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Will Trump bring Egypt, Israel closer?

Observers wait to see what role, if any, the Trump administration might play in a rapprochement between Israel and Egypt.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry in Jerusalem July 10, 2016 REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun - RTSH5M1
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The possibility of normalization between Egypt and Israel resurfaces whenever any form of cooperation between both countries appears. One such example would be when the Israeli Embassy in Cairo recently posted on Facebook about its gratitude for the Egyptian government's help in extinguishing wildfires in November.

The United States once was considered the playmaker of Israeli-Egyptian normalization. But relations between Washington and Cairo chilled after the Egyptian army ousted then-President Mohammed Morsi, who is affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, in July 2013. Though there had been mass demonstrations against Morsi, Washington was quick to point out that he was Egypt's first democratically elected president.

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