That headline could have been written any time throughout the last century. Egypt, and all other Arab nations for that matter have never given a flying fuck about the Palestinians.
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Being reported as a "low quality source", while they officially are categorized as "mixed credibility":
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/truth-out/
"Overall, we rate Truthout strongly Left Biased based on story selection and political positions that favor the left. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting due to publishing a false story and promoting anti-GMO propaganda. (5/15/2016) Updated (D. Van Zandt 12/01/2022)"
That distinctly anti-science angle doesn't seem to apply here, so I'll allow it.
Interesting. I’ve never seen their anti-science stiff
Blanket Anti-GMO hysteria is bad of course but there are arguments to be made against things like terminator seeds being used as monopoly tools and pesticide resistant GMOs enabling overuse of them.
Or Monsanto seeds that spread and are billable:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_legal_cases
But that's different from the whole "GMO causes cancer!!!!" nonsense.
The folks who get all up in a bind don't realize that humans have been modifying crops since... well, since we invented crops. :)
Someone posted "maize" to lemmy as an example of what humans have done. Lemmy see if I can find it...
Edit Looks like it was removed for linking to FB, but here's a screenshot:

Having skimmed through the article mediafactcheckbias linked, it's kinda weird. At first glance it seems like it's raising legitimate concern, but it never specifies what.
It sounds like it's making a case that modified Bt toxins could cause unexpected problems in the ecosystem or for other crops on the long run by targeting more insect species than what it's designed to, a seemingly valid concern, but never actually reaches any conclusion, instead it uses handwaves like "unexpected toxicological properties " and "protecting public health and the environment" which make it look like they want you to think GMO are poisonous to people without actually saying it.
I've mentioned this before, but there's actually a pop conspiracy theory that the intel Israel used during the 6 day war was actually given by Egypt's own generals which is why they also allegedly refused to allow C&C to alert their airfields of the huge first wave attack that Jordan had detected for them.
Supposedly they had already formed an agreement to allow Israel to do their thing so they could sack Nasser. The plan technically backfired since Nasser was popular with support so he had them arrested.
Didn't really help Egypt either way in the end because both sides were still just ill experienced military people with no real combat experience. Today the military still runs the country in the form of Sisi who is considered a joke by practically every foreign dignitary.
I guess they care about Palestine as much as the Pakistani army cares about Kashmir.
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