Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is cracking down on protestors showing solidarity with Palestine at a time when he is courting the international community for multi-billion funds and attempting to position himself as a peace broker in the Gaza-Israel crisis. The arrests expose a contradiction between Sisi’s domestic messaging of support for Gaza versus his objectives on the international stage of keeping Israel as an ally to maintain control of the border and play mediator. They also illustrate that, even after a decade of unrivalled power, his regime is too fragile to allow any meaning…