What do Palestinians think of the Camp David Agreement?

Expert answers from Palestinian voices

Alternative Question Forms

Was the Camp David Agreement a mistake?
2
Expert Answers
Palestinian perspectives on this question

Answers (2)

Expert perspectives from Palestinian voices

Ahmed Mansour mentioned the following sayings in this video:

  • The Camp David Accords, which President Anwar Sadat signed with the Israelis, will remain a milestone in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict because, in short, it gave the Israelis the right to usurp Palestinian lands.
  • Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, founder of the Hamas movement, says about the agreement: It is the beginning of the Arab retreat in the face of the Israeli settlement attack, and the days have proven that it is so, and it has torn apart Arab unity and the Arab wall as for Israel.
  • Lieutenant General Saad Al-Shazly says about the agreement: What peace? Peace must be between two rivals and there must be a concession from both parties. But Sinai is still demilitarized, and we are not allowed to have aircraft or a military airport inside Sinai or missile air defense.

Dr. Mustafa Barghouti said in this video:

What was proposed in Camp David was just talking about an independent government. The terms were not clear and do not forget who was leading Israel at that time, Menachem Begin, one of the most far extremists. And all the story of Camp David was a kind of trade. One of its main points is to give up on the Palestinian side. Therefore, the Palestinians saw in it a sad exit for Egypt from the battlefield with Israel. Therefore, of course, there was an objection to the Camp David Agreement at that time, a big objection.

I think that if we go back in history, it was better for the Arabs and the Palestinians to stay with us in one line and not to allow Israel to separate them one by one.