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with jimmy carter signing the very famous peace accord. egypt has also been a huge ally of israel over the past couple of years. they ve tried to block the flow of arms to hamas there in the gaza strip. they ve also tried to help broker a mideast peace deal. president mubarak has always been there at those summits and hosted a few with the israeli prime minister. relations are very close. they weren t always. it s been a dicey relationship, of course, egypt was involved in all four major wars of the first forty decades of israel s existence, the war of independence, the suez crisis and the six day war in 1967 and the yom kippur war in 1973. the families of israel diplomats have landed back here in jerusalem and tel aviv. they were flown in from cairo. they dispatched a special plane to pick them up along with picking up some businessmen that were there, israeli businessmen in the egyptian capital.

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