Egypt back in fold
Socialist Organiser1984 1984-02-09Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 6 →
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IN January, Egypt was readmitted to the Islamic Conference Organisation (ICO) from which it was expelled after signing the Camp David Agreement "separate seace with Israei 1: 19-9. Eg:: has co: renounced C== Daci. so the 19°3 Parce Tea it. Israel still CADE Tart and fasi after DEMI = lE or PLO leader Sa did * I00 daision IT IF 4 in Ibe ippirit in the decision. but =ET consenient: out of the hall =hen the role was laken.
In icality. Exypt's exclusion from the Arab fold has only ¡ner been formal - diplomatic and political rather than econnic. Official Arab aid mas =m-pended. but nor private im vestment. and there was never interference in the important migration of Egyptian workers throughout the region. And over the last two years, the diplomatic heat has been easing off a lot.
Egypt is the most populous Arab state, and militarily the most powerful. It used to be the most politically important, and has nor ceased to be politically central to the region since Camp David.
Both the Egyptian-Israeli-U'S Camp David Agreement and the Prazan Prace Plan are part of an attempt to establish a tighi neisod of primperialis stales tirin! Fould DAD VERTE 301 FUMES INTES IT region - especiall! bosse of L'S imperialism - against internal subversion, regional disruption and against the perceived 'Soviet threat'.
If Egypt is made 'acceptable' in the eyes of the other reactionary states in the Middle East, it strengthens this aim and thus Egypt is taken back into the Islamic fold. a brother or a father . . . when there is no brother the father is taken away . . . among those taken away was my son Salim.. on 14 August 1982. When he