I just got finished talking with an Egyptian soldier, one of my friends there. If you don't believe me next summer if you're going down to Egypt I'll meet you there and show you around. The problem is not with the Egyptian military, it's the leadership. Many Egyptians acknowledge this, I'm not sure if you remember during the 73 war a commander named Saed AlDeen AlShathlee, he had a better strategy than Sadat and wanted to go further into Israel and Egypt would have succeeded.
*Saad Eldin Alshazly, he was the mastermind behind the war.
His decision was to
oppose Sadat's decision to move armoured forces beyond Egypt's surface to air missile umbrella which had up until that point negated Israels air power and to move deeper into the Sinai (no where near the border btw).
Sadat's decision resulted in the death of 3000 Egyptian men, all because the Syrians where being rolled back by the Israelis, the Syrians wanted Egypt to alleviate the pressure by moving our forces forward resulting in the Israelis refocusing their efforts to the Sinai.
His second beef with Sadat was over moving reserve divisions east of the Canal to the west of it in order to compensate for the losses suffered because of the earlier decision, Sadat feared this would leave our depth vulnerable and refused Shazly's request. This eventually lead to the encirclement of the Third Army.
Since the problem is with the leadership and you have a friend over in Egypt who is a soldier, then why in the hell did you call those who were slain in cold blood after their fajr prayers terrorists and make out that their death was in some way justifiable.
The situation doesn't change with our without the truce, the Egyptian leadership is the problem but the intelligence gets along with Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
The current head of Egypt's Mukhabarat is Gen/Tohami, who is considered to be Field Marshal/Elsisi's mentor in the Egyptian Armed Forces. The intelligence apparatus is part of the 'leadership' and it is the 'leadership' that continually brokers ceasefires and truces. The intelligence services would also be the people who 'pick up' Islamic Jihad or other fighters to be tortured in Egypt according to you.
Whoever broke the truce or ceasefire is irrelevant.
Don't be soft like these people on forums, Egyptian soldiers aren't soft like that this is normal conversations even I and Egyptian soldiers appeared like we were going off on each other but it's all friendly talk.
Don't mistake me being eloquent and gentleman like on an internet forum of all things for softness, I would have no problem fixing my bayonet on an SA80 and thrusting it into an enemy if required. How you get on with military personnel or civillians in the real world is not an issue, however, since we are on an internet forum which is primarily used for debate there is simply no need for us to abuse each other. Abusing someone as a joke is acceptable if said person agrees with it.
You haven't spent much time in the Arabic world I really want to meet you in Egypt so I can show you things go there.
I've certainly spent more time there than you, I've lived in Egypt a couple of years, both in Cairo and in my village and visit every year or two for a couple of months. There is nothing that you can actually show me that hasn't been seen by nth million tourist. If you want to see what the real Egypt is like come meet me and I'll take a you to a Shaaby wedding in one of Cairo's slums or maybe hit up the Cabares on Alharam street or perhaps a local hashish cafe, then maybe hit up Genena mall to scout for some lower middle class birds.....