Illustrative image. (Egyptian Ministry of Defense)
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on October 17 called for an emergency parliamentary session to authorize a possible Egyptian intervention to defend Saudi Arabia if requested by the kingdom.
“I call on parliament to convene an emergency session to authorize us to take action to intervene in defense of Saudi Arabia, if we are asked to do so,” El-Sisi said at a graduation ceremony for military academy and college cadets.
“This move and this defense require approval from the Egyptian parliament,” he noted, stressing that Egypt was not seeking to join the war against Yemen’s Houthis.
“I am not speaking about attacking or waging war. We are seeking only to defend,” the Egyptian president added.
Egypt is the latest country to publicly signal support for Saudi Arabia as the kingdom faces escalating missile and drone attacks by the Houthis, who control much of Yemen.
El-Sisi said Cairo would take the necessary measures to protect Saudi Arabia, adding that it was “absolutely unacceptable” for the kingdom’s security and stability to be undermined.
Saudi Arabia has secured defensive military support from Pakistan and Turkey through the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, which the three countries agreed to activate on October 5. More recently, the kingdom also received defensive support from the United Kingdom and France.
The United States, for its part, has been providing more substantial military support to Saudi Arabia, including intelligence sharing, operational planning and assistance identifying Houthi targets, as well as weapons and air defense systems.
Still, Riyadh has so far failed to secure a publicly announced commitment from its allies to directly join its offensive against the Houthis inside Yemen.
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zionist’ servants are flocking together. do egyptian people have no shame? so far, evidence suggest that egyptians indeed, like jordanians and saudis are useless cowards and morons.
the gippos haven’t lifted a finger against the gaza genocide right on their doorstep. sisi is a bought and paid for quisling zionist whore. if he interferes against yemen he will get an almighty slapping down. in 1967 israhell attacked egypt. they did it because a large part of the egyptian army was away fighting in yemen at the time. they lost thousands of troops there.
correction;
egyptian judas puppet abdel fattah el-sisi
getting tired of hearing countries say they help “defensively”, implying that they are not taking part in a war. when a country is attacking another, and you help protect it from repercussions of that aggression, you are enabling it and allowing it to continue the war. there is no difference in the end result, it’s just a cowardly way to deflect responsibility
one key item sisi and the globalists should consider before any military action. do they want to ensure the destruction of the suez canal ? and for how many decades ? what is that cost ?
sisi again with his zio irrelevance.
looks like some large container ships ( as in plural ) will be settling on the suez canal bed soon, for an indefinite period. 💩