{"id":193685,"date":"2025-03-16T15:28:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T13:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-on-edge-finding-a-delicate-balance-between-gaza-and-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T15:28:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T13:28:30","slug":"egypt-on-edge-finding-a-delicate-balance-between-gaza-and-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-on-edge-finding-a-delicate-balance-between-gaza-and-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt On Edge &#8211; Finding a Delicate Balance Between Gaza and Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"108\">US president Donald Trump famously called Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi his &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-19256730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">favourite dictator<\/a>&#8221; in 2019, but their relationship has been complex. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/administration\/donald-j-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump&#8217;s return<\/a> to the White House for a second term has sent ripples of concern through Cairo. In January 2025, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c07kpjyzgllo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposed a resolution<\/a> to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza: forcibly relocating Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan. Trump simultaneously threatened to withdraw US aid if these countries didn&#8217;t comply with the proposal. Sisi&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503100007.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president Donald Trump famously called Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi his &#8220;favourite dictator&#8221; in 2019, but their relationship has been complex. Trump&#8217;s return to the White House for a second term has sent ripples of concern through Cairo. In January 2025, Trump proposed a resolution to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza: forcibly relocating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":193686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00551345:4c216a42dc91644e7c08336497a6f47a:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,9848,31331,7126,4697,415,17312,2671,257,254,6264],"class_list":["post-193685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-balance","tag-delicate","tag-edge","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-finding","tag-gaza","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00551345:4c216a42dc91644e7c08336497a6f47a:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}