Once snubbed by Biden, Egypt s Sissi uses Gaza cease-fire role to prove his relevance Sudarsan Raghavan © Christophe Ena/AP French President Emmanuel Macron, right, welcomes Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi on May 17, 2021 at the Grand Palais Ephemere in Paris. His cozy ties with President Donald Trump were ending. The incoming president, Joe Biden, had vowed that there would be “no more blank checks” for Trump’s “favorite dictator,” warning Sissi to improve his abysmal human rights record. In the first four months of his presidency, Biden didn’t even phone Sissi an unprecedented snub of a key Middle East ally.
Once snubbed by Biden, Egypt s Sissi uses Gaza cease-fire role to prove his relevance
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Both Israel and Hamas claim victory amid fragile cease-fire
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Turkey’s efforts to mend ties with Israel have been derailed by the ferocious crackdown by Israeli forces on Palestinians inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, with Turkish leaders relapsing into well-worn verbal salvoes against the Jewish state amid heightened religious sensitivities during Ramadan.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan took to Twitter over the weekend to air his fury in Turkish, Arabic and Hebrew. He called Israel a “cruel terrorist state” and said Muslim nations needed to take effective steps to stop the violence. Those who remained silent were “a party to the cruelty there.”
Erdogan spoke with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh to convey his support, while his foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, vowed that Turkey would continue to be the voice “of our Palestinian brothers and sisters and defend their rights.” Erdogan’s communications director, Fahrettin Altun, chimed in with tweets of his own,