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ISPI — MED This Week · 2021-09-23
This ISPI MED This Week roundup looks at the 13 September 2021 meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh between Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the first such meeting in over a decade, as part of Israel’s widening normalisation and its partnerships with Greece and Cyprus, with contributions from Alessia Melcangi, Bahgat Korany, Roie Yellinek, Kristin Smith Diwan, Gabriel Mitchell, Ioannis Grigoriadis and Omar Shaban. In his section, “Palestine: a win-win for both al-Sisi and Bennett”, Shaban argues that the meeting, which followed Egypt’s brokering of an end to the May escalation in Gaza, let al-Sisi reclaim Cairo’s leading role while giving Bennett something Netanyahu had not achieved. Pointing to Egypt’s continued mediation on Gaza’s reconstruction, Israeli concessions on the blockade and a reported prisoner exchange, he concludes that the meeting “proved the new Bennett-led Israeli government is much stronger than previously perceived”.
This ISPI MED This Week roundup looks at the 13 September 2021 meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh between Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the first such meeting in over a decade, as part of Israel’s widening normalisation and its partnerships with Greece…