Abdel al-Said on Israel: My approach is simple: treat the Israeli government like any other government that carries out the same actions. My family is from Egypt and I want to do the same for Egypt. Egypt violates human rights laws. Egypt should not receive $3.3 billion from our tax money. And I would hate if someone said, "well, because you belong to the same ethnic group as 95% of Egypt’s population, in order for us to say the Egyptian government does terrible things it must be anti‑Egyptian." No, it is simply the application of our principles worldwide.

Abdel al-Said on Israel: My approach is simple: treat the Israeli government like any other government that carries out the same actions. My family is from Egypt and I want to do the same for Egypt. Egypt violates human rights laws. Egypt should not receive $3.3 billion from our tax money. And I would hate if someone said, "well, because you belong to the same ethnic group as 95% of Egypt’s population, in order for us to say the Egyptian government does terrible things it must be anti‑Egyptian." No, it is simply the application of our principles worldwide.