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    Egypt's Coptic Christians flee Sinai & Camp David Accords

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    Post by Lobo Sun 26 Feb 2017, 4:26 pm

    Egypt's Coptic Christians flee Sinai after deadly attacks

    • 25 February 2017

    (Camp David Accords - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_David_Accords -- BIG MISTAKE FOR ISRAEL TO GIVE BACK THE SINAI - NOW LOOK AT THE MESS, AND THIS ALSO INCLUDES THE WEST BANK AND GAZA) - see below for the article -

    Framework Peace Treaty Egypt and Israel

    The second framework[24] outlined a basis for the peace treaty six months later, in particular deciding the future of the Sinai peninsula. Israel agreed to withdraw its armed forces from the Sinai, evacuate its 4,500 civilian inhabitants, and restore it to Egypt in return for normal diplomatic relations with Egypt, guarantees of freedom of passage through the Suez Canal and other nearby waterways (such as the Straits of Tiran), and a restriction on the forces Egypt could place on the Sinai peninsula, especially within 20–40 km from Israel. This process would take three years to complete. Israel also agreed to limit its forces a smaller distance (3 km) from the Egyptian border, and to guarantee free passage between Egypt and Jordan. With the withdrawal, Israel also returned Egypt's Abu-Rudeis oil fields in western Sinai, which contained long term, commercially productive wells.
    The agreement also resulted in the United States committing to several billion dollars worth of annual subsidies to the governments of both Israel and Egypt, subsidies which continue to this day, and are given as a mixture of grants and aid packages committed to purchasing U.S. materiel. From 1979 (the year of the peace agreement) to 1997, Egypt received military aid of US$1.3 billion annually, which also helped modernize the Egyptian military.[25] (This is beyond economic, humanitarian, and other aid, which has totaled more than US$25 billion.) Eastern-supplied until 1979, Egypt now received American weaponry such as the M1A1 Abrams Tank, AH-64 Apache gunship and the F-16 fighter jet. In comparison, Israel has received $3 billion annually since 1985 in grants and military aid packages.[26]
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    Dozens of Coptic Christian families in Egypt have fled North Sinai province after a number of killings in recent weeks by suspected Islamist militants.
    Many have now taken refuge in the Evangelical Church in the Suez Canal city of Ismailiya.
    The Coptic Church has condemned the attacks, saying they were aimed at "dividing" Egyptians.
    On Sunday, Islamic State militants released a video, warning of more attacks on Egypt's Christian minority.
    The Copts - who make up about 10% of the country's 90 million population - have often been targeted by Islamists in recent years.
    Most of the Islamist militant attacks of recent years have been focused on the Sinai peninsula, where an IS-linked jihadist group is active, but the capital Cairo has also suffered a string of attacks in the past two years.

    'Scared of our shadows'

    About 250 Christians with their belongings were now in Ismailiya's church, deacon Nabil Shukrallah said on Friday.
    "They've come running with their children. It's a very difficult situation. We're expecting 50 or 60 more," he told the AFP news agency.
    Meanwhile, refugees said they were now "scared of our shadows", adding that they "are being targeted in an ugly way".
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    Many of them were from the city of El-Arish, where at least seven Christians have been killed.
    Egypt has seen a wave of attacks by militants since 2013 when the military overthrew President Mohammed Morsi, an elected leader who hailed from the Muslim Brotherhood, and launched a crackdown against Islamists.
    Some of Mr Morsi's supporters blamed Christians for supporting the overthrow.
    In December, a bomb explosion in the Coptic Christian cathedral in killed at least 25 people.


    What is the Coptic Christian faith?

    The Coptic Orthodox Church is the main Christian Church in Egypt. While most Copts live in Egypt, the Church has about a million members outside the country.
    Copts believe that their Church dates back to around 50 AD, when the Apostle Mark is said to have visited Egypt. Mark is regarded as the first Pope of Alexandria - the head of their church.
    This makes it one of the earliest Christian groups outside the Holy Land.



    Media captionWho are Egypt's Coptic Christians?
    The Church separated from other Christian denominations at the Council of Chalcedon (451 AD) in a dispute over the human and divine nature of Jesus Christ.
    The early Church suffered persecution under the Roman Empire, and there were intermittent persecutions after Egypt became a Muslim country. Many believe that continues to this day.
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39085285

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