{"id":403103,"date":"2019-04-14T19:44:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T18:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/what-ivanka-told-us-about-trumps-meeting-with-el-sisi\/"},"modified":"2019-04-14T19:44:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T18:44:58","slug":"what-ivanka-told-us-about-trumps-meeting-with-el-sisi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/what-ivanka-told-us-about-trumps-meeting-with-el-sisi\/","title":{"rendered":"What Ivanka Told Us About Trump\u2019s Meeting With el-Sisi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_110863\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110863\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110863\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/04\/EB887B7D-A7C0-4E8A-A81D-EA6764FEBC42.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/04\/EB887B7D-A7C0-4E8A-A81D-EA6764FEBC42.png 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/04\/EB887B7D-A7C0-4E8A-A81D-EA6764FEBC42-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/04\/EB887B7D-A7C0-4E8A-A81D-EA6764FEBC42-768x562.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-110863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/ivanka-trump\">Ivanka Trump<\/a>, daughter of the US president and wife of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/MiddleEast\">Middle East<\/a>\u00a0\u201cexpert\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/jared-kushner\">Jared Kushner<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 he who has supposedly produced a Middle East \u201cpeace plan\u201d\u00a0to be revealed after Benjamin\u00a0Netanyahu wins the Israeli elections \u2013 has just given her support to a regime which has locked up women political prisoners, \u201cdisappeared\u201d\u00a0others, and whose army forcibly carried out virginity tests on female protesters during the Tahrir Square revolution. Well, what more do you expect from the Trump menagerie?<\/p>\n<p>Her tweeted praise, encouragement and support went to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/Egypt\">Egypt<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 and especially to its president\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/abdel-fattah-el-sisi-0\">Abdel Fattah el-Sisi<\/a>, who gained a presidential victory last year with the support of 97.08 per cent\u00a0of the Egyptian electorate. Ivanka obviously drew the necessary conclusions: this was a free and fair election and showed only how much President Sisi\u2019s people loved him after his military coup against Egypt\u2019s first democratically elected president in 2013. By extraordinary chance, the very same Sisi (just four days after Ivanka\u2019s tweet) is in Washington today \u2013 yes, today:\u00a0Tuesday \u2013 to meet with her father,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/DonaldTrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And why should she not have tweeted forth, when she had read Sisi\u2019s speech on Women\u2019s Day, in which the Egyptian president promised to protect Egyptian women from physical violence, help them achieve \u201cgreater participation\u201d in the labour market and \u201ctechnological empowerment\u201d. He ended with the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/04\/12\/what-ivanka-told-us-about-trumps-meeting-with-el-sisi\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair Ivanka Trump, daughter of the US president and wife of\u00a0Middle East\u00a0\u201cexpert\u201d\u00a0Jared Kushner\u00a0\u2013 he who has supposedly produced a Middle East \u201cpeace plan\u201d\u00a0to be revealed after Benjamin\u00a0Netanyahu wins the Israeli elections \u2013 has just given her support to a regime which has locked up women political prisoners, \u201cdisappeared\u201d\u00a0others, and whose army [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-403103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}