Except for relatively brief periods before the assassination of President Sadat in 1981 and following the 2011 revolution, states of emergency have been in place since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
Egyptian President el-Sisi: "The current reality confirms President Sadat’s vision."
Biden has persistently spoken of the importance of two states but has not put forward any peace process to achieve that outcome.
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Naval forces performed exercises that included the firing of rockets, parachute jumps and an amphibious landing as Sisi and his guests looked on from the bridge of one of the Mistrals.
This is their fourth round of talks aimed at strengthening security, economic, trade and investment cooperation.
French officials dismiss this and say Paris is following a policy of not openly criticizing countries over human rights so as to be more effective in private on a case by case basis.
The detainees could be used as a bargaining chip if the government comes under pressure from the new US administration, a human-rights official said.
If the military-backed government had succeeded in getting its view of freedom into the brains of all, or even most, Egyptians, then they could simply take freedom as they define it for granted.
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