Anti-Semitic Incitement in Egypt After Egypt’s Peace Treaty with Israel
About the Egyptian government’s poor job in fighting anti-Semitism, even after signing a peace treaty with Israel. They even have war games against Israel when training their soldiers.
In 1977, Anwar Al-Sadat, Egypt’s then-president, traveled to Israel to make a speech to the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, proposing peace. However, in that speech, Sadat attacked Israel’s legitimacy. He said:
I shall not indulge in past events such as the Balfour Declaration 60 years ago. You are well acquainted with the relevant text. If you have found the moral and legal justification to set up a national home on a land that did not all belong to you, it is incumbent upon you to show understanding of the insistence of the people of Palestine for establishment once again of a state on their land.
So in other words, Israel doesn’t even belong to them. So according to Sadat, if the Jews found “moral and legal justification to set up national home on a land that did not belong” to them, then “it is incumbent upon you [the Israelis] to show understanding of the insistence of the People of Palestine for the establishment once again” of a state, in other words, to establish a state for the “rightful owners.” Sadat says “once again” using the idea of a Palestinian state to attack Israel, despite the historical fact that there was never a state called “Palestine.” It was a region named by the Romans to insult the Jews by naming it after one of their historic enemies the Philistines. Palestine is the English world for Palestinia, the name the Romans gave it and which is the Latin world for Palestine. It fell under different empires, Roman, Byzantine, Islamic empires [except for the crusades] and then the British. And the Balfour declaration was supported by the League of Nations. And also, if there was no genocidal plot to attack the Jews, that is no ” war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades” [Azzam Pasha, then Secretary General of the Arab League], there would be a Palestinian state coexisting peacefully with Israel. When Jordan had the West Bank and Egypt had Gaza, no one called on them to establish a Palestinian state. And article 24 the 1964 PLO charter said:
This Organization does not exercise any territorial sovereignty over the West Bank in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, on the Gaza Strip or in the Himmah Area. Its activities will be on the national popular level in the liberational, organizational, political and financial fields.
So it was used as a propaganda stunt against Israel, a propaganda stunt that Sadat had the nerve to spew when he was trying to make peace with Israel. Yes, the Camp David agreements did call for normalizing relations with Israel, which includes recognizing Israel’s right to exist. Yes, Egypt was suspended by the Arab League for signing that treaty [Egypt was allowed back in the Arab League in 1987]. It was the first time Israel signed a peace treaty with an Arab nation. Yes the treaty was condemned by the Arab states, the PLO and Islamists, all three of whom sought to continue the genocidal bloodbath against Israel until Israel and her Jewish majority are destroyed.
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