The 33 year old "peace" between Egypt and Israel since the treaty was signed in 1979 is not what it seems and here are the nugget sized facts to tell you why:
1) Under the controversial 2005 deal, Egypt exports 43 percent of gas supplies to Israel, which depends on the Egyptian gas to generate 40 percent of its electricity (below market price if I may emphasize).
2) Mubarak refused to open Rafah border causing Gazans to live under Siege.
3) The most significant impact of U.S. aid to the Mubarak regime was that it bent Egyptian policy in the direction of supporting Israeli goals. With Mubarak’s border cooperation, for example, Israel could continue its blockade of Gaza Palestinians and Hamas.
4) The Egyptian government even began building a deep barrier at the Egypt-Gaza crossing to block the tunnels through which Egyptian and Palestinian merchants evaded the Israeli blockade.
5) Such cooperation has been lauded by Israeli officials as necessary for the moribund “peace process” with the Palestinian Authority. But in reality, this relationship with an Egyptian dictator may simply have given successive Israeli governments the freedom to continue building settlements on what is left of Palestinian land in the West Bank.
So there you go, a non-exhaustive list of the relationship between Egypt and Israel. Terra.
1) Under the controversial 2005 deal, Egypt exports 43 percent of gas supplies to Israel, which depends on the Egyptian gas to generate 40 percent of its electricity (below market price if I may emphasize).
2) Mubarak refused to open Rafah border causing Gazans to live under Siege.
3) The most significant impact of U.S. aid to the Mubarak regime was that it bent Egyptian policy in the direction of supporting Israeli goals. With Mubarak’s border cooperation, for example, Israel could continue its blockade of Gaza Palestinians and Hamas.
4) The Egyptian government even began building a deep barrier at the Egypt-Gaza crossing to block the tunnels through which Egyptian and Palestinian merchants evaded the Israeli blockade.
5) Such cooperation has been lauded by Israeli officials as necessary for the moribund “peace process” with the Palestinian Authority. But in reality, this relationship with an Egyptian dictator may simply have given successive Israeli governments the freedom to continue building settlements on what is left of Palestinian land in the West Bank.
So there you go, a non-exhaustive list of the relationship between Egypt and Israel. Terra.
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