Israel & The Nations - Egypt

Egypt's peace agreement with Israel is touted to be the role model for all other Arab-Israeli agreements. Without firing a shot, Egypt received the huge Sinai Peninsular in which Israel had invested $10 billion building flourishing cities, military and naval installations, as well as developing oil fields that would have made it energy independent for the foreseeable future.

Peace?

In return for what it gave Egypt, Israel received from Egypt a "peace treaty" a piece of paper covering some 50 items relating to "normal relations between states." Since that piece of paper was signed, Egypt has failed to "to implement any of those agreements-except for those that could be actively violated." The entire agreement, according to Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, "will fall away the minute another war breaks out between Israel and an Arab country." Mubarak has vowed "to support any Arab state in a war against Israel."

After being at "peace" with Israel for more than two decades, every night at the close of it's broadcast Egyptian television screens footage of the zenith of Egyptian military might-the opening hours of it's treacherous 1973 invasion of Israel on Yom Kippor. It should be remembered that Egypt was the initiator of the major Arab-Israeli wars-the 1948 war of independence, the 1967 Six Day War, and the 1973 Yom Kippor War. Egypt today is modernizing it's army, introducing Western military doctrine and integrating massive amounts of western equipment. United States financial aid and the United States consent to sell Egypt top-of-the-line weapons systems, has transformed the Egyptian military from a predominantly Soviet war machine. Egypt's foreign minister Amr Moussa acknowledges that Egypt's goal "is to achieve military with Israel." Israeli Air Force General (retired) Avihu Bi-Nun wrote:

  " ....the Egyptians are receiving from the Americans every weapons system Israel receives...Worse, sometimes Israel refrains from requesting a certain weapons system lest the Arabs be supplied with it...All the U.S talk about 'maintaining Israel's qualitative strength' is nonsense..."

Egyptian Prime Minister Atef Ebeid has announced that the country is ready to wage war with Israel if other Arab states provide $100 billion for war expenses. This was his answer to the question of journalists of whether or not Egypt would take actions against Israel.

The prime minister was also asked why Egypt still keeps diplomatic relations with Israel. The answer was, "I say that we need $100 billion. Let the Arab world give $100 billion of the Arab funds available around the world, and give the money to Egypt for war."