114: Why don’t we talk about Egypt?
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Haviv Rettig Gur
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🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Our current question: why don’t we talk about Egypt?
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| 0:00.0 | Moving on to the next question asked by our listeners and viewers, |
| 0:09.1 | what is the role of Egypt in the ongoing conflict historically and today? |
| 0:14.4 | Okay, this is a big one. |
| 0:16.3 | We have a video about Jordan. |
| 0:18.3 | It was quite popular. |
| 0:20.3 | People were really interested. People |
| 0:21.5 | didn't realize that Jordan actually tried to take the West Bank and build out of it a greater Jordan |
| 0:26.6 | and gave the Palestinian citizenship. And in the Jericho conference, Palestinian elites from Jordan |
| 0:31.6 | actually agreed to become Jordanians. And that that was the game plan right up until 1967 when Israel begged |
| 0:40.7 | Jordan not to join in the war. Jordan chose to join in the war, and Israel ends up taking |
| 0:44.4 | the West Bank. The Egyptian story is, in that sense, antithetical to Palestinian nationalism. |
| 0:52.7 | Egypt did not want Palestinian nationalism. It did want |
| 0:56.5 | a Palestinian symbol to justify its own domination of the Arab world, but it didn't actually |
| 1:04.3 | want a strong Palestinian national movement. And in fact, you see that because in the 48-49 war, |
| 1:10.5 | what Israel calls its independence war, |
| 1:12.7 | Egypt ends up in control of the Gaza Strip. |
| 1:16.0 | Instead of maybe annexing it, granting citizenship to the Palestinians in Gaza, it actually |
| 1:23.5 | occupies the territory and institutes a very strict, very repressive military administration. |
| 1:30.8 | Gazans are under Egyptian military rule, very oppressive Egyptian military rule, |
| 1:37.1 | from 1948 until 1967 when the Israelis pushed the Egyptians not only out of Gaza, but out of |
| 1:43.7 | Sinai. |
| 1:45.0 | And unlike Jordan, Egypt didn't give them citizenship. |
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