Tel Aviv: Jumping into the unknown – Middle East Monitor
▻https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190719-tel-aviv-jumping-into-the-unknown
I genuinely believe that most pessimists, including Abdel Nasser himself, did not think the day would come when he’d see an Egyptian embassy in Israel, after all of the pure blood of thousands of Egyptians was shed in the wars with Israel in 1956, 1967, and after his death in 1973, and that Netanyahu would attend a celebration of his revolution in Egypt.
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Why is Egypt importing Israeli gas after announcing the discovery of the giant Zohr gas field in regional Egyptian waters? The total gas in place in Zohr is 30 trillion cubic feet, which is enough to cover Egypt’s gas needs. Also, how did Egypt go from being a source of gas for Israel until 2012, which stopped due to suspicious attacks on the gas line crossing through Sinai and therefore Egypt, was forced to pay several billions of dollars as a result of rulings against it? The first ruling was issued by the International Chamber of Commerce in Geneva, which stipulated that the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) must pay compensation to the East Mediterranean Gas Company (EMG) totalling to $288m. In EMG’s second case, it demanded that the Egyptian government pay $8 billion in compensation for halting gas supplies to Israel’s electric company. A settlement was reached in this matter, and Egypt agreed to pay $500 million over 8 and a half years in exchange for completing the deal to export Israeli gas to Egypt.
Cairo has taken measures that pose a significant danger to Egypt’s national security in the course of its relations with Israel after the Egyptian parliament rejected a proposal by an MP to ban Egyptian citizenship to those carrying Israeli or Palestinian citizenship. However, the latter has already been implemented, as the Arab states agreed not to grant Palestinians citizenship in countries hosting them to prevent the liquidation of the Palestinian identity. How about Israeli citizenship? Will we be seeing Israelis carrying Egyptian citizenship, after paying $10,000 and owning flat, occupying vital positions in Egypt in just a few years? This is a hazardous matter, but who is listening? Who is aware? Who understands this?