Egyptians condemn Israeli attacks on Gaza, but most don't want to go to war over them From the residents of a deeply conservative Cairo neighborhood to the visitors at a massive memorial to the last major war between Egypt and Israel, almost no one was seeking war, no matter how strongly they condemned Israel. "We are all against Israel," said Adel Mohammed, 35, a music teacher who was chaperoning a squealing school group during a visit to the October War Panorama, a large monument and museum to what is mythologized in Egypt as a decisive victory over Israel in a 1973 conflict also known as the Yom Kippur War. But Morsi can help people in Gaza through aid or money. We don't want to be involved in a war," Mohammed said. Egypt is not stable economically. The Egyptian government has been walking a line between giving as much support as possible to Hamas and Gaza as it can without violating the Camp David treaty with Israel. The accords strictly limit Egypt's military presence in the Sinai Peninsula, which borders both the Gaza Strip and Israel. Many Egyptians resented Mubarak for what they saw as an overly subservient attitude toward their neighbor. During Israel's 2009 military campaign against Gaza, Mubarak was seen as acquiescing to it. This time around, Morsi has recalled Egypt's ambassador in Tel Aviv and sent his prime minister on a trip to visit Hamas's offices in Gaza City, which were subsequently destroyed in an Israeli airstrike. He has been trying to broker a ceasefire and will host UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon in Cairo on Monday. Also Monday, Mohammed al-Katatny, the head of the Muslim Brotherhood's political wing, will visit Gaza. But Morsi has stopped well short of taking an aggressive military stance against Israel. Actions have been symbolic rather than explicit. On Sunday, the administrator of Morsi's Facebook page posted one photograph of him meeting with Lt. Gen. Reda Mahmoud Hafez, the minister of state for military production and another of Morsi meeting with Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, the head of the Gaza-based Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement and Khaled Mashaal, the head of Hamas. Inside the October War Panorama, whose grounds are scattered with Egyptian fighter jets and captured Israeli tanks, a narrator reads a triumphal account of the attack against Israel in the 1973 war, which ended with a ceasefire, Israel still in control of most of the Sinai Peninsula, and Egypt and Israel having captured some territory belonging to the other. The highlight of the exhibition is a diorama and 360-degree mural of a battle in which Egyptian forces overtook Israeli troops near the Suez Canal. "Whenever I see it, I feel we are stronger than Israel," said Mohammed Yusuf, 40, a civil servant who said he visits the panorama once a year. But, he said, he was not looking for war this time around. "We have a peace deal and we are committed to it," he said. Elsewhere in Cairo, in a northeast neighborhood that is a center of ultraconservative Salafi Islamic life in the city, attitudes toward the conflict were similarly mixed. The Israeli government is trying to test the Egyptians. They want to see what we will do if they go to war with Gaza," said Abdel Aziz Matrawi, 24, a worker at an Islamic bookstore where a sermon on a blaring radio was talking about the Israeli offensive against the territory. "Mubarak slept 24 hours a day on a bed made by the Israelis," Matrawi said, condemning the former president for collusion. "But our response will be diplomacy," he said. Two months ago, Matrawi's neighborhood was a center for protests against an offensive anti-Islamic video posted on YouTube. The Salafi Nour party helped spur protests outside the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and sparked a wave of anti-American anger in many Muslim-majority countries. At the time, Morsi more clearly struggled between the need to appease an angry domestic audience and the desire to maintain billions of dollars of Western aid that streams into the country. It took days before an angry phone call from President Obama spurred Morsi to clamp down on the protests. This time, anti-Israel anger in the neighborhood is far less impassioned, though some people say they are ready for war if need be. More are worried about Egypt's struggling economy. There are bigger priorities. We are coming out of a revolution. War is not logical right now," said Abu Rawda, 45, a clothing seller who would share only his nickname. Muhammad Mansour contributed to this report.