Cairo – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi told a delegation of American Jewish leaders in Cairo on Tuesday that the Middle East would be a safer place if Israel and the Palestinians came to a peace agreement, Israel Radio reported.
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Sisi received a group of representatives of the American Jewish Committee, one of the most established Jewish advocacy organizations in the United States.
The Egyptian leader told the delegates that an Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty would “pull the rug out from under” the motivating causes of terrorism in the region and help dry up the pool of potential recruits.
Egyptian authorities on Monday arrested 13 members of the Muslim Brotherhood on suspicion of planting bombs around the Suez Canal to disrupt shipping, security sources said on Monday.
The waterway, the fastest shipping route between Europe and Asia, is a vital source of hard currency for Egypt, particularly since the 2011 uprising that toppled veteran autocrat Hosni Mubarak and scared off tourists and foreign investment.
Egypt’s government has escalated rhetoric against the Brotherhood, which it regards as a terrorist group, since the assassination of the country’s top prosecutor last week.
The security sources said the men formed a 13-member cell that included an employee at the Suez Canal Authority.
Prosecutors had ordered that they be detained for 15 days and said they had planted bombs in areas including sanitation and electricity facilities as well as on beaches, they said.
No one at the prosecutors’ office was immediately available to comment.
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If the animals had better trainers that would make the world a better place
Really like Sisi, unlike BIBI he rather have dead terrorists and “civilians” then his own dead soldiers, wish he was the so called Jewish states prime minister.
Hey Sisi:
Your country is also being targeted by these bloodthirsty barbaric savages. Perhaps you are aware that the Palestinians must be demilitarized in order to coexist with anyone. They cannot even tolerate each other. Sorry if this sounds not PC, but those are the conditions for peace. Not because I say so, but because everything else fails all the time. Even giving concessions to Palestinians is a fatal error.
What does the civil war in Syria which has caused 250,000 deaths and millions of refugees; the civil war in Iraq; the growth of ISIS; the coup in Yemen; terrorism in Tunisia and Sinai, have to do with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? If the Muslims can’t get along with each other, it is not the fault of the Jews.