Egypt is not at peace with Israel, admits John Kerry
FacebookTwitter
By Moshe Phillips
May 14, 2013

In a press conference in Washington on April 30th U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry admitted that Egypt is not at peace with Israel.

In response to reporter's question about what is now being called the "Arab League land swap proposal" Kerry declared:

"This is literally a statement by the Arab world that they are prepared to make peace providing the Palestinians and Israelis reach a final status agreement. I don't think you can underestimate the – I don't underestimate the significance of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, [United] Arab Emirates, the Egyptians, the Jordanians, and others coming to the table and saying, "We are prepared to make peace now in 2013," ..." [See the full State Department transcript of Kerry's April 30th remarks here:

http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2013/04/208647.htm.]

A simple question: If Egypt and Jordan are already "at peace" with Israel than how can they be "saying, "We are prepared to make peace now in 2013," ..."

Kerry said what everyone really knows. That is, Egypt may not be in a state of war with Israel right at this moment. And Egypt may have not taken overt military action against Israel since the 1970s but that is a far cry from peace.

Egypt's stance towards Israel is now (and was throughout the Mubarak era) one that can only be truly categorized as adversarial.

The United States and Canada are at peace. Israel and Egypt?

It should also be mentioned that Egypt's mass media is notoriously anti-Semitic and has remained stridently so since the Camp David Accords. In 2002, the ADL reported that the anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion "Emerge(d) as Key Theme (on an) Egyptian TV Series." There had been numerous other examples of similar things throughout Mubarak's rule. Anti-Semitic images were frequently used during the Arab Spring riots in Cairo. [See this author's January 2011 article about anti-Semitism during the Egyptian Revolution at http://frontpagemag.com/2011/moshe-phillips/the-future-of-egyptian-jew-hatred-is-now-2/.]

This was not a mere slip of the tongue for Kerry. He knows full well that Egypt's peace with Israel is a sham. What's worse is that the State Department expects Israel to continue to negotiate away the strategic depth that it won in battle to neighbors that have never shown even the slightest interest in being neighborly or peaceful. The dangers to Israel have been compounded over the last two years as nations throughout the Arab world have shown remarkable instability. Kerry has admitted what everyday Israelis have always known: their peace agreement with Egypt is a piece of paper that means nothing to the average Egyptian.

The territory that Israel gained in 1967 provided it with strategic depth that proved to be vital to Israel's ability to defend itself.

Israel's standing army is a small percentage of its military strength. The territory that Kerry would have Israel swap takes time for enemy forces to cross and allows the Israeli army reserve to be called up and enter combat. This is something the Arab world learned in 1973 during the first days of the Yom Kippur War.

Prime Minister Netanyahu fought on the front lines in that war. Let's hope he never forgets that those lands saved Israel's cities from destruction then and may have to serve the same purpose again.

© Moshe Phillips

 

The views expressed by RenewAmerica columnists are their own and do not necessarily reflect the position of RenewAmerica or its affiliates.
(See RenewAmerica's publishing standards.)

 

Stephen Stone
HAPPY EASTER: A message to all who love our country and want to help save it!

Stephen Stone
The most egregious lies Evan McMullin and the media have told about Sen. Mike Lee

Siena Hoefling
Protect the Children: Update with VIDEO

Stephen Stone
Flashback: Dems' fake claim that Trump and Utah congressional hopeful Burgess Owens want 'renewed nuclear testing' blows up when examined

Rev. Mark H. Creech
Pillars of society: Reclaiming traditional motherhood in modern times

Randy Engel
A Documentary: Opus Dei and the Knights of Columbus – The anatomy of a takeover bid, Part III

Curtis Dahlgren
Have we finally reached the stomach-turning point?

Linda Kimball
The Kingdom of the Lord, the Kingdom of Satan, and Spiritual Warfare

Jerry Newcombe
The 'death to America' crowd

Paul Cameron
U.S. university/research complex now an apologist for homosexuality?

Jim Wagner
Islam’s conversion of the Jews

Linda Goudsmit
CHAPTER 17: Cultural Terrorism Comes to America

Cliff Kincaid
Biden consolidates power as Republicans are divided

Michael Bresciani
Make these four changes or the nation is lost

Randy Engel
A documentary: Opus Dei and the Knights of Columbus: The anatomy of a takeover bid, Part II

Rev. Mark H. Creech
Navigating faith and civic responsibility: Pastor Loran Livingston’s controversial sermon
  More columns

Cartoons


Click for full cartoon
More cartoons

Columnists

Matt C. Abbott
Chris Adamo
Russ J. Alan
Bonnie Alba
Chuck Baldwin
Kevin J. Banet
J. Matt Barber
Fr. Tom Bartolomeo
. . .
[See more]

Sister sites