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France put the pressure on Egypt keep its distance from Syria

7 February 2019
The daily newspaper, Al Hayat, has cited the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sameh Shukri as saying that the French President, Emmanuel Macron, probably put pressure on his Egyptian partner, Abdel Fattah al-Sissi.
It is likely that, due to this pressure, Egypt backed away from letting Syria back into the Arab League.

Collaboration between Egypt and Israel

9 January 2019
On 6 January 2018, the US television channel, CBS, broadcast an interview with Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah al-Sissi as part of their programme “60 minutes”, In this interview, President al-Sissi declared “that his army is working with Israel to fight terrorists in the North of Sinai”.
CBS’s announcement that it planned to broadcast this interview had alarmed the Egyptian ambassador to Washington. The latter had asked that the interview not be aired, a request that fell on deaf ears. (...)

The Silk Route will pass through Jordan, Egypt and Israel

19 October 2018
After the Daesh attack on the city of Palmyra, China renounced the traditional “silk route” (Bagdad, Palmyra, Damas-Tiro). An alternative trail had been envisaged, no longer across Syria but Turkey. This has also been abandoned.
During antiquity there was also a secondary route through Petra (Jordan) and Alexandra (Egypt). In the final analysis, the new Silk route should pass through Jordan then bifurcate with one branch leading to Egypt and the other in the direction of Israel.
The path (...)

Remarks by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly

New York (USA) | 25 September 2018
Madame President,
I would like to congratulate you on assuming the presidency of the 73rd session of UnitedNations General Assembly, and to express myappreciation for the efforts of Mr. Miroslav Lajcak, the president of the former session.
I also commend you onyour choice ofthe theme of this year’s session, for we are in dire need for renewing ourcommitment and contributions towards enhancing the United Nations role, as a foundation for a just and effective international order.
A world (...)

Attacks on Christians in Egypt

7 September 2018
Monseigneur Makarios, the Copte Bishop of the Egyptian city, Al-Minya, has been accused by the Egyptian authorities of not speaking out in the wake of the growing number of attacks by Islamists on Christians.
Two weeks ago, several Islamists attacked the house of a Christian in Ezbet Zoltan because they suspected that it was being used as a church. A similar incident took place last week in the neighbouring village of Demshav Hachem. Houses have been looted and burnt. Three men, one of (...)

Jared Kushner and the Palestinians’ « right to happiness »

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 26 June 2018
We were wrong to believe that the US project for the Middle East was a peace plan for Palestine. Despite the communications from the White House, this is not what President Trump is seeking. He is approaching this question from a radically different angle than that of his predecessors – not attempting to render Justice between his vassals, as an emperor would, but to unblock the situation in order to improve the daily lives of the populations involved.

Egypt imposes conditions on lifting the siege of Gaza

22 June 2018
The US special envoys, Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt, arrived in Egypt after they had been received in Jordan and Saudi Arabia. At the same time, the cabinet of President al-Sissi announced that he would support a chapter of the US Peace Plan.
Cairo would lift the siege of Gaza if two conditions are satisfied. First the Gulf Countries undertake to construct a port and an airport at Gaza and second, Hamas undertakes to release the Israeli prisoners that it was (...)

Egypt contributes part of its own territory for Plan Neom

8 March 2018
On receiving the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed ben Salmane, the Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, announced that Egypt was joining the Saudi project Neom.
In October 2017, Saudi Arabia announced its wish to build a high-tech mega city, to be called Neom, targeting luxury tourism. The region in which the city would be built would be governed by a specific legal regime geared for a Western lifestyle. This legal regime would be completely insulated from Wahhabism specifically and (...)

The Egypt/Sudan/Eritrea/Ethiopia crisis

6 February 2018
Egypt and Sudan are entangled in a number of conflicts:
The border between the two states has not been defined. The Halayeb region, occupied by Egypt since 2000, is still claimed by Sudan. Upon Egypt’s surrender of the Tiran and Sanafir islands to Saudi Arabia, in 2016, the kingdom reportedly acknowledged Egypt’s sovereignty over Halayeb.
Sudan is ruled by a branch of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, now banned by Cairo. It has just signed a agreement with Turkey, current sponsor of the (...)

39 years later, Riyadh recognizes the Camp David Agreements

19 June 2017
Acting in accordance with promise it gave on 11 April 2016, Egypt has finally returned the islands of Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia .
This act triggers an obligation on the part of Riyadh to respect the Camp David agreements under which ownership over these two small islands must not prevent movement in the straits and must allow Israeli ships to move freely.
A number of Egyptians have challenged President Al-Sissi’s decision to transfer sovereignty. To make them accept it, the (...)

Daesh declares its intention to exterminate the Copts

21 February 2017
On Sunday 19 February, Daesh [released] a video, declaring its intention to exterminate all Christians in Egypt.
On 11 December 2016, an attack on the Copt cathedral, Saint-Marc, had caused the death of 28 believers. The alleged kamikaze pilot, Abu Abdallah al-Masri (see photo), appeared in Daesh’s video.
Going forward, the Copts will form the most important Christian community in the Middle (...)

Saudi Arabia supports Qatar against the Copts

19 December 2016
On Sunday 11 December 2016, Cairo’s Saint-Peter and Saint Paul Church was bombed leaving 23 people dead and [another] fifty seriously injured.
Egypt has decreed three days of national mourning.
Under the presidency of the Muslim Brother Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood was at complete liberty to ransack a number of churches and the palaces of bishops. They even went as far as to [participate] in several lynchings. But after they were toppled, President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi undertook (...)

Egypt supports the Iraqi, Libyan and Syrian armies

26 November 2016
On November 23, 2016, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi speaking at the RTP Portuguese TV channel said: "There should be international support for the national armies of Libya, Iraq and Syria, to ensure the security of their countries."
President el-Sissi thus broke a hitherto well-kept secret: Egypt dispatched weapons to the loyalist forces of these three countries despite the Saudi threats.
On October 8, Egypt voted, at the Security Council, in favor of a Russian motion for a (...)

Ali Mamelouk in Cairo

19 October 2016
On 16 October 2017, General Ali Mamelouk, head of Syrian State Security, made an official visit to Cairo, where he met his Egyptian counterpart. The two men spoke about the fight against the jihadists, whose parent company, the Muslim Brotherhood, was constituted in Egypt in 1951 by the Anglo-Saxon secret services.
The current Brotherhood took its name from that of the secret society created by Hassan el-Banna in 1928, and dissolved in 1949 after a wave of political assassinations, (...)

The Israëli-Saudi-Egyptian agreement on the islands of Tiran and Sanafir

3 May 2016
Since the 11th April 2016, date at which the islands of Tiran and Sanafir were given by Egypt to Saudi Arabia, the two governments have been multiplying their declarations affirming that they had always been Saudi, in an attempt to soothe the anger of Egyptian nationalists [12].
The two governments and their supporters have published several internal documents aimed at proving their claims. However, in international law, only the London Convention of 1840 applies. After the «Eastern (...)

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