"And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week" Daniel 9:27 (KJV)
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As Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak fights a seemingly
lost battle against protesters seeking his ouster, Israel has asked the
global community to make it clear to any regime in the country that it
must abide fully by the peace agreement with the Jewish state.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged the
international community to make it clear to any new Egyptian leadership
that will emerge that it must meet a series of conditions in return for
receiving legitimacy in the eyes of the West, similar to those posed to
Hamas following the Islamist movement’s victory in Palestinian
elections, senior officials told daily Ha’aretz.
The
Mideast Quartet of the UN, the U.S. EU and Russia, have demanded that
Hamas relinquish terrorism, recognise Israel and accept as binding
previous negotiated agreements between the Palestine Liberation
Organisation and Israel if it wants international acceptance.
The Israeli Premier is not drawing a comparison between the
two situations but would like the international community to add this
condition among others, including a return to democracy and respect for
human rights, the officials said.
“The matter was
made clear to the Americans and many other countries,” a senior official
in Jerusalem told the daily adding, “We are not opposed to democracy in
Egypt but it is important for us to preserve the peace agreement.”
The Prime Minister’s Bureau issued a statement yesterday
to clarify the Israeli position on the situation in Egypt.
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel’s
interest is to preserve the peace with Egypt...Israel believes that the
international community must require any Egyptian government to preserve
the peace agreement with Israel,” it said.
The more
than three-decade-long peace agreement between the two countries has
ensured that Israel did not have to face any major War in the region.
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