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Source: http://english.alarabiya.net/views/2011/10/24/173404.html
Poll: Egyptians Support Peace Treaty with Israel
(Al-Ahram-Egypt-Al Arabiya) Abdel Monem Said - Whenever there were Arab-Israeli peace negotiations, observers would inevitably ask whether a peace agreement would survive a change in Arab leadership. There have always been Arab political forces opposed to the very idea of peace with Israel and that saw the conflict with that state not as a territorial-border dispute but as an existential clash. However, history has proven that peace agreements with Israel can withstand changes in Arab leaderships. A recent opinion poll conducted by the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies is instructive. Only 4% of Egyptians favor recourse to war for various reasons while 7% are for abolishing the peace treaty with Israel, 12% for expelling the Israeli ambassador from Cairo, and 11% for recalling the Egyptian ambassador from Israel. 62% would like to see the peace agreement to continue, but with amendments intended to enhance Egyptian security. Another 23% wants the peace treaty to remain exactly as it is.