First published at 18:45 UTC on May 14th, 2024.
Egypt finally appear to have had their enough is enough moment, as they turn their backs on Israel and side with South Africa at the ICJ.
Right, so Israel have now seized control of the Rafah Border Crossing in the last several days, and are now bloc…
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Egypt finally appear to have had their enough is enough moment, as they turn their backs on Israel and side with South Africa at the ICJ.
Right, so Israel have now seized control of the Rafah Border Crossing in the last several days, and are now blocking any aid whatsoever from getting through, in complete violation of the rulings handed down by the ICJ, which Israel are of course ignoring, the ICJ as Netanyahu and his hard right genocidal regime being antisemitic, because of course they are. South Africa in the last few days have made another appeal to the ICJ to review their position and the ruling they've handed down already, to beef it up as it were in response to Israel's incursions into Rafah already and especially in light of the border crossing being seized. But as welcome as it is to see South Africa continuing it's moral crusade, seemingly single handed even after 7 months of genocide, the question others are asking is where exactly are Egypt in all of this? Egypt controls one side of the Rafah Border Crossing of course, it is on the Gaza-Egyptian Border after all and by seizing control of the Gazan side, Israel have violated decades old peace accords with Egypt and seemingly with no consequence. Has Egypt lost it's collective spine? They've been involved in the peace process negotiations quite heavily, are they being punished for that by a nation with no intentions of peace? Well certainly the question has been asked, but actually Egypt aren't happy and they have no stood up to be counted.
Right so, firs toff let's deal with the ramifications regarding Egypt Israel relations when it comes to Israel having seized the Rafah Border Crossing, because actually there is legislation that prohibits Israel doing so, and it has stood for pretty much as long as I've been alive, the so called Camp David Accords coming into this world in the same year I did, back in 1978.
Now Israel and Egypt have had several conflicts in the past, five times they have gone to war ..
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