Egypt-Israel treaty

Press, 9 April 1979, Page 20

Egypt-Israel treaty

Sir, —The devious nature of the United States-Egypt-Israel treaty (it is calculated cynicism to call it a peace treaty) is shown by the United States-Israel memorandum (“The Press,” March 30) which pledges United States economic and military support to Israel should Egypt violate the treaty. No similar memorandum pledging United States support to Egypt should Israel violate the treaty, suggests the Aesopian situation of the United States lion and the Israeli jackal forming a defensive alliance against the Egyptian lamb. To oppose and condemn Israel’s ruthless aggression, its callously inhuman trampling on the rights of the Palestinians, its shameless flouting of international law and the norms of relations between states,

which bear an appalling similarity to the behaviour of the Third Reich from which Jews suffered so much, is not anti-Semitism, as B. P. Liddell would have it, it is the stand of the overwhelming majority of United Nations members. — Yours, etc., M. CREEL, April 7, 1979.