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#EGYPT: What does President Sisi want? HAISAM Hassanein is an adjunct fellow at FDD,

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🗓️ 7 June 2024

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#EGYPT: What does President Sisi want? HAISAM Hassanein is an adjunct fellow at FDD,
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4696303-to-help-israel-washington-needs-to-get-tougher-on-cairo/

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This is a series, I on the world, I'm John Bachelor.

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Cairo, the location of negotiations over the hostages, a ceasefire or halting the violence in

0:15.9

Gaza Cairo also right now a question mark very large question mark theF is taking control of the Philadelphia route, that's the side of

0:27.6

Gaza that's along the Egyptian border, the Sinai, an international border. In taking control, the IDF now identifies at least 20 tunnels.

0:38.0

It does not say those tunnels lead into Sinai, but they're right within 100 yards of Sinai.

0:45.0

Tunnels into Gaza.

0:47.8

I welcome Malcolm Holine Conference of Presidents,

0:50.0

Major American Jewish organizations to help me with his diplomatic minefield and we're

0:56.7

pleased to be joined by Hassan Hassanin.

1:00.8

Hassan is at the Foundation for the defense of democracies to help us understand Egypt's

1:06.8

explanation or non-explanation for what the IDF now identifies as tunnels under the Philadelphia route.

1:14.8

Hyssum, a very good day to you.

1:17.1

What we're looking at here is a diplomatic tangle.

1:19.5

In addition to learning about the tunnels, I've been told that for now Israel's decided to keep

1:25.6

this behind closed doors. Is that accurate and what does it mean that Cairo denies the

1:30.7

tunnels are there? Good evening to you and your audience.

1:35.0

Thanks for having me.

1:36.0

I think what you said is accurate to a big extent.

1:41.0

One way to explain the current dilemma in Egypt-Israel relations is that it was discovered

1:47.6

that even though the CC regime was un-fi it was it is an offshoot of the Muslim brotherhood but for some reason as Israel

2:00.0

started to get closer to Rafah the the Egyptians began to get hysterical because the new

2:04.8

their secret by a way or another will be revealed, which is that there have been tunnels

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