Is President Trump going to use the “Columbia exercise” on Egypt?
It seems that the crisis in relations between the US and Egypt is deteriorating against the backdrop of President Trump’s demand that Egypt absorb millions of Gaza residents within its borders, thereby allowing the area to be cleared for reconstruction within the framework of projects conceived by the American president.
As a reminder, after Trump “asked” Egypt and Jordan to help absorb the Gaza residents we “voluntarily” shared after the devastating war with Israel, following which more than 70 percent of the homes in the Strip were destroyed, Jordan stuttered and finally agreed to absorb 2,000 children from Gaza and rehabilitate them within its borders, while the Egyptian president expressed his complete opposition to the plan and to signal to the American president his dissatisfaction He canceled his upcoming visit to Washington because of the request.
President Trump immediately responded to the cancellation of the visit and said things that are impossible not to understand: We give Egypt many billions of dollars and it is impossible for them not to help us.