things up), only to be caught flat-footed by the coup and now the Egyptian military doesn't trust us any more.
In recent history the key to leverage in Egypt has been through the military and that doorway has become considerably wider in the last 2 years.
If I'm misreading any of this, feel free to correct me. But everything I heard during Protective Edge was that Egypt was more or less freezing us out at every opportunity. And the state media under al-Sisi has been taking giant shits on us at every opportunity, which is alarming as Egyptian media has a much wider pan-Arab influence.
This post was edited on 11/19/14 at 9:02 pm
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