Mr. Trump's “favorite dictator.”.... meanwhile, is bracing for increased scrutiny by a Democratic administration.
Posted: 07 Nov 2020, 23:38
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Arab states eye U.S. vote after attention from Trump
“We expressed our congratulations in advance of the last election, and we expressed them now before the next one,” Mr. el-Sissi said last year, just moments after Mr. Trump dubbed him “my favorite dictator.”
“Our relationship started before the campaign, continued through the campaign and afterward,” Mr. el-Sissi told Mr. Trump and reporters assembled in France for the August 2019 Group of Seven summit of major industrial nations.
"Now Egypt‘s president — like many of his counterparts in the Arab world who have thrived under renewed attention from Washington under Mr. Trump — is trying to game out the possible replacement of his patron in the White House after the election Tuesday."
Mr. el-Sissi, meanwhile, is bracing for increased scrutiny by a Democratic administration.
Aides close to Mr. Biden already have resumed criticism of Egypt‘s military government for human rights abuses and have pressed Cairo to revive the “road map to democracy” abandoned after Egypt changed its constitution last year to allow Mr. el-Sissi to stay in power at least through 2030.
Egyptian media urges military action against Ethiopia as Nile talks break down By SAMY MAGDY
22 October 2019, 2:13 pm
[Abdallah el-Senawy, a prominent columnist for the daily newspaper el-Shorouk, said the only alternatives were internationalizing the dispute or taking military action.
“Egypt is not a small county,” he wrote in a Sunday column. “If all diplomatic and legal options fail, a military intervention might be obligatory.”
Anwar el-Hawary, the former editor of the Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper, compared the dispute to the 1973 Yom Kippur War with Israel, in which Egypt launched a surprise attack into the Sinai Peninsula.]
If this fool Abdallah thought "A surprise attack" on Isreal was painful to Egypt, try living with 80% less of the blue Nile water by "surprising" Ethiopia? Unless you're able to occupy the land defending dozens of long lines of Nile tributaries from being diverted, that is! We wish them good luck!
Arab states eye U.S. vote after attention from Trump
“We expressed our congratulations in advance of the last election, and we expressed them now before the next one,” Mr. el-Sissi said last year, just moments after Mr. Trump dubbed him “my favorite dictator.”
“Our relationship started before the campaign, continued through the campaign and afterward,” Mr. el-Sissi told Mr. Trump and reporters assembled in France for the August 2019 Group of Seven summit of major industrial nations.
"Now Egypt‘s president — like many of his counterparts in the Arab world who have thrived under renewed attention from Washington under Mr. Trump — is trying to game out the possible replacement of his patron in the White House after the election Tuesday."
Mr. el-Sissi, meanwhile, is bracing for increased scrutiny by a Democratic administration.
Aides close to Mr. Biden already have resumed criticism of Egypt‘s military government for human rights abuses and have pressed Cairo to revive the “road map to democracy” abandoned after Egypt changed its constitution last year to allow Mr. el-Sissi to stay in power at least through 2030.
Egyptian media urges military action against Ethiopia as Nile talks break down By SAMY MAGDY
22 October 2019, 2:13 pm
[Abdallah el-Senawy, a prominent columnist for the daily newspaper el-Shorouk, said the only alternatives were internationalizing the dispute or taking military action.
“Egypt is not a small county,” he wrote in a Sunday column. “If all diplomatic and legal options fail, a military intervention might be obligatory.”
Anwar el-Hawary, the former editor of the Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper, compared the dispute to the 1973 Yom Kippur War with Israel, in which Egypt launched a surprise attack into the Sinai Peninsula.]
If this fool Abdallah thought "A surprise attack" on Isreal was painful to Egypt, try living with 80% less of the blue Nile water by "surprising" Ethiopia? Unless you're able to occupy the land defending dozens of long lines of Nile tributaries from being diverted, that is! We wish them good luck!