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September 19, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://www.spacewar.com/2003/030916033608.ibtipun2.html

25 Years After the Peace Accords, Egypt Hit Low

(AFP/SpaceDaily) - Twenty-five years after Egypt and Israel signed the historic Camp David peace accords, their strained marriage seems colder than ever. "Egypt no longer has an ambassador in Tel Aviv, political ties are bad, economic exchanges are frozen, and the Egyptian people are increasingly hostile toward Israel," said Egyptian researcher Emad Gad, a specialist in Israeli-Egyptian relations at the Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies. "Most of today's students were born after the return of Egyptian territory (in 1982), and that has not stopped them from listing Israel as the number one enemy," he said. Israel's ambassador to Egypt, Gideon Ben-Ami, said Israel's exports to Egypt have dropped from $47 million in 2001 to $22 million in 2002. Egyptian exports to Israel, especially oil, are stable at around $20.3 million annually.

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