Historical Dictionary of Israel

EGYPT

Egypt: translation

Israel's neighbor to the west and the southwest with which it fought in theWar of Independence(1948—49), theSinai War(1956), theSix-Day War(1967), theWar of Attrition(1969-70), and theYom Kippur War(1973). During the War of Independence, Egyptian forces succeeded in retaining a portion of the territory that was to have been a part of theArabstate inPalestineand known since as theGaza Strip. Egypt held the territory under military control until 1967, except for a brief period in 1956-57, when Israel held it during and immediately after the Sinai War. Following the Egyptian revolution and the accession of Gamal Abdul Nasser to power in the 1950s, the stage was set for a second round of warfare. Cross-borderfedayeenraids from Gaza into Israel and a substantial increase in the armaments of the Egyptian army (via theCzechoslovakian-Egyptian arms dealof 1955), as well as the increased activism of the Nasser regime, helped to provide the context for the Sinai War.
The conclusion of that conflict was followed by a decade of relative calm along the Egypt-Israel frontier that was broken by the Six-Day War, in which Israel took the Gaza Strip and theSinai Peninsula.The War of Attrition initiated by Nasser in the spring of 1969 was terminated by a cease-fire in the summer of 1970. The Egyptian-and Syrian-initiated Yom Kippur War was followed by movement in the direction of a settlement. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger from theUnited Stateshelped to arrange anIsrael-Egypt disengagement agreement, which was signed in January 1974, and theSinai II Accordsof September 1975. Following the 1977 initiative ofPresident Anwar Sadat, Israel and Egypt began negotiations for peace, which led to theCamp David Accordsin September 1978 and theEgypt-Israel Peace Treatyof March 1979.
Peace and the normalization of relations followed—ambassadors were exchanged, trade andtourismdeveloped, and continued contacts were sustained between the two states. Nevertheless, the relationship between the two countries could best be characterized by the concept of a "cold peace," in which formal ties exist and some intercourse occurs, but their links could not be characterized as friendly or warm in nature. There are continuing differences between Cairo andJerusalemover relations with the Palestinians as well as over Egypt's concerns about Israel's status on the broader Middle Eastern geopolitical,economic, and strategic landscape. An area of concern from Israel's perspective relates to Egypt's fulfillment of its responsibility to maintain security along the Gaza-Sinai border, including stopping the smuggling of weapons through underground tunnels, following Israel's disengagement from the Gaza Strip in August-September 2005.
See alsoArab-Israeli Conflict; Arab League (League of Arab States); Foreign Policy; Taba.

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