The very simple, obvious, and wholly correctable reason for the Egyptian poll results favoring the annulment of the 30 year old peace treaty with Israel is that most Egyptians, as the article states, “view the Israelis poorly, largely because of perceptions that they mistreat the Palestinians”.
This should hardly be news to anyone and is more than a “perception”. Most countries in the world (160 plus) agree with them.
The “perception” is likely to have significant fallout for Israel if a peace accord with the Palestinians is not achieved, and in my view, it will not be achieved in the current climate.
Israel wants peace . . . but it also wants the land, i.e. the West Bank settlements ( and its roads, outposts, and other encroachments via the wall), the Jordan Valley, Golan Heights, all of Jerusalem etc. It not only wants these Palestinian lands but now claims that it actually belongs to them (the bible tells them so, God gave it to them, they “won” it by war, they actually lived there 2000 years ago etc. etc.).
Israel seems to have accepted the age old principle that the price for land is, and will be, blood. And, as long as the majority of the blood spilled is Palestinian, the price is tolerable.
As one the most heavily armed nations in the world, Israel is confident in its ability to destroy any group or nation or group of nations who would challenge it. Its intelligence agency is world class facilitating, targeted assignations, arrests, infiltration, securing and paying collaborators at all levels, funding propaganda, etc. The illusion is invincibility. Their accepted fear is ultimate annihilation. The “mind set” is suicidal (Masada), with the significant difference being that the entire world (guilty of the holocaust) will be brought down with them (a blackmail to give Israel everything it wants)
Stanley Fish and Alan Dershowitz are prominent professors who believe that most all anti-Israeli policy ideas are born of an incipient, or actual, or flaming, anti-Semitism. In this context, and to be consistent in the face of Jewish opposition to Israeli policies, there is the category of “self hating Jews” This is all nonsense and intimidation. It is not being anti-Catholic to condemn that Church’s guilt in cases of protecting child abusers, and it is not being anti-Jewish to condemn Israel’s much more dangerous and corrupt policies in the West Bank, Jerusalem, Gaza, Lebanon, Golan, and the confiscated Jordan Valley.
Israeli policies are killing both them and us (USA). No matter how guilty we all were for the holocaust we do not want another one for Israel, the Middle East, the US, or the entire world . . .. . So, for God’s sake FIX IT!
It just amaze most people how a body of people who had been through a difficult time in their lives during the holocaust could be doing the same treatment to innocent people, rather than having learned from the past. I can only liken those Palestinians trapped in their tiny land year in and year out without enough food sustenance, medicines, (what about air to breathe in, a real house to live in other than tents) to subdued animals in little cages, and the more these animals were caged in, the more they try to get out of the cages that they are imprisoned in.
I believe that America should rethink giving support to any country that misuse its’ power. It does not make the country look good!