Washington think tank recommends tackling culture of “entitlement” in Egypt by cutting $300 million in military aid
Widely regarded for decades as one of the Middle East’s most strategic countries due to its control over the Suez Canal, access to the Nile River and proximity to Israel, the most populous Arab country has since seen its influence “In power since 2013, Sisi overthrew and later jailed the country’s first democratically elected leader, President Mohamed Morsi, in a bloody military coup which saw hundreds killed.citing national security reasons.
Since taking power, Sisi has systematically sought to eliminate any form of opposition leading the authors to conclude that the Egyptian president “has built the most repressive Egyptian state in modern history”. An almost continuous flow of aid from Washington to Cairo has created a culture of “entitlement” amongst the higher echelons of the Egyptian political and military establishment.
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