An Israeli news report claims that the Netanyahu government has offered a raft of proposals to entice Egypt to open its doors to two million displaced Palestinians, despite Cairo's rejection

An Israeli news report claims that the Netanyahu government has offered a raft of proposals to entice Egypt to open its doors to two million displaced Palestinians, despite Cairo’s rejection

  • HuddaBudda@kbin.social
    63·
    1 year ago

    Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly has, meanwhile, sought to reassure investors about the state’s finances. “I affirm that the Egyptian state has not failed and will not fail to pay any of its international obligations,” he said in April.

    Amid a foreign currency crunch, Egypt has drawn down net foreign assets in the banking system by more than $40 billion in two years, partly used to prop up the pound.

    It seems like this deal would be beneficial in some ways, because it sounds like the world bank is kind of writing off parts of this debt already.

    This way it allows for Egypt to build it’s economy towards something different, at the expense of basically having to feed, dress, house, and police, 2 million people who are going to be hellbent on getting back at the people who harmed them.

    On that topic, how does Israel have the power to write off debt?

    House Republicans unveiled a $14.3 billion aid package for Israel on Monday

    Oh… right… we’re helping pay for it… o_o

    • Varan1@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      And all this money is by cutting funding to the IRS, so that the initiative to look into millionaires and billionaires cheating on taxes to the tune of hundreds of billions a year is dead. And also by completely cutting funding to Ukraine so that Putin, the biggest benefactor of the NRA, and thereby a huge benefactor to the GOP has some respite and can achieve some goals in his own effort to erase a people from nationhood. It’s a win-win for in the crooked Republican strategy if it ever passes.