Last Wednesday, president Al Sissi has met Jewish leaders during a meeting with informal advisers to US President Donald Trump and representatives of an array of Jewish groups. Al-Sissi expressed guarded optimism about peace process between Arabs and Israel. Sissi praised Trump, with whom he met earlier in the week, for seeking to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, but cautioned against rushing the talks. Sissi at the meeting also called for a bid to roll back Iranian influence in the region but cautioned against elevating tensions with the Islamic Republic to a military conflict, saying that would be disastrous.
