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Egypt's new bond scheme aims to ease the debt burden on the Egyptian state. Instead, it will deepen corruption, allowing regime insiders and elites to rob the state at the expense of the Egyptian working class, writes @MagedMandour.
The Egyptian state thrives on repression and insider deals that empower the regime. Its new "Taxation Sukuk" is merely an extension of that dynamic, opting for short-term solutions at the expense of working Egyptians, writes @MagedMandour.
"Any claim of ending the war obscures the fact that Gaza has been systematically converted into a vast, enclosed prison for its surviving inhabitants and the dead alike," writes @GhadaRozzi.
For Palestinians struggling to survive in the Gaza Strip, claims of "progress" or an end to the war and Israel's genocide ring hollow, writes @GhadaRozzi. For them, little has changed as Israel continues to target their communities.
Israel's genocide in the Gaza Strip never ended, argues @GhadaRozzi. Instead, "it has continued in a different form," meant to pacify Western criticism.
"Meanwhile, we remain in this ghastly existence of a life," she concludes.