The Egyptians' reactions to President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi's statements, on Wednesday, regarding the Renaissance Dam, varied, depending on their different understanding of the significance of what was stated in these statements regarding behavior in the face of the Ethiopian position, which Cairo describes as intransigent.
Activists on social media were divided into two groups, the first of which was that Sisi continued his recent expression of a firm position on the Renaissance Dam, based on the phrase "all options are open" that he mentioned in his statements, while the other team focused on what he considered a retreat from Sisi. He appeared through his discussion of the dire consequences of the wars, recalling the 1967 setback and before that the Yemen war in 1962 and their negative impact on Egypt.
During his statements, which came during the opening of the "Smart and Secured Publications Complex", Sisi said that cooperation and agreement are better for all, calling for knowledge of the consequences of military confrontations, and recalling the military confrontations in Iraq and their impact on it.
Al-Sisi sent a message to the "brothers" in Ethiopia, saying, "Do not blush a stage. You touch a point of water from Egypt .. The options are all open .. Cooperation is better." Affects Egypt's water rights.
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# Al-Sisi says that cooperation and agreement are better for everyone in the issue of # Dam Al-Nahda, calling everyone to know the consequences of military confrontations pic.twitter.com/sd5Icf36qP
- Al Jazeera Egypt (@AJA_Egypt) April 7, 2021
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# Sisi: I say to the brothers in # Ethiopia, we do not want to reach a point where a drop of water from # Egypt will be touched because all options will be open pic.twitter.com/LyX8oJQnBg
- Al Jazeera Egypt (@AJA_Egypt) April 7, 2021
Al-Sisi's supporters praised his statements and his threat that all options are open, and saw that they confirm his steadfast stance on compromising Egypt's water security.
Some of them considered the statements as a last chance for Ethiopia to spare the region the scourge of war, to absolve the international community of responsibility, and a message to the world that the Egyptian military solution has approached.
Egypt is walking with assets to another level. The same… All options are open - we coordinate with our brothers in Sudan, and we will announce to the world the justice of our cause within the framework of international law.
Egypt is always defective
- ﮼﮼﮼﮼ (@RaghdaaElSaeed) April 7, 2021
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- samy443 (@ ahmedsamyelgam1) April 7, 2021
# Al-Sisi,
whose work, our Lord, will not change him. People hand over your tongue.
Deep owe the boss
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The message of the President of Egypt for the region, not only to Ethiopia, pic.twitter.com/j559dHtinu
- Ahmed Said (@ASaidOfficial) April 7, 2021
Egypt, in the past five years, studied the structure of the dam, its fulcrums, its weaknesses, and the plan for its destruction, neutralization, or control was prepared in advance with the smallest details, and studied even the side effects of its destruction from a geological and geostrategic standpoint, and the Prime Minister of Ethiopia tells you all options are open!
pic.twitter.com/23qi6mTK2N
- 100 Million Egyptians (@HnbnyB) April 7, 2021
A new threat from Sisi to Ethiopia
All options are open if you miss a point of water
👈 The confrontation will cost you very much.
🤚 No deed, our Lord, you will not change it
Let us cooperate better for you and us # Al-Sisi
The video complements my channel https://t.co/ej9H949Su4 pic.twitter.com/PDGqEgIMSn
- Long live Egypt (@HAREDY ______ 7) April 7, 2021
On the other hand, the opponents saw that Sisi's talk about the costs of the military confrontations is a clear retreat from his previous statements in which he declared that touching water is a red line, and that the impact of the encroachment on water will have serious repercussions on the entire region.
Some commentators have said that Sisi must remember that he himself is the most important reason for Ethiopia's intransigence in signing the agreement of principles in exchange for a worthless verbal promise from the Ethiopian prime minister.
# Al-Sisi from How Many Days: The waters of the Nile are a red line.
Al-Sisi today: You saw the 1967 war, and what were its results!
I mean, forget any military solution to the dam crisis so that the setback is not repeated.
