以色列财政部长贝扎莱尔·斯莫特里赫周一表示，如果埃及攻击以色列，埃及将失去西奈半岛。
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Monday that Egypt would lose the Sinai Peninsula if it attacked Israel.
斯莫特里赫在一段从家中录制的视频采访中说：“是什么让埃及不攻击我们？是让他们明白，如果他们攻击我们，至少西奈半岛将不复存在。”
“What would make Egypt not attack us? The understanding that if they attack us, there will be no Sinai at least,” Smotrich said in a video interview from his home.
他补充说，这种情况“不会再发生”。埃及当局尚未就其言论立即作出回应。
He added that such a scenario “will not happen again.”There was no immediate comment from Egyptian authorities on his remarks.
这番言论是在埃及纪念1973年战争前夕发表的，该战争为西奈半岛在以色列占领多年后最终归还铺平了道路。
The comments came on the eve of Egypt’s commemoration of the 1973 war, which paved the way for the eventual return of the Sinai Peninsula following years of Israeli occupation.
周一早些时候，埃及总统阿卜杜勒·法塔赫·塞西表示，埃及武装部队随时准备“在任何时间和任何情况下”保卫埃及、其资源和国家安全。1978年《戴维营协议》签署后，埃及和以色列于1979年3月在华盛顿特区签署了和平条约，结束了两国之间的战争状态，并规定以色列从西奈半岛撤军。数十年来，该条约一直是埃及和以色列正式关系的基础。
Earlier Monday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said the country’s armed forces remained ready to defend Egypt, its resources and national security “at all times and under any circumstances.”Egypt and Israel signed a peace treaty in Washington, DC in March 1979 following the 1978 Camp David Accords, ending the state of war between the two countries and providing for Israel’s withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula. The treaty has remained the foundation of formal relations between Egypt and Israel for decades.