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6/18/2025, 8:00:55 AM
>>63854502
>return of the Sinai Peninsula is successfully negotiated
That negotiation was "you can have the Sinai back if you open the Strait of Tiraz up to Israeli shipping" which considering that Egypt closing the Strait of Tiraz was what sparked the Six Day War which cost them the Sinai in the first place isn't much of a victory. It's more like your parents giving you your toy back after you say you're sorry and won't do it again.
Basically Egypt started three wars (the Six Day War, the undeclared Attrition War, and the Yom Kippur War), lost tens of thousands of men, kneecapped their own economy for eight years straight, and had to cede Gaza to Israel in exchange for... nothing. Nothing at all. Sadat was killed by his own men, and Egypt went from being a regional power and one of the rising stars of the early Cold War era to a total nothing-burger, and the Arab world still considers that their big "win" against Israel.
>return of the Sinai Peninsula is successfully negotiated
That negotiation was "you can have the Sinai back if you open the Strait of Tiraz up to Israeli shipping" which considering that Egypt closing the Strait of Tiraz was what sparked the Six Day War which cost them the Sinai in the first place isn't much of a victory. It's more like your parents giving you your toy back after you say you're sorry and won't do it again.
Basically Egypt started three wars (the Six Day War, the undeclared Attrition War, and the Yom Kippur War), lost tens of thousands of men, kneecapped their own economy for eight years straight, and had to cede Gaza to Israel in exchange for... nothing. Nothing at all. Sadat was killed by his own men, and Egypt went from being a regional power and one of the rising stars of the early Cold War era to a total nothing-burger, and the Arab world still considers that their big "win" against Israel.
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