This is a curse on # Egypt,
may God have mercy on the martyr President # Muhammad_Morsi, who mocked him when he said: Which drop of water is the price of our blood
- Samir El-Aarki (@s_alaraki) April 7, 2021
Al-Sisi's statements today prove beyond any doubt that it is part of the conspiracy and I think that we no longer have time to comment on this nonsense that he came out with, and the people are boiling, and the solution is in the hands of the army and institutions, sovereignty and history will hold everyone accountable
- Hussam Al-Ghamry (@HossamAlGhamry) April 7, 2021
Al-Sisi in his speech of weakness and dishonor: There is a god who knows it!
Yesterday you were a pharaoh ... and today there is a god who knows how ?!
And who is God for you, selfish? .. And O Jabbar!
- Salim Azouz (@ selimazouz1) April 7, 2021
⛔ Open the fields, Sisi, so that you have a mandate and order to deal firmly with the Ethiopian intransigence and prevent the possible thirst for the Egyptians !!! # Dam Al-Nahda # Al-Sisi # Good morning
- Haytham Abokhalil (@ haythamabokhal1) April 7, 2021
A former government source: The
National Security Adviser, specialists in intelligence, foreign affairs, defense and irrigation, warned # Sisi before signing the agreement with # Ethiopia that it would weaken Egypt's position, and an acknowledgment of building the Renaissance Dam without any guarantees or obligations, but decided that he would sign the agreement, and could personally influence officials and opinion Ethiopian general
- Ahmed Atwan AHMED ATWAN (@ ahmedatwan66) April 7, 2021
This is a sauce and an option, not a war # Sisi pic.twitter.com/4ttUP2ena0
- Asim Bin Thabet (@ STZMYMp4146x9af) April 7, 2021
Whoever spoils something, effectively fix it, and also do not tamper with something that does not belong to you, and you have given yourself the right to go there and sign the paper of principles, the argument for them to steal the historical rights of Egypt in the Nile River. Al-Sisi spin
- Sheikh Al Arab (@ 199wr6DXSQKItMn) April 7, 2021
He will sign the legitimacy of building the dam and let the dead bank race over a project that I couldn’t find anyone financing it, and after his crime he says, January 25, why?
Oh uncle, fear, stay and respect the minds of people who will not leave you without an account. Is the revolution that signed the agreement, you maddened liars?
Is the revolution the one who came to tell us a salvation remains, this is the origin of an oath?
- Amr Waked (@amrwaked) April 7, 2021
# Sudan has begun storing one billion meters of water in anticipation of the second filling of the dam
And Al-Sisi directs citizens to conserve every drop of water
They both acknowledge that the dam will take salvation and that they are not able to save our water and get us, and that # Ethiopia has imposed its will on them, and we have to deal with the situation and store and preserve what we have?
- MZ (@ 79kwmfovpODVDBQ) April 7, 2021
The Egyptian President had said a few days ago, that taking one drop of Egypt's share in the Nile waters is considered a transgression of the red lines, and that it will be met by an earthquake response that leads to destabilization of the entire region, and that no one imagines that it is far from Egypt's ability.
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said that the Kinshasa meetings - which began last Saturday - did not achieve progress, and did not lead to an agreement regarding the re-launch of the Renaissance Dam negotiations, and accused Ethiopia of rejecting all the proposals and alternatives put forward by Egypt and supported by Sudan to advance the negotiations, and it also said that it rejected Sudan’s proposal, which it supported. Cairo to form a quadripartite mediation committee.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry confirmed that the Ethiopian side was obstinate and obstructed any effort, and that Egypt and Sudan had provided a lot of flexibility in the negotiations, indicating that Cairo and Khartoum would move towards international parties.
On the other hand, Ethiopia is moving forward with its plans to complete the construction and operation of the dam in accordance with the agreement of principles, and the Ethiopian Minister of Water and Irrigation, Slichi Bakli, said that his country has proceeded with the process of the second filling of the Renaissance Dam, and rejects the efforts of Egypt and Sudan to enter international mediators on the crisis line, being an abortion of the role The African Union and an attempt to block the completion of the Renaissance Dam.