Monday’s summit at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh was the first such meeting between the top leaders of Egypt and Israel since 2011, a long gap that spanned the region’s Arab heads of state and the longest-serving Israeli prime minister. The middle shows distrust. Recently replaced Benjamin Netanyahu.
But this in no way dilutes the importance of time in the present context.
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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will likely be playing defense in New York as the Arab team, as well as the US, Europe and others, are trying to force the leader of the right-wing Yamina party to withdraw from his publicly announced position of refusal. Will be Any diplomatic talks with the Palestinians on a globally supported two-state solution.
Unlike his predecessors Netanyahu and Shimon Peres, Bennett is still a novice in regional and world politics, and he will soon understand that what you say in public will haunt you back. In an interview with the New York Times published on August 24, Bennett was probably honest in expressing his thinking when ruling in public.
out of any dialogue on Palestine
Sovereignty during his tenure as Prime Minister.
Past Israeli leaders have regularly said the opposite, verbally endorsing the talks while they didn’t do much for them to happen. The late Yitzhak Shamir once said that Israel would talk for 10 years without consequences, while Perez was famous for quoting an Arab proverb saying that there is a blessing in the movement.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Monday surrounded Bennett by talking about the importance of the two-state solution and the need for direct dialogue, while Israeli leaders stood by him, diplomatically refuting the Egyptian leader. were unable, while clearly unhappy. is being said.
Egypt-Israel meeting led by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on September 13, 2021. (credit: Coby Gideon/GPO)
The Director-General of the Palestinian Foreign Ministry, Ahmed Diq, picked up on the Sisi stand, telling Media Line, “We value the position of President Sisi of Egypt at the Sharm el-Sheikh summit in which he stood up for the Palestinian cause.”
Diek said it was a reflection of “strong unity in favor of peace based on international law and a two-state solution”. He also commended Egypt for its support for the reconstruction of Gaza after the most recent attack, when Cairo succeeded in brokering a ceasefire between Palestinians in Gaza after 11 days of violence.
Israeli army last May.
To focus on Israel’s regional policies to partner with several Gulf countries.
“Despite a fundamental disagreement on the desirability of the two-state vision, the summit signals a sign of more cooperative Israel-Egypt relations. Potential fruits in the Israeli-Palestinian context are likely to emerge in the form of coordination of Israeli-Egyptian Gaza stabilization efforts with the PA,” Zalzberg said.
Hisham Qassem, former publisher of the Cairo Times and Al-Masri al-Youm, told The Media Line that the summit could be described as a “scrapbook meeting” – the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance between Natural Gas, Gaza, GERD (Egypt). Dam dispute – Sudan and Ethiopia), economic cooperation, increasing Egyptian military presence in Sinai, Iran, and more.
“The CC is trying to aggravate its fragile regional position; They need to ensure that the Abrahamic Agreement does not trample the Camp David Accord without the UAE stepping on its toes, which still remains a vital economic support for Egypt,” he said.
The Egyptian President “also seeks to win the favor of the Biden/democratic administration and seeks to gain regional dominance through the Gaza Reconstruction Plan or the exchange of prisoners and bodies of dead Israeli soldiers, or any other regional initiative.” Where Israeli support can be useful,” Kasem said.
Hamadeh Hamadeh, a documentary filmmaker in Gaza, told The Media Line that Gazan is beginning to see improvements.
“The price of a ton of cement has dropped below NIS 400 ($125) and as a result, people are beginning to notice the change. Also, asking families whose homes were destroyed by Israeli shelling to present their papers. Contact has been made so that they can get their homes repaired.
Hamadeh, who also volunteers to help rehabilitate released political prisoners, told The Media Line that the issue is still explosive and has raised the political temperature in the strip.
“People are emotional and concerned about the condition of their loved ones in Israeli prisons and want to ensure that the issue of Palestinian political prisoners gets priority in such conversations,” he said.