Peace with Egypt Was a Lie – And Jews Paid in Blood

In April 1982, as Israel implemented its peace treaty with Egypt, soldiers carried Torah scrolls out of synagogues in Yamit – an Israeli town in northeastern Sinai, just below the Gaza border, established after the 1967 Six‑Day War to anchor Israel’s hold on the peninsula – then loaded crying families onto buses and bulldozed every home so no Israeli footprint would remain. Under the 1979 Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty, Israel was required to withdraw completely from the entire Sinai Peninsula – territory roughly three times the size of pre‑’67 Israel – in return for Egypt’s formal recognition of Israel, an end to the state of war, and a demilitarized buffer to be monitored by an international force. Israeli leaders urged the nation to swallow the pain, promising that peace with Egypt would save lives and was worth the price.

It’s time to revisit the narrative. After October 7 – and after years of Hamas rocket fire, industrial tunnel‑building, Iranian weapons pipelines, and terror cash flowing through the Sinai–Gaza border under Egypt’s watch – we have to reopen the file. Egypt received all of Sinai; in return it was meant to keep that vast buffer largely demilitarized and to prevent its territory from being used to arm those firing on Israel. Yet that is precisely what Egypt enabled. The rockets, explosives, and trained killers that Hamas used to murder 1,200 Jews on October 7 moved in large part through Egyptian territory. Egypt has Jewish blood on its hands. 

What if the lesson broadcast across the Middle East in 1979–82 was not Israeli courage but Israeli weakness? What if the message heard by Israel’s Arab enemies in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza was: Push hard enough, add American pressure, and ultimately, Israel will uproot Jews from their homes. Land is negotiable. Borders are soft. Push hard enough and long enough, and eventually the Jews will fold.

...Meanwhile, the Philadelphi Corridor – the thin strip of land where Sinai touches Gaza – became a smuggling superhighway. Decades of tunnels, pipes, and bribed checkpoints let rifles, anti‑tank missiles, explosives, rockets, drones, and cash stream into Hamas hands. Intelligence veterans have long flagged Egyptian officers looking the other way. After the massacre, IDF units mapping Gaza’s underground network traced supply lines back toward Egyptian soil. A peace partner does not allow an arsenal to be built mere meters from its side of the fence.

...“You shall take possession of the Land and settle it.” (Numbers 33:53.) “You are crossing the Jordan to possess the Land.” (Deuteronomy 11:31.) “You shall smite them. You shall utterly destroy them; neither shall you make a covenant with them (Deuteronomy 7:2). And to Israel’s leaders: do not send the nation back toward dependence on Egypt for horses and chariots, for “You must never return that way again” (Deuteronomy 17:16). God could not have been more clear: Israel’s leaders must not trade away strategic and holy ground. It will only lead to servitude and bloodshed. (Ed note: A long, but very strong and intelligent article.) (Read More)