Cairo, 17 August (AKI) - The Egyptian pro-democracy movement Kifaya (Enough) has announced it is collecting signatures to press the central government to revoke the historic Camp David accords. "Our objective is to collect one million signatures," the movement coordinator George al-Ishaq told Adnkronos International (AKI), "to force the government to consider this option." "Ours is a form of protest for the Israeli offensive in Lebanon and for the killing by an Israeli contingent of two Egyptian soldiers on the border with Gaza three months ago. This episode is a clear violation of the peace accords between Egypt and Israel." | If this is what passes for a "reform movement", I'll just stick with the current president for life |
Members will meet in the coming days with a team of lawyers to exmaine the legal measures required to revoke the peace accord, the first of its kind between the Jewish state and an Arab nation, which paved the way for diplomatic relations between Egypt and Israel. The Israeli offensive in Lebanon has fueled discontent and diffidence towards Israel, which while formally allied to Egypt through the 1978 Camp David accords, is still perceived as an enemy. |