NEWSMAX / AP: More than half of all Egyptians would like to see the 1979 peace treaty with Israel annulled, according to results of a poll conducted by the U.S.-based Pew Research Center released Monday.
According to the poll results, only 36 percent of Egyptians are in favor of maintaining the treaty, compared with 54 percent who would like to see it scrapped.
Despite the decades of peace and limited trade between the two countries, most Egyptian view the Israelis poorly, largely because of perceptions that they mistreat the Palestinians… (more)
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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!