Ethiopia: From Sinai to the Nile – Egypt Cannot Demand Peace From Israel While Threatening War Against Ethiopia

On October 14, 2026, President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi responded to warnings made by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich that Egypt would lose its Sinai Peninsula should it attack Israel. El-Sisi asserted that his country had struggled for its land, that it had no plans to annex any territory and that it wanted only security and stability. El-Sisi’s staternent is based on the sound diplornatic principle that states do not have to threaten the sovereignty and territorial integrity of another…