After Egyptian positions that were limited to diplomatic condemnations of Israel's attacks on the Palestinians, starting with the events of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque, and ending with the continuous Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
The past two days have carried hotter, different positions on more than one track, raising some speculation and questions about the change of this position and what may be behind it.
The intensity of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry's diplomatic rhetoric about what is happening in the Palestinian territories increased, coupled with the official TV broadcasting of the Friday sermon that called for the support of the Palestinians from Al-Azhar Mosque, and the use of some politicians close to the regime a sharp tone against the Israeli attacks, as well as broad solidarity by the famous art, media and sports who They often reflect the mood of the system on some issues.
During the intense diplomatic contacts with many of his counterparts around the world;
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry described what is happening in the Palestinian territories as an aggression that must stop immediately, in order to inject the blood of the victims who go as a result of the military operations and the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip.
It seems that Israel has ignored Egyptian efforts made to contain the deteriorating situation, as Shoukry said that his country had contacted Israel for the sake of calm, but it "did not find the necessary response."
In the same context, some local news sites reported that the Egyptian Ministry of Health sent a number of ambulances near the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip, in preparation for receiving the injured of the Israeli attack in North Sinai hospitals.
Some questioned the reasons for the high temperature index of Egyptian reactions, and does this reflect a change in the official policy - under the regime of the current President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi - which previously talked about a "warmer peace" with Israel?
Does Cairo really want to return to owning the Palestinian file after it felt the danger of the file being transferred to the new normalization countries?
This constitutes real threats to Cairo's interests and harms the Palestinian cause.
While others said that these responses are still - until now, despite this tone more intense than usual - below the level of the grandiose event, and mere words, not actions, and have not been reflected in reducing the intensity of the burning and explosive situation in all the Palestinian territories despite its raging day after day, and that it comes in The context of venting popular anger, and ashes were spread in Laayoune, and that there are no real indications of its feasibility due to the absence or absence of a political decision.
Relief convoys and supplies, and volunteers to treat the injured ... Preparations and procedures announced by medical institutions in support of the Palestinian cause pic.twitter.com/Az0Gn3abiG
- Al Jazeera Egypt (@AJAEgypt) May 14, 2021
Relationships are at stake
In response to these questions, Ambassador Hussein Haridi - the former Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt - affirmed that "the Egyptian official position, according to the directions available to me, was working to establish a long-term truce to protect the Palestinian people from the Israeli aggression, and warned Israel against launching a ground invasion This warning is an indirect message that if this warning is overlooked, the Egyptian-Israeli relations will be severely damaged. "
Speaking to Al-Jazeera Net, Haridi stressed that Egyptian public opinion is extremely angry, and the Egyptian government responds in a diplomatic framework to the aspirations of its people, and the Israeli government must understand this message and make sure that Egypt stands with the struggle of the Palestinian people.
And if Egypt was trying to regain control of the Palestinian file - by throwing its diplomatic weight after the recent wave of Arab normalization - Haridi asserted that every time Egypt intervened to stop the Israeli escalation in the Palestinian territories, it was serious;
Because the Palestinian issue is an issue of Egyptian national security, despite the peace treaty with Israel, and no regime in Egypt can abandon its historical responsibilities towards that issue.
Unite the Palestinians to impose a new equation
In turn, the former Egyptian diplomat - Ambassador Masoum Marzouq - saw the unification of the Palestinian fronts inside, imposing new obligations on Egypt and the Arab countries, adding that "there have been Egyptian reservations for years on Hamas and its behavior, but the issue is now greater than Hamas, what is happening now of Israeli aggression." The Palestinians united inside and outside the Green Line, and became a single bloc in resisting that aggression. "
Speaking to Al-Jazeera Net, Marzouq stressed that no Arab regime can deny this fact or else it will place itself in front of a sweeping Arab popular trend, adding:
From what I receive from the statements of some friends abroad, there is also a change in international public opinion, and perhaps this is the main reason for what we will notice about some changes in some of the Arab governments ’positions in general.
Regarding the recent wave of normalization and its role in marginalizing the Egyptian role, Marzouk emphasized that carrying Egypt the Palestinian cause upon it was not a choice.
Because the facts of geography, history and politics have made this file one of its vital files, as for the fact that there are other countries that tried to progress during the last period within this file through normalization with Israel;
I do not think that normalization means a role or a stance, but rather it means scrambling and offering free rewards to Israel in contravention of the decisions of the Arab League itself, according to Marzouq.
- Cairo asks for a truce for hours to negotiate with the resistance in Gaza
- The Netanyahu government refused, the Egyptian delegation left in protest, and Cairo began to freeze many files with Israel - Egyptian Arab and international moves to condemn the aggression and end the suffering of the Palestinian people
- Mostafa Bakry (@BakryMP) May 14, 2021
Actions, not words
And through a series of tweets, Egyptian parliamentarian Mustafa Bakri - a journalist close to the authority and the security services - praised the steadfastness of the Palestinians, and said that he "redrawn the map in the whole region again, when he managed to hit Tel Aviv with missiles."
