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Rampant Egyptian Anti-Semitism Joins Anti-Israel Militarism As "Worrying Trend"

Hot Air nails exactly the right angle on the Cairo Mein Kampf book selling extravaganza:

Jimmy Carter likes to point to the fact that the Camp David accords are still being observed by both sides, lo these many years later. That might be true at the moment, but it won’t always be so. The government’s trying to manage the monster it helped create and it won’t be able to restrain it forever... The fair also has its darker sides, with anti-Christian polemics advocating conversion to Islam as the only solution to a flawed religion and of course plenty of editions of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” for sale...

And for what it's worth, that collapse is going to happen very, very soon:

92 percent of Egyptians see Israel as an enemy nation, over 50 percent view Denmark, US in same light. Only 2 percent call Israel friendly nation despite longstanding peace. It's been 27 years since the Camp David accords were signed, but the vast majority of Egyptians still see Israel as an enemy state... In exchange for 92 percent of Egyptians considering Israel an outright "enemy", the US has been giving Egypt cutting-edge weaponry for well over a generation. And Israel gave up the buffer zone of the Sinai. And Egypt is getting Israeli assent and US cooperation on their fledging nuclear program.

And Carter's even wrong about how both sides observing Camp David. The Egyptians have failed to live up to their treaty obligations over and over again. And in recent years, they've all but explicitly broken the treaty several times. Even the book fair can be seen as an (albeit implicit) violation of the cultural normalization clauses in the Accords, but that's not as bad as when the Egyptian government officially declared that places like Eilat are Palestinian land. That is a direct and open and flagrant violation of the parts of Camp David where Egypt commits to recognizing Israeli sovereignty over all of mandated Palestine except Gaza and the West Bank.

But hey, at least they haven't been armed to the teeth by decades of US arms transfers. And at least their radicals aren't pursuing nukes. And at least Israel still has the Sinai as a buffer zone in case war breaks out. Jimmy Carter - globetrotting peacemaker!

Previously: Carter Should Not Be Accepting Boatloads Of Money From Radical Islamists, Egypt To Pursue Nuclear Program, Olmert's Disclosure Of Israel's Nuclear Capability: At Wost, Harmless

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