Letting little tidbits like this escape might keep assassins at bay. As for using a defector, it might be a case of “ do us this favor and we won’t kill your family that is still in our country.”
Egypt has more to gain from an alliance with Israel than it does with an alliance with anyone else in the region.
Israel is stable. It’s a neighbor that can be counted on to be rational.
Egypt closes the Gaza entry points on it’s own because it too fears the idiotic Arabs on the West Bank and Gaza. Why would it want the Arabs to take over Israel? The Arabs on that land would turn on Egypt in about five minutes.
It would become a major thorn in Egypt’s side.
Egypt is basically a one bomb country. Knock out the Aswan Dam and you flood all of the big population centers along the Nile. Add radioactivity if you please...because even without a nuke the dam is easily destroyed. You kill millions with one strike, and effectively starve most of the rest. Al-Sisi is not insane like the Moslem crazies.
So the Israelis nuke the Aswan dam.
Game over.
Obama and Kerry gave the green light to ME thugs to attack Israel... that was one of the messages of the negotiations. Why should Arabs wait for an Iranian nuke when they know Obama...
Sisi has been very accomodating toward Israel, and has been a real enemy of Hamas. This headline and article do not jive with reality and are to be vetted before being believed. It might be disinformation.
It’s hard for me to buy this. Egypt isn’t what you’d call stable. Inviting the Jews to invade, and possibly, wipe them out is, well . . .
Another poster here rightfully points out that Israel is one of the best, most effective, and cost-free military bulwark against Iran, and Russia for that matter.
They recently tried to cede their own land in order to finally settle the Palestinian question once and for all. They offered a permanent home for Palestinians, in exchange for them dropping the matter of destroying the Jewish race from their charter. That was really the only stipulation.
They refused.
I think everybody in the region is preparing for war, and anyone sharing a border with the Russians are too.
Thanks Obola!