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Source: http://www.cairotimes.com/content/archiv06/sadat0637.html
The Cold Peace
(Cairo Times) Ashraf Khalil and Issandr El Amrani - Twenty-five years ago on 19 November 1977, the late President Anwar Sadat shocked the world by flying to Jerusalem, addressing the Israeli Knesset, and calling for peace with a country that Egypt had confronted in four wars, paving the way for the Camp David Peace Accords and effectively inventing the concept of a Middle East peace process. A quarter of a century later, the treaty that his trip spawned still stands, and a nervy, but lasting, peace between the peoples endures. But relations between Egypt and Israeli are considered by many on both sides to be at an all-time post-Camp David low. In August, when President Bush threatened to withhold future U.S. aid (but not the $2 billion in annual Camp David funds) over the jailing of activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim, many in Egypt called for the government to simply walk away from its Camp David obligations.