Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi crossed the 100 day mark of his Presidency earlier this week, prompting media commentary on, among other things, his efforts to reframe Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel. Al Jazeera wrote in complimentary terms about Morsi’s success in “subtly shifting the emphasis of the Camp David accords” to make the peace treaty “as much about Palestinian aspirations” as Israel’s security. In an interview with the New York Times in September, Morsi was described as demanding that the United States “live up to its Camp David commitment to Palestinian self-rule” and to ensuring Israeli withdrawal from all of the West Bank. The demand drew implicit and explicit rebukes from Israeli media outlets and pro-Israel activists to the effect that Camp David does not require Israel to withdraw from all of the West Bank, that it explicitly envisions Israel maintaining a military presence even in some territory from which it does administratively withdraw, that it only aims at Palestinian autonomy; not statehood, and that as a treaty witness rather than a signatory the U.S. doesn’t have the commitments Morsi implied.

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