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Editorial in the Middle East Times: The Forgotten Peace

Egypt and Israel signed a peace treaty following the Camp David accords in 1978, yet it seems someone either forgot to inform the general public on Egypt's side of the border, or that the Egyptian public is still reluctant to accept the fact that peace may exist with a former enemy.

In essence, the peace between the Arab world's largest country and the Jewish state is a peace which subsists between two governments, but not a peace between two peoples.

A reminder of just how precarious this peace is was demonstrated this week when an Egyptian film festival decided to boycott a film produced by an Israeli director.

The Cairo International Film Festival blacklisted "The Band's Visit," a film about an Egyptian police band getting lost in the Israeli desert. And the Abu Dhabi Film Festival dropped the film after the Egyptian Actors' Union threatened to boycott the festival.

These actions serve as a reminder that the unsolved Palestinian-Israeli dispute continues to contribute to an ongoing sentiment of animosity against Israel among the general public in much of the Arab world, regardless of whatever documents their governments sign...
Read entire article at Middle East Times