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| Egypt: Committed to fighting terrorism |
| 2022-08-26 |
| [AlAhram] A battle for development to eliminate the sociocultural incubators of extremism is underway in Sinai along with a military battle to uproot the terrorist groups The Egyptian approach to addressing regional threats holds that the Paleostinian question is at the root of the region’s problems and that any serious attempt to resolve it must treat it as such and avoid using other priorities, such as the Iranian threat, to circumvent it. The first clause has been decisively disproved by President Trump’s Abraham Accords and related developments in quietly improved relations between Israel and certain other Moslem countries in the region short of signed formal peace treaties. But Egypt was not involved in those, making it look and feel less important in the world. This does not affect the fact that Egypt opposes Iran’s regional behaviour, however. Tehran’s support for and utilisation as proxies of bully boy groups such as the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... |
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