The 1978 Camp David accords between Egypt and Israel has long been a cold peace which has frustrated Israeli policymakers as they quickly came to realize it was a peace treaty between Israel and Sadat’s government, not with the Egyptian people. 1/3

While Israel gained politically & geostrategically from the treaty, their economic dream to flood neighbouring Egypt’s mass market with Israeli goods came up against a widespread societal boycott that would not even see an Israeli tin can make it to a Cairo supermarket shelf. 2/3

The “treaty” that Egyptians offered Israel over the decades was consistently and implicitly conditional: Fully address the Palestinian catastrophe that you caused, then we’ll talk. 3/3