Bakri revealed that Egyptian medical teams are "receiving our wounded brothers from Palestine, and presidential instructions are to provide all means of treatment in Egyptian hospitals."
However, Egyptian politician Magdy Hamdan - deputy head of the Front Party - reduces the strength and efficacy of the official response in Egypt, despite the warnings and calls for the Foreign Minister’s messages to stop the aggression, and stresses that “we must differentiate between the official and popular positions, and between actions and words.”
In his speech to Al-Jazeera Net, the Egyptian politician explained that the popular position was expressed by Dr. Ahmed Omar Hashem in the Friday sermon at Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo, while the official position is determined by several things, including the "Camp David" peace agreement, which greatly enlarged Egypt's role.
According to Hamdan, the real change is not by issuing strong diplomatic statements or providing some humanitarian and medical aid, and trying to contain the situation, but rather by taking a strong reaction, such as expelling the Israeli ambassador in Cairo, or summoning the Egyptian ambassador from there, stopping some of the current cooperation files, and linking them to the cessation of aggression. And the resumption of peace efforts towards the establishment of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
The deputy head of the Front Party considered that the real change also consists in opening the public atmosphere, allowing the Egyptian people to demonstrate and express their opinion, and to show the strength of popular support and support for the Palestinian cause, which would have forced Israel to retreat and stop the aggression.
A surprising call .. In a live broadcast on Egyptian television, Friday sermon in # Al-Azhar calls for the formation of an Islamic deterrent force and calls on Arab and Muslim rulers to abandon their silence # Palestine # Jerusalem # Al-Aqsa Mosque #
Gaza_UnderAttack #PalestineUnderAttack #GenocideinGaza pic.twitter
- Al Jazeera Mubasher (@ajmubasher) May 14, 2021
Formal sermon
The Friday sermon at Al-Azhar Mosque yesterday attracted the attention of many;
Especially when Al-Khatib - who is a member of the Council of Senior Scholars in Al-Azhar and is not far from the trends of the authority - called for the formation of an "Islamic deterrent force in the Arab countries and Islam" and described the aggressors against Jerusalem as "rats", stressing that "what is taken by force can only be recovered by force. .
Ahmed Omar Hashem surprised everyone by saying, "Oh, the world order, whether the United Nations, the Security Council, human rights organizations, rulers and presidents, stand before your duty. You must be one line to extract Jerusalem from the hands of the rats of the earth and deter those who have been wronged."
Some interacted with the Friday sermon at the Al-Azhar Mosque, and they argued that its coming with such strength and intensity not known throughout the era of the current regime is a security and political decision, and a clear indication of the change in the Egyptian position, they said.
While others saw that reality belies the imagination, that actions are not words, and that what is happening is nothing but cosmetic scenes, the aim of which is to calm the Egyptian street.
On the other hand, Twitter users talked about the direction of the Egyptian position towards the interests of Cairo, which are affected by the Israeli policy and the new normalization countries.
The Friday sermon was transmitted from Al-Azhar Mosque with the sermon of Ahmed Omar Hashem from Al-Aqsa in a strong tone, this is a security and political decision and a clear indication of the Egyptian position
- Ahmed Al-ish (@AhmdAlish) May 14, 2021
The need mesh concept
Friday sermon from Al -
Azhar .. Dr. Ahmed Omar Hashem said that "what was
taken by
force can only be
restored by
force" and called for " the
formation of the
power of
Islamic deterrence" and called on
Arab rulers and Muslims to "abandon their silence
sense that Abolibdh Balab game
- Du3aa (@ doaa11101) May 14, 2021
"What is taken by force can only be recovered by force" This
was the title of the Friday sermon at Al-Azhar Mosque in Egypt, describing the Zionists as the splinter of the earth, calling for the formation of an Islamic deterrent force, stopping negotiations, and calling on Islamic governments to break their silence ..
And the sermon was broadcast on the Egyptian state television of
God. Bigger, Egypt ❤️❤️❤️
- Saeed (@ S88Ashi) May 14, 2021
When words contradict actions, the truth emerges,
then why will you open the crossings tomorrow ... And what about Dr. Omar Hashem’s sermon today in Al-Azhar today ??
You can not complete the acting for one day, you
breathe lies and deceit pic.twitter.com/DCD47fNIY6
- Um youssef (@umyoussef2_22) May 14, 2021
Almost all countries held demonstrations in support of Palestine except Egypt, unfortunately, I mean ... By God Almighty. We who are occupiers, not Palestine long
live
Palestine❤️❤️❤️🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
- 🇪🇬 🇪🇬 🇪🇬 🇵🇸 (@YoussefSewalem) May 14, 2021