Well, the Egyptian government (ie Pharaoh Hosni Mubarak the First and a few hundred femily members and close friends of the family) are telling Hamas that they must recognize Israel and honor all past treaties.
Meanwhile, when I last checked, Egypt does not currently have an ambassador or a fully-staffed diplomatic mission in place in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem as required under the 1978 treay with Israel. They recalled them for some reason or another back in 2000.
So let me get this straight…
- Egypt demands that Hamas recognizes Israel, but refuses to acknowledge recognition of Israel with a diplomatic mission.
- Egypt demands that Hamas respect and honor all past treaties with Israel, but by failing to staff a diploatic mission Egypt is violating their own 1978 treaty with Israel.
Wow. That’s some mighty impressive hypocrisy there from a dictatorial dynasty. Are we sure that Hosni Mubarak isn’t somehow related to the Kennedy family?
The saddest part is that despite Egypt’s violating the 1978 treaty, the United States still send Egypt $2 billion a year.
So, for those of you who are good at math, how many homes could that money build for Katrina evacuees to get New Orleans churning chocolate again? If not for the principle of the matter, you’d think that sheer greed would motivate the grassroots (and bad seeds) to demand that flow of money stop and flow into education or health care for illegal aliens or the National Endowment of the Arts… whatever budgetary toilet that has an open stall at the time.
C’mon, leave Egypt alone. They have all those neat pyramids an’ stuff. Heck, a lot of that wouldn’t be there were it not for the Hebrew slave labor force. So what if Pharoh Mubarek stays out of Isreal, that just means that they won’t be able to build any more cool stuff!
I’d say that 2 billion dollars, with current dollar values and house prices, would build about two, maybe three houses…so it’s not really that big a deal.
EXACTLY!
Or we could give every Chinise citizen two dollars if htey agree not to buy burned DVDs for ten cents.
Pirating doesn’t just hurt the $20 million dollar a year actor cake boy… it hurts America.
Belloq
$2 Billion from Egypt? It won’t turn NO chocolate. It’s Egyptian money. Egyptian’s aren’t chocolate. They’re somewhere between a mocca-latte beige and a urine yellow.
Factual comment: Egypt did recall its ambassador briefly, but a new ambassador was appointed as a result, I believe, of the disengagement plan, and the need for contacts between the Israelis and Egyptians on Rafah etc. Note also Egypt recently signed a gas deal with Israel, and set up a joint Qualified Industrial Zone. What more do you want?
I have a problem recalling proverbs correctly. Is it feed a fever, starve a cold, or maybe starve a terrorist, and feed the hungry.