Egypt Calls for Expulsion of Israeli Ambassador

By Elad Benari, INN

Egypt’s Islamist-dominated parliament on Monday called for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador from Cairo and the recall of Egypt’s envoy to the Jewish state.

According to a report in AFP, which cited the Egyptian MENA news agency, the parliament unanimously approved a text prepared by the Arab affairs committee of the People’s Assembly calling for “the expulsion from Egypt of the Israeli ambassador and the recall of Egypt’s envoy from Tel Aviv.”

According to the text approved on Monday, MPs also called for a halt to gas exports to Israel.

“Egypt will never be the friend, partner or ally of the Zionist entity which we consider as the first enemy of Egypt and the Arab nation,” read the text.

It also called on the Egyptian government “to revise all its relations and agreements with that enemy.”

Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty in 1979, but there have been concerns that Egypt’s new parliament, which is dominated by the extreme Muslim Brotherhood and Salafi parties, may cancel the agreement.

The Muslim Brotherhood recently threatened to cancel the peace treaty with Israel by putting the issue up for a referendum and letting Egyptians decide. Presidential candidate Moussa Amr, however, recently rejected the possibility that the treaty would be cancelled.

Late last month, Israel’s new ambassador to Egypt, Yaakov Amitai, presented his credentials to military leader Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, who has been in power since the revolution which resulted in former President Hosni Mubarak’s ouster.

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  1. Tear up the treaty, agreed.

    The Muslim Brotherhood will lead Egypt down the toilet anyway.

    The whole Arab world is run by a bunch of hoods and terrorist who treat their citizens, especially women like crap.

    Now you have to understand why G-d led His people out of Egypt to begin with. He led them back to the Holy Land, rightfully theirs.

    They just have some crappy neighbors.

    Hamas treats the Pals like dirt, use children as shields and they continue to send rockets into Israel and world silence is deafening.

    However, when the IDF, rightfully takes action to protect her citizens the world wakes up and cries foul.

    Something wrong with this picture. I think it smells anti-Semitism.

  2. A fantastic swap. Tear up the treaty, and take back Sinai. Israel can deal with the Egyptian army!!! The cost in life? Hopefully none, or minimal, even though one is too many.

  3. drjb, I’m not certain how many you would find. Most Jews, unfortunately are caught up in the urge — born in the Jewish ghetto life in Europe — endlessly trying to explain themselves to a hostile world, rather than concentrating their efforts on building up their national power. Hasbara, which means “propaganda”, or “explanations” if you want to be polite, are their main focus. But I could not care less what anybody thinks about the Jewish nation or Jewish national rights. My only concern is national power, which, for which the bottom line is how much you can hurt your enemies and what can you do to displace them and take their lands.

    I have no conscience qualms about any of this, simply because I am interested solely in cold, stark realism. I always have understood that while everyday ethics apply to relations between individuals, families, businesses and local communities — at least in highly civilized western societies such as the USA — no such standard applies to nations and sovereign governments. This is especially true in a world best characterized by the late professor Samuel Huntington’s seminal book, “The Clash of Civilizations”. No nations are permanently at peace, and around the fringes of the Moslem world, there fester almost endless small-scale wars with non-Moslem cultures and nations. And in the heart of the Islamic world, there are equally endless clashes between adherents of the main branches of Islam itself, as well as between Arab and non-Arab Moslems such as characterize the struggles of the non-Arab Kurds against their fellow Sun’a Moslem Arabs in northern Iraq.

    Arnold Harris
    Mount Horeb WI

  4. Agreed with everything Arnold has said, now if he can only find anyone in the israeli government who agrees with him, I would be happy to support him.

  5. I for one am pleased to read that the Egyptian Islamist-dominated parliament wishes unanimously to break diplomatic relations with and terminate oil pipeline shipments to the State of Israel. The sooner the Egyptians and their frenzied mobs talk themselves into a state of war once again with Israel, then the faster Israel can repeat for the fifth time since 1948 trapping and destroying the Egyptian army in the Sinai peninsula.

    What I want this time, however, is for Israel permanently to annex the Sinai, expel any Arabs from there who will not make a firm commitment to live in peace with the Jewish state and nation, and commence large-scale civilian settlement — all of which ought to have been done shortly after each of the previous military events.

    Israel’s Jewish population since the end of the war of independence has been doubling approximately every 35 years. Today’s 6 million will become more than 12 million by the first centennial of Israeli independence in 2048. And that population will double to about 25 million some years before the end of this century. The same demographic process can and shall happen in the next century as well, and Israel must greatly expand its borders in order to accommodate these increases.

    The same steps should be taken to expand the Jewish state first to the length of the Jordan river, then across the Jordan as far as the Syrian desert, and north into Lebanon at least to the gorge of the Litani river, then later beyond that point.

    Obviously, a larger country not only has greater potential for exploitation of fossil-based energy supplies and other mineral resources, but also will greatly reduce threats of a single nuclear attack that could destroy the country merely by destroying a single large city.

    Nothing like these opportunities in service of the Jewish national territorial imperative could have been present during the 30 centuries or so that the ancient Jewish commonwealth of Joshua, Samuel and the early kings of Israel was first split in two, then overrun by repeated invasions of big and little empires, followed by the Jews being scattered among hostile kingdoms of goyim until the re-emergence of an independent state for our independent nation. But now both the need and the time for territorial expansion have come, and it must not be ignored by the Jewish national and state leadership.

    Arnold Harris
    Mount Horeb WI

  6. Israel will have to invade the Sinai for several reasons. The pipeline is just one reason. This is not ” lebensraum” but it needs the space between it and the muslim jungle.

    This issues are when and if.

    The Israelis have lost their mojo.

    If the Israelis were Chinese, for example, the palies would no longer exist.

    Israel has not done anything really bold in many years. I doubt that Israelis are interested in doing this and will pay a price.

    Iassume that military people plan and know how many tanks, planes, men,,,

    Q:When? when the world currencies plunge and no country has the financial ability to respond. When their own people are cold, hungry and broke because their currencies have no value because of their enormous govt debt, why will they come to the aid of Egypt?

  7. I think its about time Israel admitted they got dudded. Israel gave up the Sinai for a piece of paper. However, for once once in my life I am optimistic. Egypt will implode and Israel will get it back for free.