ALJAZEERA: Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, has said that he was following events in Egypt with “vigilance and worry”.
At a news conference alongside Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, on Monday in Jerusalem, Netanyahu said Egypt could wind up with a radical Islamic regime as in Iran.
He hoped Israel’s three-decade-old peace treaty with Egypt would survive any changes that were taking place.
Earlier, an Israeli newspaper had reported that Israel has called on the United States and Europe to curb their criticism of President Hosni Mubarak “in a bid to preserve stability in Egypt” and the wider Middle East… (more)
