Egyptian president says no visit as long as war crime is on agenda
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has cancelled a planned visit to Washington DC for talks with US president Donald Trump over Trump’s declared intent to ‘take over’ and ‘own’ Gaza and remove around two million survivors of Israel’s genocide – an unequivocal war crime of forced displacement.
Sisi, according to Egyptian government sources, has said that he will not meet Trump as long as the Gaza grab remains on Trump’s agenda – doubtless from fear of the Egyptian people’s reaction if he was seen sitting in the Oval Office alongside Trump as Trump spouts his genocidal criminality against the Palestinians.
The decision comes just a day after Jordan’s King Abdullah II appalled millions by appearing willing to accommodate Trump’s power-crazy criminality, despite aides saying later on his behalf that Jordan rejects it. Abdullah told reporters:
The point is how do we make this work in a way that is good for everybody? We have to look at the best interests of the US, and the people in the region, especially to my people of Jordan. The first stage is to take 2,000 children with cancer out of the Gaza Strip.
He was heavily criticised for this comment, especially after earlier indications that Jordan was willing to declare war on Israel if it tries to force out the population of Gaza onto its territory, with many asking why the interests of the US come into the picture at all in the region and where the interests of the Palestinian people of Gaza come in.
Meanwhile, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu echoed an equally criminal Trump comment that if all Israeli ‘hostages’ are not released by noon on Saturday – a requirement that was never in the ceasefire agreement, which Israel has breached daily – Israel will resume its mass assault on the people of Gaza, during which it has killed an estimated 200-300,000 people, mostly women and children. Some have taken Trump’s comment that his plan would required the removal of around 1.5 million people as an indication that the US knows the real murder toll is even larger, around 700,000 of Gaza’s pre-genocide population of 2.2 million.
UK PM Keir Starmer and his ministers have refused to condemn Trump’s plan, instead dancing around it in vague language in the hope of avoiding public disgust.
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No surprising the UK’s government aren’t standing up to Trump. For too long now, the UK has acted as a vassal State to the US.
It started with Blair and continue under Starmer. Perhaps the UK will become one day soon the 51st State of the US.
Unfortunately true.
I think it is now high time to change the approach to the USofA and tell them to butt out. Their needs should be seen as immaterial and they themselves be given a very wide berth.
Kid starver is doing what he seems to excel at : Sitting on the fence again.
Quite right stand up to the man-baby.