have you ever read an account of what happened in 1967 - six day war...the egyptians just ran and were as useful as a chocolate teapot....total humiliation.

Adhaf Soueif the Egyptian writer gives a great account of the debcale in her book Eye of the Sun

as far as i remember i thought Egypt didn't get the Sinaii back till 1979...

but then if you have a dictator like Mubarak in power for so long then you have to celebrate something.