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First type of normalization with Israel that should be rejected is the cultural normalization.

It should be rejected because it has a negative impact on our culture, identity and thoughts; and for giving normalcy to the relationship between Egypt and a state that commits crimes against the people of Palestine. Culture normalization means the exchange visits of students from different universities to attend international conferences that are hosted and held by Egypt or Israel. It stands on a protocol established the signing of Camp David treaty that elaborates a huge corporation plan between Israel and Egypt (Harlow). Cultural normalization, however, may not be in Egypts favor after all. According to the article Normalization and subordination, the writer states that the cultural normalization with Egypt and Israel will negatively impact on our culture. To illustrate, he states that normalization will lead the Egyptian culture to lose its identity; and ultimately to the isolation from the Arab and Islamic countries. According to Hussein Jumaa in Haartz newspaper, normalizing with Israel culturally could lead to the coming generation to know more about Zionist intellectuals than they do about Arab men of letters. Such a rival state to Egypt, like Israel, will have their intellectuals aim at changing the new generations impression about Israel. A consequence to that is mobilizing the Egyptian public opinion to away from rejecting Israels actions Normalization and Subordination. And since ideas, like pan Arabism, unites the Arabs public opinion against Israel, due to their sympathy with Palestine, Israel will be more motivated to isolate Egypt from the rest of the Arab world. Achieving that can come by changing the ideas of new generations of the Egyptian youth about Israel via channels of cultural relations between it and Egypt. Culture normalizing, as well, like all types of normalization will add to the idea approving of or at least being indifferent about the situation in Palestine. One action taken by the Egyptian government in this direction was when Faruk Hosney, The Egyptian Minister of culture and education, refused the request of the Israeli government to participate in the international book fair that is annually held in Cairo. He justified his decision that the Israeli government is not willing to achieve peace with Arabs.

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