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What Now for Egypt's Uneasy Peace with Israel?
(Telegraph-UK) Nervana Mahmoud - Mohamed Morsi's victory in the Egyptian presidential election has triggered fear regarding the future of the Camp David peace treaty. There is an air of hostility in Egypt toward Israel; the public is in no mood to establish warm relationships with what many still describe as the "Zionist entity." This description is widespread across society, and recent polls from the Pew Research Center have shown that most Egyptians favor overturning the 1979 peace treaty. If militant groups succeed in infiltrating Israel from Sinai and manage to cause widespread casualties, they could drag the Egyptians and the Israelis into an undesired confrontation. The survival of the treaty may depend on how Morsi's Egypt controls the security situation in Sinai, and how he will handle the "brothers" in Gaza. Even if Egypt under Morsi's leadership can maintain the treaty, the peace is gone, and it won't be back for a long time.