Within the framework of the Egyptian state’s keenness to support the Palestinian cause and the rights of the Palestinian people, reject and denounce hostile policies and measures against them, and exert efforts and efforts to find a just, comprehensive, and lasting solution to the Arab Israeli conflict.

Prof. Gamal Shakra, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the Faculty of Education and former Director of the Center for Middle East Research and Future Studies, supervised and edited a book entitled “Egypt’s Position on the Palestinian Issue” at the Cairo International Book Fair in its fifty-fifth session, with the participation of several researchers at Ain Shams University.

The book “Egypt and the Palestinian Issue between the Past and the Present” sheds light on Egypt’s pivotal role in the Palestinian issue, starting from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 until the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation in October 2023, based on the historical constants of Egyptian policy towards the Palestinian issue, and the geographical and strategic importance that Palestine represents in The region, where Egypt played a historic and pivotal role since the Balfour Declaration of 1917, through the changes that the Egyptian state witnessed following the outbreak of the July 1952 revolution, then the tripartite aggression in October 1956, and the setback of 1967, but this did not affect the continuity of the Egyptian role in supporting the cause, which was clearly evident. During the phase of Egypt’s adoption of peace as a strategic option, the beginnings of which were represented by the peace negotiations during the subsequent phase of the October 6 War, 1973, President Sadat’s visit to Jerusalem in November 1977, and the signing of the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel during November 1979, where the Palestinian issue was at the heart of those negotiations. This matter remained in place as a fundamental restriction in the constants of Egyptian foreign policy, until President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi took power in June 2014, so that Egypt continued its historically usual role in light of an important period in the history of the issue in light of regional and international developments, by moving in parallel political and humanitarian paths. And changed the mediation efforts to put the internal Palestinian house in order considering the outbreak of what was called Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023, which is considered a pivotal change in the history of the Palestinian issue.