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March 8, 2016

So What if an Egyptian Parliamentarian Lost His Job for Meeting with the Israeli Ambassador?

On balance, the country is Israel’s ally.

In January, when a new Egyptian ambassador arrived in Israel after a three-year hiatus, observers hailed the event as a sign of warming relations between the two countries, which have been cooperating to contain Hamas and fight Islamic State infiltration in the Sinai Peninsula. Yet in Egypt itself, a parliamentarian who recently met with Israel’s ambassador faced widespread condemnation in state-owned media and was then expelled by his colleagues. Eyal Zisser attempts to make sense of these mixed messages:

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