General Manager of Al Arabiya television Abdulrahman Al Rashed doesn’t have many kind words to say about Egypt’s stance on Syria in his latest op-ed for Asharq Al Awsat, of which he is the former editor-in-chief. “Not many people are interested in the official statements made by the Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry that some portrayed as being biased towards Bashar Al Assad’s regime,” he writes. “What is the impact of the statements? At a time when the Syrian sky is congested with dozens of Russian and US fighter jets, and there are thousands of troops and Iranian mercenaries on its soil, these statements add nothing at all.”