Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Revolt in Egypt: Israel wants to slow down Western Mubarak's critics

The Israeli secret communication from the government includes a desperate plea: a report by the Israeli newspaper "Haaretz", according to Jerusalem, the United States and several European countries to be invited to support the Egyptian government of President Hosni Mubarak. It is "in the interest of the West" and the "whole Middle East, the stability of the Egyptian regime to maintain," quoted "Hareetz" from the message.


The newspaper on the basis that Israeli government officials. "It follows that any public criticism of President Hosni Mubarak will be slowed down," it said in the letter, therefore, also reported about the Israeli military radio. The message was therefore sent to the end of last week. "Hareetz" According to the Israeli Foreign Ministry also sent appropriate instructions to its embassies around a dozen in the United States, Canada, China and several European countries.

The local diplomats should therefore point towards their interlocutors always on the "relevance of the stability of Egypt." A spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the information sought by request neither confirm nor deny. The Foreign Ministry was available for comment not immediately available.

Israeli President Shimon Peres, meanwhile, has warned open for a possible takeover of a radical Islamist regime in Egypt. Peres said, according to the Israeli army station, not the rule of religious fanatics would be better than a lack of democracy under President Mubarak. "We had and still have great respect for President Mubarak," Peres said in his first public statement on the unrest.

"We're not saying that all he has done is right, but he has done one thing for which we are grateful to him: He has kept the peace in the Middle East," the President said. For Israel, Egypt is the most important Arab partners - Jerusalem fears the consequences of the revolt and of a possible departure of President Mubarak Hunsi to power of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood.

With reaction to the wave of violence in Egyptian towns, Israel has held back so far. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on his ministers to refrain from public statements. He said Sunday that Israel is it keen to keep the peace with Egypt. Egypt had signed with Israel a peace treaty in 1979 and was the first Arab country in general, which took such a step.

The peace with Egypt is the Israelis still regarded as one of its biggest foreign policy successes. With it neutralized the Israeli government's largest and most dangerous enemy and rest assured of its long southern border. Israel freed so the military capacity to keep the occupied West Bank and to conduct its wars.

The Camp David agreement is therefore a key cornerstone of Israeli security policy in the region. Should it be terminated, the Israeli army would have to completely restructure the Israeli security policy set up from scratch. Israel calls on the West - in fact, the statements of the German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle the situation in Egypt are careful.

Westerwelle called President Mubarak once again for a dialogue with the opposition and the demonstrators. A cut in German development aid to Egypt from the foreign minister concluded, because such a move would mainly affect the poor. Germany continues to aspire to a close economic relationship with Egypt.

In view of the call for free elections in Egypt, Westerwelle expressed concern that Islamic forces could gain influence. The minister warned of fundamentalist free-riders. "This is something we must view with concern," he said. At the same time pointed Westerwelle back the accusation of double standards in Germany's relations with Egypt.

Although a part of this criticism justified the West generally, Westerwelle said on Monday the Germany radio. "But I can say for the federal government that we in the issue of human rights, civil rights have not looked away." In spite of all the partnership and the constructive role of Egypt in the Middle East peace process the government had urged the government in Cairo is always the respect of basic human rights such as demonstration and press freedom.

The EU foreign ministers would discuss during their meeting in Brussels on Monday also discussed the situation in Egypt. The German-Israeli government consultations are about the crisis in Egypt. Chancellor Merkel will be accompanied on her visit to Jerusalem by several ministers. Religion is not gone, but in the private sphere.

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