The Egyptian al-Karama party, whose leader plans to run in the upcoming presidential elections, has said the cancellation of the Camp David Accords is its top priority, according to a report by the Egyptian newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm. 

Al-Karama party representative Amin Iskander said the party wishes to cancel the agreement “immediately because it’s not in Egypt’s interest.” 

Iskander continued, saying “we befriend those who want to befriend us, and become enemies of those who want to turn us into an enemy,” the report said. 

The al-Karama party plans to field its leader Hamdin Sabbahy in Egypt’s next presidential elections. 

A recent poll by the U.S.-based Pew Research Center indicated that more than half of all Egyptians would like to see the 1979 peace treaty with Israel annulled, while only 36 percent of Egyptians are in favor of maintaining the treaty. 

-haaretz.com, 16 June 2011

The people’s pro-democracy movement was successful in ousting President Mubarak, but seems to be a distance away from establishing real democracy. Canceling the Camp David Agreement would place Egypt in the category of violator.

We are reminded here of Isaiah 36:6: “Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.” The Bible makes it clear that Egypt is not to be relied on.

(For more on the Arab uprising, read Democracy Invades Islam, our upcoming release.)

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