Egypt seeks to maintain good relations with US, Israel: Analyst
Cairo says it agreed to delay a UN Security Council resolution it has drafted against illegal Israeli settlements after US President-elect Donald Trump called the Egyptian leader to make Washington’s opposition clear.
On Thursday, the Security Council was to vote on the Cairo-proposed resolution, which would call on the regime in Israel to stop its settlement construction on occupied Palestinian land.
However, Cairo abruptly requested for the voting session to be postponed after Tel Aviv went on a last-ditch lobbying campaign against the resolution.
A former US government advisor believes Egypt always wants to be on good terms with the United States and Israel, and that it is not too surprising to see Cairo buckle under pressure in the case of the anti-settlement resolution.
The administration of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi "is always bent over backwards to maintain good relations with Israel and to comply with especially their more, I shall say, urgent wishes and things like this and also with the United States,” Paul Larudee told Press TV in an interview on Friday.
He also stated Trump’s call indicates that he is going to go along with Israel’s wishes in a much stronger way than any previous president and that he will back the Tel Aviv regime in probably its worst intentions.
He went on to say the fact that Trump is ally of more extreme elements in Israel will make the situation “very dangerous” for Palestinians.
Larudee further noted that Israel does not even like peace because war and ethnic cleansing is much more “profitable” for the regime.
According to the analyst, there is a very distinct possibility that Israel will escalate its violent acts against Palestinians.
The US, Tel Aviv’s oldest and strongest ally, has unswervingly backed the regime at the UN since its creation in 1948 in the face of all international momentum against its acts of aggression against Palestinians.
This includes its refusal to stand in the way of Israel’s unbridled settlement expansion, which has invariably shattered all previous diplomatic pushes towards the resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
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