Posted on 06/03/2025 12:12:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
...He has a strong friendship with Mahmoud Al-Sisi, the General Intelligence officer and son of the Egyptian president. This has opened doors to business with the army directly, without anyone's supervision or harassment.
Al-Sisi's son helped him establish the Organi Group, making him a very wealthy tycoon within a few years. During that period the group developed extensive partnerships with the National Service Projects Organisation and the Egyptian Armed Forces' Engineering Authority...
However, the biggest business and the peak of cooperation between Al-Organi and Mahmoud Al-Sisi was in Hajj Ibrahim's birthplace, North Sinai. After Al-Sisi came to power, he proceeded to wipe the Egyptian cities of Rafah and Sheikh Zuweid from the map. He destroyed them completely, displaced the inhabitants, and established a buffer zone between Egypt and the Gaza Strip to a depth of five kilometres in Sinai. He completed his mission by flooding the tunnels linking Egyptian Rafah and its Palestinian counterpart under the border with the Gaza Strip.
Al-Sisi tightened his grip on the border and closed the Rafah crossing for years, with no one exiting or entering without permission or coordination through one company known to the Palestinians as Hala Consulting and Tourism. It is owned by the Organi Group, but it is not registered in the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism's company guide. On its Facebook page, the company's address appears as Nasr City, while the Egyptian tourism company guide shows another company under the name Hala Tourism, registered as number 1233 with an address in Zamalek. This means that Organi's company established in 2019 reports directly to the Egyptian General Intelligence, and no other party in the country has the right to monitor its work.
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This article first appeared in Arabi21 on 3 February 2024.
Humanitarian aid trucks sent by UNRWA and Red Crescent pass through Rafah Border Crossing on Egyptian border as they drive to a storage of UNRWA, in Rafah, Gaza on December 18, 2023
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Just like the U.S. deep state and American backed NGOs, a spiders web of symbiotic influences helping finance each other.
They all use the same secret handshake — a brown bag stuffed with cash.
In defense of Gen. Sisi, he did imprison the Muslim Brotherhood leadership and has kept MB from being a major threat of terrorism. Also I read that he has protected the Christian community and had the army rebuild some churches and homes destroyed by the MB a few years ago.
I agree, he also had actual popular support, as opposed to the Obama-Hillary-mediashills astroturf of his jihadist predecessor. IOW, there's no valid comparison between the Morsi stooges who were "massacred" and our January 6th 'deplorables'.
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