Moustafa Elfeki: Egypt should seek help from Israel to solve the Renaissance Dam crisis

Cairo -

For the second time in a few days, the former Egyptian politician and diplomat, Mostafa El-Feky, returns to mentioning Israel as a way to solve the Renaissance Dam crisis, stressing that it has an influence on Ethiopia as well as the United States and Russia that enables it to resolve the crisis, pointing to its old desire to be one of the downstream countries. by the Nile River.

During an interview with the “Happening in Egypt” program, presented by the media, Sherif Amer, on the Saudi-owned satellite channel MBC Egypt, on Tuesday evening, El-Feki, who currently holds the position of Director of the Library of Alexandria, said that Egypt has to rely on resolving the crisis. On unconventional solutions and contacts with countries that have a real impact.

The Egyptian politician indicated in his dialogue that Egypt strips itself of its tools because of "ideals", while politics does not know ideals, calling on Egypt to persuade Israel to help it solve the crisis of the Renaissance Dam, because of its great influence on all parties.

Israel is an estuary country

The former diplomat stressed that Israel's conviction of the need to support Egypt in the issue of the Renaissance Dam is capable of changing the American position on the crisis, and even capable of changing the Russian position as well, pointing out that the Egyptians do not perceive "Israel's indirect influence on the international decision-making powers."

The director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina explained that Israel had requested mediation in the Renaissance Dam crisis, but Egypt refused for fear that it would “give the cat the key to repetition.” They had the water card at the time to encourage them to end the peace negotiations, but the situation now calls for thinking about this matter, he said.

Israel for the second time

It is noteworthy that this is not the first time that Mustafa al-Fiqi has called for heading to Israel, as he had previously referred to it, last week, as part of the solutions in the context of his review of papers still owned by Egypt, including “non-Arab” countries, in reference to Israel, and that it is able to Putting pressure on Ethiopia, refusing to say that "Israel is part of the problem."

In the same program, El-Feki demanded to open the doors with everyone and talk to Israel, "You say (you tell him) I have a peace agreement between you and me that I have never broken despite all your provocations, how (how) do you go to help a state, and you are the one who is holding (responsible for) the electrical project, And you are the one who protects (the one who protects) the dam, and you do something that harms us. We said neither harm nor harm.”

Mubarak Secretary

It is worth noting that Mostafa El-Feki is a veteran diplomat who worked as an information secretary for the late Egyptian President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak between 1985 and 1992, and was a member of the ruling National Democratic Party during the Mubarak era, and then resigned on February 5, 2011, following the January 25 revolution.

El-Feki also served as Egypt’s ambassador to Austria, and a non-resident ambassador to the Republics of Slovakia and Slovenia. He also served as Egypt’s delegate to international organizations in Vienna, then Egypt’s delegate to the League of Arab States and served as Assistant Foreign Minister for Arab Affairs.

Al-Fiqi was also Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations and National Security in the People's Assembly, then Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Shura Council, which qualified him to occupy the position of Deputy Speaker of the Arab Parliament, and he is currently working as Director of the Library of Alexandria.

Does Egypt transfer water to Israel?

Observers believe that Egypt is subjected to a water blockade from the upstream state of Ethiopia, and its main supporter with equipment, expertise and defensive weapons is Israel, with the aim of putting pressure on Egypt to deliver water to Israel, through the Salam and Serapeum canals, as part of the final solution to the Renaissance Dam crisis.

The former parliamentarian, Ahmed Tantawi, alluded to these fears in a video recording broadcast on the communication sites in 2019, in which he stressed the mismanagement of the Nile file, and demanded that all state institutions assume their roles before it is too late, and address any attempts to transfer water outside Egypt, specifically to the “Zionist entity.” ".

The Egyptian contractor and actor Mohamed Ali, who turned about two years ago into a sharp critic of the regime of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, reinforced these fears through his statements in which he revealed that the Egyptian regime had established secret tunnels under the Suez Canal, which may be used to transport water to a foreign party.

In an interview with "Middle East Eye", Ali confirmed that engineers who worked in the construction of the tunnels told him about this project, which cost billions of dollars, and said that he had doubts that the destination of this water was Israel.

Despite the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi's threat to use force, Egypt and Sudan are facing an intransigent Ethiopian position on the issue of the Renaissance Dam, by starting a second filling of the dam with water, without reaching a tripartite agreement, which Cairo and Khartoum rejected, as a unilateral measure.

Although Egypt transferred the issue to the Security Council, which held, last week, for the second time, a session on the Renaissance Dam dispute, the Council did not issue any decision on the crisis, and returned the issue of the Renaissance Dam to the African Union, calling on the three countries to proceed with the negotiation path, which is a blow to the efforts of Egypt and Sudan, which had hoped to commit Ethiopia to a tripartite agreement on the sharing of the dam's waters.