Egypt and Saudi Arabia... “The sword is more truthful than books.”

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The saying that security is interconnected and affects each other is a real statement, and not just a metaphorical constructive statement.

This includes the security interconnection between Egypt and the Gulf states, especially Saudi Arabia, which faces Egypt on the shores of the Red Sea, and embraces it “almost on land” through the Sinai Peninsula, and whoever stands on the banks of NEOM sees the lights of Sharm El-Sheikh at night.

Saudi-Egyptian cooperation is also ancient, and in the Suez War (the tripartite aggression) in 1956, Saudi Arabia supported Egypt during the days of King Saud, and some princes at that time, including King Salman, even participated in volunteer campaigns to defend Egypt.

During the days of King Faisal, the October War, and the Transit War, the story is famous, and what Faisal and Saudi Arabia did for Egypt’s benefit, especially in the issue of oil export.

As for the era of King Abdullah and the “Arab Spring,” everyone knows what happened from Riyadh to Cairo in those difficult days, in 2011 and what followed, in what was known as the “Arab Spring,” as they claimed. We do not forget that Egypt, during the days of the late President Hosni Mubarak, stood with Kuwait to protect Gulf security during Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Today we have an Egyptian president who has a high historical sense of responsibility, namely President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, who saved his country from chaos and crossed it, the second crossing, towards safety and development.

Yesterday, Saturday, during the graduation ceremony of a new class from the Military Academy in the New Capital, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi called on the Egyptian Parliament to hold an emergency session to authorize it to take any measures that Saudi Arabia may request, stressing that Egypt “will implement any measure to defend the brothers in the Gulf.”

In his speech, the Egyptian President affirmed that “Cairo will implement any measure to protect and defend its brothers, in accordance with the directives of Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz and the Kingdom’s Crown Prince, Prince Mohammed bin Salman.”

President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi alerted Egyptians in particular to “the need not to forget the support that the Gulf countries have provided to Egypt since 2013, thanking the Gulf countries for the support.” Indeed, the Egyptian Parliament decided to hold a plenary session today, Sunday, “in light of the president’s request.”

The security of the Red Sea, the security of Saudi Arabia, and the security of Egypt are part of the security of Yemen, its security, and the protection of its state and its people from the project of the extremist fundamentalist Houthi group, which has shown the world the danger of its weapons, and the inflammatory political and intellectual myths it is. This is the time for determination and determination, and:

The sword is more truthful than books

There is a fine line between seriousness and play

Quoted from "Al-Sharq Al-Awsat"