#EGYPT: Will Cairo close the Hamas tunnels to Sinai?? Haisam Hassanein is an adjunct fellow at FDD, analyzing Israel’s relations with Arab states and Muslim countries. Previously, he was a research fellow at the Washington Institute, focused on Egyptian-
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#EGYPT: Will Cairo close the Hamas tunnels to Sinai??
Haisam Hassanein is an adjunct fellow at FDD, analyzing Israel’s relations with Arab states and Muslim countries. Previously, he was a research fellow at the Washington Institute, focused on Egyptian-Israeli relations and U.S. policy toward the Middle East. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
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| 0:00.0 | This is a CBSI on the world. I'm John Bachelor with Malcolm online conference of |
| 0:09.0 | presidents major American Jewish organizations and we're very pleased to be joined from the |
| 0:13.8 | Washington Institute by Hycem Husanine, adjunct fellow at the Foundation for the |
| 0:18.6 | Defense of Democracy, previously at the Washington Institute, now to help us with Egypt. Part of the puzzle of the |
| 0:26.1 | Gaza War is that the Gaza Strip ends with the border with Egypt, the Philadelphia line it was once called. |
| 0:35.0 | However, now the mystery is, how does Hamas get all these weapons and rockets and |
| 0:42.2 | resupply? How does Hamas take care of its wounded are |
| 0:45.9 | there tunnels from raffa underneath the international border into Egypt does |
| 0:51.6 | Egypt know about it? What about C.C? Is he with or |
| 0:56.2 | against the Israeli success against Hamas? Hamas is a adjunct, an attachment to the Muslim brothers who with Sisi has opposed these many years. |
| 1:09.1 | Hyssum, I ask too many questions that come right to you. |
| 1:12.3 | Cairo is unstable, it has a difficult economy |
| 1:15.9 | Where is it in the war in Gaza? What side is ci-cihon? Good evening to you guys and thanks thanks having me. Let me start by saying that the |
| 1:25.9 | Gaza crisis offered an opportunity for the CC regime. Just go back before October 7th, |
| 1:32.2 | the country and the regime itself was struggling with popularity |
| 1:36.5 | on the Egyptian street because people looked at his rule for 10 years and they were wondering |
| 1:41.9 | what have been the offered. |
| 1:43.2 | The socioeconomic conditions have been getting worse from one year to the other. |
| 1:48.5 | Two, also the regional standing of the country, which is the biggest in the Arab-Bordid population wise |
| 1:55.0 | also diminished drastically in the past 10 years because the country was so busy |
| 2:00.9 | with its internal problems. So all of a sudden October 7th |
| 2:05.0 | happen and President C. C. C. finds himself at the center of attention. All |
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