Praising Mubarak for standing by Israel during his three-decade long rule, labor lawmaker Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said on Thursday that Mubarak’s possible collapse would be painful for Israel.
Ben-Eliezer, who has held several ministerial posts, including Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor, Minister of Defense and Deputy Prime Minister, also criticized Washington’s policy toward Egypt, saying by withdrawing its support from Mubarak’s regime, the US has pushed the Middle East toward a catastrophe.
The Israeli lawmaker also predicted that if elections are held in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s Islamist opposition party, would win.
Tel Aviv is anxiously monitoring political developments in its powerful southern neighbor Egypt. Israeli officials have repeatedly warned that the implications of a regime change in Egypt, the country’s only ally in the Arab world, would be enormous in Israel.
Mubarak..the “lackey of the Zionist regime of Israel”
– Ben-Eliezer
“Peace with Israel under its present terms can only be enforced by a dictator like Mubarak. Democracy will give the people a voice and their voice clearly demands that the peace accord be broken,” Ray Hanania, an Israeli journalist, wrote in the Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.
The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Friday that the recent developments in North Africa are the result of the “Islamic awakening, which followed the great [Islamic] Revolution of the Iranian nation.”
The Leader also described Mubarak as the “lackey of the Zionist regime [of Israel].”
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