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December 24, 2006
Egypt Demands Eilat
It will be remembered that the 1967 war broke out after Egypt closed the straits of Tiran and strangled the trade from Israel's southern port city of Eliat.
Yet it is hardly known by anyone that Egypt has staked a claim to the city of Eilat, ever since Egypt lost Eilat to the nascent state of Israel in the wake of the Israeli defeat of the Egyptian army in the 1948 war and the expulsion of the Egyptians from this southern port city on the Red Sea.
Now, in wake of recent reports about plans to dig a canal linking the Red Sea on the Israeli side and the Dead Sea on its Jordanian side, a fiery argument broke out in Egypt's parliament, with the MPs speaking out against the "Israeli plot to choke the Suez Canal to death."
In the course of the debate, which has been going on in parliament for the last two days, Abed el-Aziz Sayef a-Nasser, an aide to the Egyptian foreign minister, was called as an expert witness. A-Nasser is the director of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry's legal department.
"Eilat, or by its former name Umm Rashrash, belongs to the Palestinians," he said, representing the opinion of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry.
To read the rest of this story from Israel Insider, please click here.
Don't be surprised when Peace Now soon starts agitating for Eilat to be handed over to the Arabs -- and while they are at it, why not Tel Aviv? You see, the Arabs have a very simple plan, destroy the Jewish state -- from within. Use Jews to deligitimize the Jewish homeland. Once you get Jews to agree that Jews should not live in Gaza, then it becomes that much easier to convince everyone that Jews should not live in Judea and Samarai. From there, this inverted morality leads you to a Judenrein Jerusalem; starting with the neighborhoods of, say Katamon or Baka, afterall, Arabs used to live in both neighborhoods, right? So why not Eilat? Why not Haifa? The truth is this is an existential conflict. The Arabs have no interest in building a state -- only destroying a state: Israel. Wretched groups like Peace Now are, as always, gripped by a twisted pathology, and only the bloody end of the Jewish state will satisfy their desire for self-destruction.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at December 24, 2006 11:25 AM
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You gotta love the Egyptians getting angry on the grounds that Eilat "belongs formally to Egypt and administratively to the Palestinians" when the PLA is one of the groups supporting the investigative study. It seems to me that Middle Eastern countries try and figure out what is logical and sensical and then advocate the opposite.
Posted by: Fern R at December 24, 2006 07:24 PM
Fern:
The default position/emotion/whatever for every Arab society in regard to Israel is fury, outrage, humiiation, and of course that old chestnut; shame -- emotions better suited to pre-adolescent children with little impulse control. No wonder Arab cultures produce nothing of material value, and are riddled with tribal and sectarian violence.
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at December 24, 2006 08:58 PM
Peace Now would never demand the return of Eilat.
Peace Now is only interested in getting rid of locations particularly important to religious Jews.
Posted by: JoeSettler at December 25, 2006 05:15 AM
JoeSettler:
Thanks so much for your comment. You have a much more benign view of Peace Now than I do. I believe that they won't be satisfied until Israel is destroyed.
P.S. You have a great blog.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at December 25, 2006 09:54 AM