Egypt threatens to suspend Camp David accords

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Egypt threatens to suspend Camp David accords
https://www.voltairenet.org/article220419.html

The Egyptian government informed its Israeli counterpart that if the IDF carry out an operation in Rafah as announced, entailing the disruption of humanitarian aid delivery into the Gaza Strip, it would suspend the Camp David Accords.

Signed in 1978 and 1979 by former Muslim Brotherhood member Anwar el-Sadat and revisionist Zionist Menahem Beguin, the Camp David Accords, which comprise two separate agreements, were never fully implemented. However, the second agreement ended the war between the two states. Their suspension could mean a new war.

Saudi Arabia and Qatar have also warned Israel of the consequences such an operation would have.

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Fron the Aangirfan website that sometimes has good info and sometimes not.  Let's hope this is good info.

Gaza, Palestine, Egypt
https://aanirfan.blogspot.com/2024/02/gaza-palestine-egypt.html

Gaza, Palestine, Egypt

Anonymous -

'Egypt reinforces army on border with Gaza as Israel continues indiscriminate attacks ... convoy of Egyptian army trucks and tanks heading from North Sinai's capital city, El-Arish, towards Rafah.'

https://www.newarab.com/news/egypt-reinforces-army-border-gaza

Some Twitter X accounts confirming this military build-up, also say Egypt has given Israel a message -

That if Israel attempts the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians into Sinai .. then Egypt will consider the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty as abrogated, and Egyptian troops will be ready to exchange fire with Israel

And this even tho Egypt's President Al-Sisi had a Moroccan Jewish mother -
http://aanirfan.blogspot.com/2023/10/egypts-president-al-sisi.html

There are limits to how even an autocrat can hold back his people

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Egypt Threatens Netanyahu with End of Camp David Peace Accords if he Invades Rafah
https://www.juancole.com/2024/02/threatens-netanyahu-accords.html

It is being widely reported based on press leaks that the Egyptian government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has privately threatened Israel. Cairo is said to have warned that the 1978 Camp David Peace Treaty will be suspended "with immediate effect" if the government of Binyamin Netanyahu tries to take over the Philadelphi Corridor at the Gaza-Egypt Border and if it expels the Palestinians of Gaza into Egypt's Sinai Peninsula at the Rafah border crossing as a result of an invasion of Rafah City. Israel attempted to convince an Egyptian delegation to Tel Aviv on Friday that Cairo should cooperate with the Israeli war plan, but allegedly was rebuffed.

The peace treaty has been the cornerstone of Egyptian-Israeli relations for nearly half a century.

The Egyptian government had not said much in public about these reports until yesterday. Mahmud `Abd al-Raziq of al-Khalij 35 reports reports that on Sunday, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry issued a stern warning to Israel that any operation in Rafah City would have "severe consequences." The communique said that Egypt "continues its contacts and actions with various parties in order to arrive at an immediate ceasefire, enforce calm, and achieve an exchange of hostages and prisoners." That is, Egypt is seeking another Israel-Hamas agreement, along with the US and Qatar.

Africanews Video: "Israel's assault on Rafah endangers peace accords with Egypt, officials warn"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZaT6XPmkxg

The ministry asked responsible international actors (we're looking at you, Joe Biden) to pressure Israel not to do anything that would "complicate the situation further and cause harm to the interests of everyone without exception."

Prominent Egyptian parliamentarian and journalist (he has a talk show!) Mustafa Bakri had openly said earlier that the Egyptian border is a "red line" and its breach would threaten the Camp David Accords.

In an interview with Sky News, the former deputy head of Egyptian military intelligence, Gen. Ahmad Ibrahim, had said that from his country's point of view any Israeli take-over of the Philadelphi Corridor would constitute a breach of the Camp David Accords. He warned that Egypt's military is "powerful."

The Saudi foreign ministry also condemned the planned attack on Rafah City and any further coerced displacement of the Palestinians there. The Saudis called for an immediate ceasefire and a UN Security Council resolution against Netanyahu's plan.

This position was echoed by the spokesman for the Gulf Cooperation Council, which rejected the Israeli plan to assault Rafah after forcibly expelling the civilian population.

Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Arab states called Friday for immediate, concrete and irreversible steps to recognize a Palestinian state.

It seems clear that even countries that are more or less at peace with Israel, whether formally (Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates) or informally (Saudi Arabia) have their hair on fire about the proposed Rafah operation.

Although American newspapers depict Egypt as broke, desperate and easily manipulated, my own estimation is that Cairo absolutely will not accept the Palestinians of Gaza as refugees on its soil. The Sinai is already a security problem for Cairo, and 2 million radicalized Palestinians would make it ungovernable. No amount of debt forgiveness would make such a bitter pill go down.