ALwaght- Since the time that Abdel Fatah el-Sisi rose to power in Egypt through a military coup, the Israelis have become optimistic that the diplomatic ties with Egypt could be restored to the pre-revolution level. In the shadow of rise of the new Egyptian president to power, the Israeli officials and senior experts have called Abdel Fatah el-Sisi as Israeli regime’s ally, considering his existence in power as a very appropriate choice for them to achieve their goals.
Danny Ayalon, the former Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, Nitzan Nuriel, the former head of Counter-Terrorism Bureau as well as Tal Schneider, the prominent Israeli political expert have unanimously noted that el-Sisi was Tel Aviv’s new treasure and its outstanding ally in the Arab world. This Israelis’ prediction more than any other time has now become a reality. The Sisi’s government has put the Gaza Strip’s people further under pressure in a bid for serving the Israeli regime. Major General Nasr Salem, a former official in Egypt air force intelligence service has maintained that the Egyptian government had destroyed %99 of Gaza tunnels. He added that the Egyptian army forces destroyed any tunnel immediately after discovering it, and so far %99 of the tunnels in Gaza had been demolished. This Egyptian official’s remarks are coming while the Palestinian interior ministry in Gaza has published some figures, suggesting that Rafah Border Crossing since the start of 2015 up to its end has remained closed for 343 days. This was the worst report published about Rafah Border Crossing’s performance since the 2009. According to the figures, in the present time 25,000 people are living in critical conditions in Gaza Strip and they are in desperate need to travel abroad through the border crossing. The Rafah Border Crossing links Gaza to Egypt and Gaza’s seized people urgently need it to import food and medicine to the besieged strip. Since the 2013, the Egyptian authorities have almost completely closed the crossing in the face of the Palestinians. On the other side, after a three-year break, Hazem Khairat has been named Egyptian ambassador in the Palestinian occupied territories. According to the Israeli media, Hazem Khairat arrived in Tel Aviv last Friday to start his job there. Atef Salem, former Egyptian envoy to the Israeli regime, only in 2012 was fully residing in Tel Aviv but Khairat is set to be the Egypt’s first full-time ambassador who would be resident in Tel Aviv. It is worth mentioning that Egypt in the time of Anwar Sadat, former Egyptian president, was the first Arab state to recognize establishment of the Israeli regime, starting diplomatic relations with Tel Aviv. Egypt was known as number one enemy of the Israeli regime in the time of Anwar Sadat, but Hosni Mubarak, former Egyptian president, has turned as Tel Aviv’s friend. The 2011 uprising in Egypt has revived the rays of hope for the country to return to its past grandeur and its opposition with the Tel Aviv regime, however, el-Sisi’s military coup has destroyed all the hopes, turning them to disappointment. In a time that Palestine’s case has been driven out of the Arab countries’ agenda due to the Muslim world’s internecine conflicts, Egypt’s getting close to the Israeli regime is seen to be as a biggest treason to Palestinian cause.
