Former Obama administration Mideast envoy Dennis Ross wrote Monday that the U.S. must make clear to Egypt that if it continues to violate its commitments under the Camp David Accords, it would jeopardize its U.S. funding. Ross, writing in the Washington Post, made the statement in light of the recent deployment of Egyptian soldiers in Sinai, after a terror attack in which nearly 20 Egyptian soldiers were killed.

Ross said that Egypt's current rulers, the Muslim Brotherhood, must “come to terms with reality,” that they were committed to the Accords. Ross said that the denial by Egyptian President Mohammed Morsy that he had not responded to a letter of congratulations sent to him by President Shimon Peres, and the attempt by the Brotherhood to blame the Mossad for the terror attack, prove that the group cannot tolerate any circumstances that contradicts its philosophy.