Cairo – A participant in a meeting between Egypt’s Islamist president and a large U.S. trade delegation says the Egyptian leader has reaffirmed pledges that he will respect his country’s landmark peace treaty with Israel.
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Mohammed Morsi also said Sunday during the hour-long meeting that he has instructed his Cabinet to fight corruption and reduce red tape to create a better environment for business and investment.
Since his election, Morsi has offered repeated assurances he would respect the 1979 treaty, apparently to remove any doubt in the Jewish state of his commitment to the historic accord. Morsi hails from the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group that has a decades-old enmity with Israel.
The participant spoke on condition of anonymity because Morsi’s spokesman has not yet briefed the media on the meeting.
In fact, Morsi and his government are cooperating with EY, in rooting out and killing terrorists in the Northern Sinai.
Israel and Egypt have common interests here.
Amazing. We can only say:
“Leyv Milachim V’sorim b’yad Hashem”.
i can’t believe any of you are still so naieve as to believe anything an arab says to a western group,especially one promising money.wake up!
If he is working with Israel, why are there no lulavim coming from El Arish? Not that we need them but I am curious?
To #6 -Butterfly- I don’t know about the supply situation this year, but I distinctly remember that about 5-6 years ago, when there was a shortage of Lulavs, law enforcement in both EY and Egypt found out that an Egyptian and an Israeli conspired to drive up the price of Lulavs, by deliberately manipulating the supply. Both were caught and dealt with. I guess that when it comes to business, politics is cast aside.