22 July 2016: Egypt wants to play a meaningful role in Middle East peaceful process
History of Midlle East peace talks beetwen Israel and Palestina is full of difficult decisions, misunderstandings and empty promises. There is a poor hope that current prolonged impasse will be overcome in the near future. Unstable situation provokes neighboring countries to take some actions. One of them is president of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. He has just announced that his country would start pushing forward peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
His major goal is to break the deadlock and launch a new chapter for countries’ relations within Middle East. That declaration was expressed n a speech broadcast live on state TV. El-Sisi’s presentation is related to earlier visit Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry to Israel which was the first official meeting this rank in 9 years.
Always tense relations beetwen Egypt and Israel appears to slowly improve. It can be seen in recent behaviour of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who met Shoukry during his visit, welcomed Sisi's offer. Nevertheless Egypt want to be considered as an objective actor in a whole procedure. This is why Shoukry also met Palestinian leaders in the West Bank city of Ramallah. According to authorities in Egypt series of small steps could lead to warmer ties between both countries.
The last try of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks collapsed in April 2014. Mutual aversion has been strengthened by Israeli settlements in Gaza.
