Well, what I noted during my life, Ahmed, is that Egyptian politicians tend to like to be the central country in the Arab world where they affect all the destinies of other countries. That was existing during Abdennaser's reign when he went to war in Yemen and tried to impose only Egyptian leadership on Syria during the unity.
Al-Sadat tried to convince all the Arabs that his peace idiocy was right and that all of the Arabs were idiots not to do what he did, and kept trying to impose his idiocy until he was shot down.
Now, Mubarak is so angry because Hamas does not want Egypt to interfere in Prisoners' swap deal, or in the resolving of the conflict with Fateh, because there is no trust at all in the intentions of Egyptian regime. Mubarak thinks that Hamas tries to decrease his control in the Middle East (taking in consideration that his control means Israeli control), so he tries to fight Hamas to get the keys of Middle East crises back.
this is the part i dont quite agree with u about. i dont think egypt tries to be the central player in this region, bec we are the central player abed and as much as we egyptains hate it we are the ones who have to take that role for several reasons, like for example: demographical reasons , geographical reasons, historical reasons, and finally religous reasons.
i know you r pretty aware of these reasons and u know where egypt lies in each one of them.
egypt does'nt impose anything abed, if it did, dont you think the arabs would've went to camp david with us??? and lets be realistic abed when sadat went he went after telling the arabs as a whole that he was going and they were the ones who refused to go. the funny thing is the years passed off course with egypt being kicked out of the arab league and the issues that came after the signing but as i was saying its funny that now after all these years there are arab countries with no borders with isreal who have relations with the the jewish state. its also rather hilarious jordan after opposing the egyptain move for peace, went on in 94 and signed a peace agreement with the isreali's. u know abed the problem is its easy for other countries to say egypt is bad, egypt is not with us blah blah bec at the end should a war start its us who suffer not any one else. i really really am dying for some one to give me an answer to why no one says this to syria who have :
1- no peace agreement with isreal
2- has occupied land hence have a reason to make a military move
3- does not take an american funds, hell its not even one fo the americans allies
never mind this part abed, the arabs said no we wont go with you sadat, what have the rest of the arabs reached??? syria has yet to make a move for its occupied land since 73, palestine is still occupied with no solution for the refuges in the near future as it is. i think it was worth a try had all the arabs agreed to go forward when egypt went to get its land and that happened at the end of the day i agree def with you egypt did'nt get it with out giving up on a lot of things and as i had mentioned earlier isreal gained more but we also moved forward bec this country was torn by wars since 1948. since 1948 abed egypt was involved in all the wars against isreal so i think we deserve to be the central country in the region and i think we deserve to have our own stand regarding all of this. by this i dont mean we should not allow food and medicine to pass, but i think is enough that when ever sth happens we get the wrap for it even though we r the same ones trying to help the palestinians unite so peace talks can start bec as thigns stand there is nothing that will stop isreal from taking more land and killing more civilians.
now with this said i want to really really know what you want this country to do abed give me points. what do u think should egypt do?
the second thing is why is it only when it comes to egypt that the arab world unites against bashing and doubting us?? i mean egypt wants to close the tunnels thats there right bec i think u mis-understood me when i said weapons being transferred thru the tunnels, i meant the other way around not gaza's direction. i cant back up this claim but this is one of the reasons why egypt is moving forward with this tunnel bec as we both agreed egypt and hamas are the key problem here.
last summer there was the hezbollah move with trying to get weapons across egypt thats not allowed and i think its only fair that egypt disagree on this.
another thing abed is the incident that happened last year when the gaza war started when hamas rioted people into breaking thru the egyptain borders. that is an assault on a country abed, yes i understand gaza was under fire and people have no where to go but once again it was hamas who brought this on them selves not the other way around.
i agree with u regarding our foreign policy, and i do understand the sensitivity revolving around hamas being an islamic organization bec this country just like algeria had its fair share of islamic groups with weapons.
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reb has a lot of points!!
