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The Erosion of Israel-Egypt Relations and What Went Wrong – Opinion

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Yaakov Katz

Jerusalem Post, Mar. 28, 2025

“Of the articles that mentioned Israel, over 85% were negative, with many veering into outright antisemitism.”

There were no ceremonies this year: none in Jerusalem, none in Cairo, and none in Washington. There were no commemorations, no speeches, and not even a symbolic gesture to mark the 46th anniversary of the Camp David Accords, signed at the White House this week in 1979.

What was once hailed as a historic breakthrough in Middle East diplomacy – a peace agreement that changed the course of the Arab-Israeli conflict – passed without notice, buried under political tension and indifference.

The question is: How did we get here? How did a peace deal that once demonstrated that reconciliation between Israel and its neighbors was possible become so irrelevant that not even a phone call between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or President Isaac Herzog and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was reported? There were no public acknowledgments in Israel and certainly nothing in Egypt.

Instead of celebrations, what we have is tension. The IDF has been on heightened alert along the Egyptian border ever since relations began to sour in May when Israel launched a ground offensive into southern Gaza.

As part of the operation, Israeli forces took control of the Philadelphi Corridor, the eight-mile strip of land that separates the Gaza Strip from Egypt. The move sparked alarm in Cairo, prompting Egypt to reinforce its own military presence in the Sinai Peninsula….SOURCE

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