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The Egyptian berm
From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's on-record words
Based on 1 recorded interview · Last updated
The earthwork Egypt built along its Gaza frontier more than a year before July 2025, which John Kiriakou describes as a defence not against Palestinians but against Israel, built because Cairo feared the border being thrown open from the other side, and because Egyptian troops would not fire on two million people.
The Egyptian berm is the earth barrier Egypt constructed along its frontier with the Gaza Strip, which John Kiriakou cites as evidence that Cairo anticipated an Israeli attempt to force the Palestinian population of Gaza into Sinai.
The pressure and the refusal
As the famine deepened in July 2025, Egypt came under what Kiriakou called “real pressure today to open the border”. Its answer was categorical: “They have said that they’re not opening the border under any circumstances.” The reason he gives is not indifference but complicity, “if they open the border, they will be complicit with the ethnic cleansing.”[1]
He states the resulting dilemma without resolving it: “Do you just let people starve, or do you jump in on the side of the Israelis in cleansing Gaza?”[2]
What the berm is for
Kiriakou’s reading of the barrier reverses the obvious assumption about which direction it faces. “The Egyptians aren’t stupid. That’s why they built that berm over a year ago,” he says, because “they’re worried that the Israelis will throw open the border and then, you know, they won’t be able to resist.”[2]
The constraint he identifies is on the Egyptian army rather than on Egyptian policy. Confronted with a mass movement of civilians pushed toward the crossing, Egyptian troops “aren’t going to want to and will not shoot two million people”, so the barrier does the work the soldiers would not do.[2]
Sourced from John Kiriakou's on-record public statements. See his profile for the full body of his interviews, podcast appearances, and short-form video.
