Too bad EDX 2018 is only 2 days. Probably good since it's the first military exhibition held in Egypt since.....ever? And what a shame that is. It really pisses me off that our military took this long to get onto the world stage as far as these shows and exhibitions etc. If you think of Egypt's location in the ME & MENA area, we are center stage. Stand in Cairo and look north and the potential. Look east and see the potential. West and South just as much and it took until 2018 to get in on this action? I guess better late than never.
You'll have to take our word for it
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That wouldn't even fly with the best of friends.
I'm sure if this was the other way around you wouldn't care one tiny bit.
Terrible presumption on your part. Quite the contrary since diplomacy is our strongest suit, and we practice it and exhaust it before anything else and that's exactly what we've been doing with Ethiopia regarding this very serous matter.
Sorry but the Nile doesn't just belong to you,
When did we ever claim such a thing?
80% of the waters come from us,
So that means screw all upstream countries?
we are not going to abide by some outdated treaty that didn't even concern us.
Neither of those treaties were mentioned once in all 18 meetings that took place. Did you know that? Only the newscasters are bringing that up as they report the issue.
The way Egypt uses the Nile too is not exactly very helpful.
Says who? Who the heck has ever actually studied or came up with any legitimate information that indicates Egypt uses the Nile in an "unhelpful" way. All the reports of "wasting" water is made up because that is virtually IMPOSSIBLE to do. First, you simply cannot over-irrigate any crops of any kind anywhere in the world. All other usage of the water is the average use that any other country does with it's water and in many agricultural areas that are being developed further and further from the banks of the Nile where canals are not reaching are using wells to acquire water. So that whole, false notion that Egyptians waste the water is just another concocted story to make us appear to be spoiled and abusive and non-deserving etc. Couldn't be further from the truth as I just explained.
You could empty the Aswan high dam while the GERD is filling and not deal with water shortages, no evaporation in your lake and restore farming land.
Why should we go through all of that? Who's disturbing the flow, us or you? Do you realize how large of an operation that is? Will Ethiopia volunteer to pay for that huge endeavor?
Compensate lost electricity with solar or wind energy.
Again, besides the fact that solar projects are being created in Egypt up in an eye-popping manner, that's besides the point. We shouldn't have to make such drastic adjustments just because you're going to significantly alter the flow of such a precious, natural resource.
As a Sudanese user on a different forum said in response to Egyptian rice farmers moaning about the ban, 'who farms rice in a desert, they need to behave like the desert nation they are'
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That's about as bigoted of a statement as one can possibly make. That Sudanese guy -- who BTW, is from a much larger desert nation than Egypt -- should take his own advice. What a racist comment.
You are ignoring all the benefits of it, harming Egypt is the last thing on our mind.
If that was the case, why are you refusing to share the French study? What is in it that you don't want us to see? If there won't be any harm to Egypt like you say, why hide that? Why not agree to an international arbitration that we specifically said would agree to whatever result they come up with. So we've made it official that we would keep our word yet you've done nothing of the sort. I'm sorry, Wedi, but this is not an even playing field that Ethiopia is playing in and that's a dangerous game because of the possible effects on our country and people. That's not something that anyone would take lightly.
Think of it this way; if this was Israel, this would be taken as an existential threat and that dam would've been reduced to rubble 4 years ago. Instead of behaving like that, we've met with you 18 times to try and solve this and we're willing to solve it because we don't claim the Nile is all ours and we want to see Ethiopia benefit from the same thing we have for almost 60 years. But you folks are not receptive enough and that's on you, not us.
@Taygibay , first time we've seen ECM manpacks with Egyptian EOD teams. On-foot mobile jamming while diffusing IEDs.
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... but most of the Nile's water in Egypt is from Ethiopian land.
