People’s Assembly Speaker Saad al-Katatni addresses the parliament in Cairo on January 23, 2012.
Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:51AM GMT
The lower house of the Egyptian parliament has unanimously approved a text declaring that Israel is the number one enemy of Egypt and calling for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador and a halt to gas exports to Israel.
On Monday, Egyptian MPs voted by a show of hands on the text of a report, which was compiled by the Arab Affairs Committee of the People’s Assembly (lower house of parliament).
“Revolutionary Egypt will never be a friend, partner or ally of the Zionist entity, which we consider to be the number one enemy of Egypt and the Arab nation,” the report declared, adding, “It will deal with that entity as an enemy, and the Egyptian government is hereby called upon to review all its relations and accords with that enemy.”
In 1979, Egypt became the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel, but was compelled to agree to supply gas to Israel as one of the main economic conditions of the US-sponsored peace deal.
According to the results of an opinion poll conducted by Synovate for Press TV and published on October 3, 2011, an overwhelming majority of Egyptians oppose the terms of the country’s gas deal with Israel.
In the poll, seventy-three percent of the respondents said they were opposed to gas exports to Israel. Only 9 percent said they approved of Egypt supplying gas to Israel, and 12 percent had no opinion.
The issue of supplying gas to Israel has always been a contentious topic for Egyptians, who view Israel as an enemy and oppose engaging in any form of business with it.
According to a $2.5 billion export deal with Tel Aviv, signed in 2005, Israel receives around 40 percent of its gas supply from Egypt at an extremely low price.
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we blacks know that, most government in middle east need our support. Now, who are the Arabs and the Zionist?
The Egyptian should tag Israel an enemy because history hold it that, blacks own Egypt but they killed us and chased us away.
Israelites were enslaved and built the old Egypt. man will never be a slave forever.
if Iran and the rest go to war with Israel who knows if God will use the period to abolish them the way he did to Babylon. Israel and the Arab to me are brothers. Could it be the long outstanding war of their ancestors that still lingering to date after many years? only God can tell and I’m hoping to sea the start and how it will end. Africa is not interested in any war.
What I hate is the campaign of some of the middle east canvas for support using religion as a means. Please stop it to enable us live in peace not in pisses. you’re all Muslim but still bomb your fellow men why?
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