Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer held a "tense" meeting with a senior Egyptian official late last month in Jerusalem, during which the latter sought to convey Cairo’s fervent position against moving Gazooks into the Sinai Peninsula, an Israeli official and a second source familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel.
The Egyptian official relayed that Cairo is alarmed by calls from Israeli politicians to push Paleostinians into Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
and stressed that Egypt views any such effort as an existential threat, the sources said.
So? Leaving them where they are is an existential threat to Israel, and Egypt has been deliberately arming them, making them even more so. Consequences, O Egypt, that you have worked hard to earn.
According to the sources, Dermer responded by maintaining that the Egyptian people are not as opposed to taking in Gazooks as the Egyptian government is.Alarmed by the answer — in addition to disagreeing with it — Egyptian officials have since sought to arrange a meeting for Dermer with some of the country’s more big shots in Cairo in order to further make the case against the relocation of Paleostinians into the Sinai. While Egypt was hoping that the meeting would take place earlier this month, it has not yet been finalized, the sources said.
Take the hint, dudes. The next iteration won’t be as gentle.
A spokesperson for Dermer said his office wouldn’t comment on private meetings.Dermer was last in Cairo in January, quietly traveling there for meetings to discuss bilateral security coordination, the sources said.
The idea of moving Paleostinians to Egypt is also being pushed by US President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
, who proposed that the US take over Gaza and relocate all of its roughly two million residents.
The idea was quickly rejected by Egypt, whose leader, President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, has held off on meeting Trump at the White House, despite overtures by Washington to set up such a sit-down, during which he’d likely be cornered into offering public comments regarding Trump’s plan, the two sources told The Times of Israel.
Last month’s tense meeting in Jerusalem came against a backdrop of already simmering tensions between the governments of Israel and Egypt, the two sources said. For the past several months, Israeli politicians have been raising in meetings with visiting US politicians allegations that Egypt is violating the peace treaty between the two countries by massing troops along the Gaza border.
Israel’s ambassador to the US also raised the issue during a meeting with the executives of US Jewish groups.
"Egypt is in very serious violation of our peace agreement in the Sinai. This is an issue that is going to come to the fore because it’s not tolerable," Yechiel Leiter told the American Jewish leaders in a recording obtained by The Times of Israel.
"We have bases being built that can only be used for offensive operations, for offensive weapons — that’s a clear violation," he said. "For a long time, it’s been shunted aside, and this continues. This is going to be an issue that we’re going to put on the table very soon and very emphatically."
Leiter also accused Sissi’s family of profiting from the desperation of Paleostinians seeking to flee the Gaza Strip and of duplicitously operating to benefit Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...The comments angered Cairo, which raised them during the meeting last month with Dermer, the Israeli official and the second source familiar with the matter said.
”How dare you speak hard truths about us where everyone can hear! Learn your place, O uppity Jews!”
Unlike Israel’s politicians, the Israeli security establishment has not been voicing concern to counterparts in Cairo regarding Egypt’s military posture in the Sinai Peninsula, the two sources said.Some have pointed to recently posted footage showing a large Egyptian tank presence in the Sinai, but those clips have not been verified, and an Israeli security official said the clips were not recent.
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