Egypt warns Israel not to take peace treaty for granted

Egypt is the third largest recipient of US foreign aid, which aid it receives as a direct result of its having signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979. Under that treaty, Israel gave Egypt every last grain of sand in the Sinai which Israel had captured from the Egyptians twice, once in 1956 and once again in 1967.Today, the head of the Egyptian Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee Mustafa