…What the West has been doing for 20 years now is forking over billions to these grafters in exchange for relative peace with Israel.

This has been the American posture toward Egypt since the 1979 peace treaty. All that foreign aid to Egypt went to the army, the second government there, in exchange for which the army maintained the peace with Israel. Foreign aid as extortion, rather, extortion as foreign aid, which was the tribute Western countries used to pay the Barbary cities not to hijack their merchant marine and enslave their passengers and crews.

Dealing with these Arabs is like living in a state of permanent blackmail…