It was not long ago when Sisi carried out a coup d'état in Egypt and took to the throne. He carried out certain actions that didn't help his image, such as the closure of tunnels that served as a lifeline for the Palestinians in Gaza with recently around 521 tunnels having been discovered and closed. He ordered the demolishment of all facilities and housing within the buffer zone (500m or 0.3 miles, west of the Gaza Strip) and vowed that he would compensate those who have lost their homes and businesses - yet he has not delivered his promise and left thousands homeless not unlike 'Israel' (Occupied Palestine) who extend their settlement boundaries and do the same.
The recent death sentence to many handed down en-masse as well as to ousted Muslim Brotherhood leader, Morsi, means that not only does it make it difficult to engage with Sisi locally but also internationally he is having issues with making friends. President of Germany, Norbert Lammert, has expressed no interest in meeting the Egyptian leader stating that his human rights record nor the democratic evolution of Egypt shows any progress.
It begs the question to why Sisi was put in there in the first place. US's hollow rhetoric regarding his coup expressed implicit blessings and why not? He has managed to achieve those things that other Presidents failed to deliver for the U.S. in such a short space of time. It seems as if he is the man of action for the West and not to mention the cooperation in the war on Muslims in Libya, his public abhorrence of the Islamic texts (Including the Quran) which he thinks have been wrongly sacralized by the masses etc.
Sources:
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/europe/18792-president-of-german-parliament-explains-refusal-to-meet-al-sisi
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