“We reject the displacement of Palestinians from their land. Moving them to Egypt is a military operation that could last years. … The peace we [Egyptians] have worked for would slip from our hands, as would a resolution to the Palestinian issue.”
Those words were spoken by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. One might think that they came in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s statement that he would “…like Egypt to take people, and I’d like Jordan to take people. You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, we just clean out that whole thing.”
Actually, Sisi spoke those words mere weeks after Israel began its genocidal operation in Gaza. He was speaking at a press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Schultz in Cairo on October 18, 2023. ….more
