An Arabic paperback, The One Responsible for the Egyptian Plane Accident, was published, suggesting sabotage. There is even a theory that electromagnetic fields knocked the jet from the sky. It is a stretch, perhaps, to believe that Egypt, a country largely responsible for keeping stability in the Middle East, would find a dispute over a tragedy from one year ago to be a threat to diplomatic relations that have grown stronger every year since Anwar Sadat participated in peace talks at Camp David in 1978. The idea that diplomatic relations with Egypt are that fragile upsets Ibrahim M. Oweiss, a professor at Georgetown University and president of the Council on Egypt-American Relations, a research organization. Some things that were said early made people hurt, but I think this is natural.
People are people.
There had been a misunderstanding, a misjudgment. There are some people . THIS IS NOT the first time that an air tragedy has become entangled in diplomacy. The Netherlands, he said. In 1992, after Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi refused to turn over the alleged terrorists, the United Nations banned arms sales and air traffic to the country.