Once again, the whitewashing of Israel’s enemies is front and center in the AP narrative. While Reuters managed to at least mention, deeply buried that it is, that both Egyptian presidential candidates want to “review” the peace treaty with Israel, the AP doesn’t mention it at all.
Here’s what Reuters buried far down in the article:
Both pledged to review Egypt’s 1979 peace treaty with Israel, a country Abol Fotouh described as an enemy and Moussa called an adversary.
And here’s the AP description of the debate:
The two touched on their economic platforms, the role of the military — which is due to hand over power to whoever wins the presidency — women’s role in politics and even on their own health and what salary they would take if they won.
It is extremely important to know that both candidates consider Israel at least an adversary. So much for the cold peace. Does anyone out there doubt that Egypt is going to trash the peace treaty the first chance it gets, once the Brotherhood has taken over the government? And does anyone out there doubt that the AP will spin it anti-Israel, and Reuters will bury the lede?
For a number of good reasons Israel won’t do it, but if the Egyptians trash the treaty I still wish the Israelis would respond, “If the treat is off, it’s off,” and move back into the Sinai. They won’t, of course, and they’d be branded as aggressors, international criminals…oh, you know the litany.
But as usual if the treaty is annulled by Egypt, the Arabs can do whatever they want and any Israeli response will be the sole obstacle to peace.
It’s a bit hard to fathom what Egypt would actually do if they formally tore up the treaty, apart from the rhetorical effect it would have on the filthy mobs and crazed imams. For one thing Israel would be compelled to break all diplomatic relations with Egypt, probably expel their ambassador, end all cooperative agreements between any and all Israeli and Egyptian government agencies and commercial firms and probably stop any cross border movement and/or tourism. Well the Egyptians would at any rate. Israel would beg and plead for them not to and then do nothing. Which is really at the core of the problem with Israeli policy. They have two speeds; butt kissing, and war. Whereas the Arabs have war or a cease fire.
But in any case if whomever is the Egyptian President (until of course he’s assassinated) if he really wants to break all relations with Israel I say, who needs them? Go it alone, pharaoh dudes.
If Egypt does annul the treaty, perhaps the idiotic fairy tale of “land for peace” will be dead and buried forever.
Mr. Zee,
The “Land for peace” delusion is like Dracula, it will never die; every time it is killed it will rise again from the grave to haunt the world and drink Jewish blood. If the results of the Gaza pullout did not thrust a stake through its heart and bury it for good, nothing will.