‘And Israel too. Imagine a third of our income being pumped into an army to fight a miserable two million Jews who were massacred something terrible in the last war. So what if he becomes unpopular? He is strong enough to take unpopular steps. Besides, you know, we Egyptians don’t care one way or another about Israel. No, Didi Nackla,’ I said, ‘it’s stupid living under a police state without the benefits of the control.’
