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Op-Ed World October 13, 2025

Is the Sharm El-Sheikh Peace Agreement similar to a new Camp David?

Can you imagine the scene from the theater of the absurd, unfolding today, when Donald Trump stands behind President Abdel Fatah El-Sissi and whispers to him how to invite Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, to Sharm El-Sheikh to sign the ceasefire agreement with Hamas? How on stage, the Israeli leader and the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, are seated in different corners, and in the middle, Donald Trump sits enthroned, in the form of the Little Prince, talking to the stars? In order for the play staged in the theater of a luxury resort to have tension, one by one, 30 other leaders of the planet take to the improvised stage, led by Emmanuel Macron, Recep Erdogan, and Arab sheikhs and emirs. The whole game is so that the Nabob, freshly stripped of the Nobel Peace Prize that was his due, will seem like a new Jimmy Carter, in his rush to achieve peace between Israel and Egypt in 1978, which brought him the long-awaited Oslo Prize. Except that Nicolae Ceaușescu, the architect of the famous peace agreement, is missing from the play that is being played on humanity’s big screens today. The Romanian dictator was at that time almost completely dissociated from the foreign policy of the USSR. Being a friend of Anwar El Sadat but also of Menachem Begin, the then prime minister of Israel, Nicolae Ceaușescu was received with state honors at the White House and was given every favor to mediate the much-desired peace in the Golan Heights. On September 17, 1978, six months after the Romanian presidential couple’s visit to Washington, the Camp David peace was signed between Israel and Egypt.

Returning to the play “Rhinoceros,” the banal discussions between Jean and Bérenger, two architects of nothingness, are interrupted by the appearance of a rhinoceros that crushes a woman’s cat. And from there, everyone is on fire. Like the setting in the play by Eugen Ionesco, the inventor of the theater of the absurd, Donald Trump’s appearance in Sharm El-Sheikh, in the guise of a geopolitical elephant, holds the participants of the dinner with koshary and molokhia, traditional grilled fish dishes, accountable and validates the action.

Donald Trump needs an agreement in Sharm El-Sheikh like air. Anyway, the crimes in Gaza have horrified the planet. The Palestine Liberation Organization has gathered too many fans. Basically, the Israeli army has managed in an extremely short time to antagonize half the planet. Although the old Balfour Declaration is not known, it has become fashionable to fight for Palestine, even if many do not know that the current territory of the West Bank is the seat of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

If the Camp David Accords earned Jimmy Carter the Nobel Peace Prize, why wouldn’t Donald Trump deserve it? What is not known is that the American president, host of the crucial event of the 70s, lost the presidential election that followed due to the Iranian hostage crisis. Moreover, Anwar El Sadat was assassinated by a so-called Egyptian patriot, to be punished for an unforgivable deal with the Israelis, shortly after the Peace Accords were signed.

Following the treaty, both Israel and Egypt became major recipients of American military and financial aid. In 1979, over 40,000 Iranian Jews migrated to Israel, fleeing the Islamic Revolution. Yasser Arafat’s good friend, Nicolae Ceaușescu, would be assassinated 11 years later, with the support of those who did not approve of his independence, former cadres of the USSR.

By Marius Ghilezan

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