Egypt and the Gulf: A Crisis of Strategy and Blind Hatred
Peloni: Egypt will forever be challenged with its failure in the Yom Kippur War, something which they have planned to reverse ever since, despite it being a peace partner with Israel for more than three decades. This obsession has driven its leader, Pres. Sisi, to make consistently bad choices, but choices which continue to pursue the goal of eliminating the shame of having been defeated by Israel, even as the official position in Egypt remains that it was Egypt, not Israel which won that war.
Jalal Tagreeb
In a candid commentary, Khaled Hassan – National Security & Foreign Policy Expert and Council Member of Israeli President’s Voice of the People Initiative – an breaks down the roots and consequences of the growing rift between Egypt and the Gulf states, arguing that the crisis stems from two deeply interconnected failures — one strategic, and one emotional.
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