Egyptian Parliament: Israel Is Our Number One Enemy

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Egyptian Parliament: Israel Is Our Number One Enemy

Egypt votes to kick out the Israeli ambassador and end gas sales to Israel.

“Revolutionary Egypt will never be a friend, partner or ally of the Zionist entity, which we consider to be the number one enemy of Egypt and the Arab nation,” says a text approved by Egypt’s lower house of parliament on March 12. The text also calls for Israel’s ambassador to be expelled, gas exports to be stopped and for Egypt to establish its own nuclear program.

Parliament doesn’t have the power, yet, to enforce this declaration, so it is mostly symbolic. But it shows where Egypt’s new leaders want to take the country.

Egypt “will deal with that entity as an enemy, and the Egyptian government is hereby called upon to review all its relations and accords with that enemy,” says the motion.

The declaration was quickly supported by Iran. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said: “When people in independent countries take over the helm of affairs, they do not tolerate the crimes of the Zionist regime, and the move by the Egyptian parliament was a natural response,” according to the Tehran Times.

Radical Islamists are in the majority in both of Egypt’s houses of parliament. They control Egypt’s future. The army may retain a lot of power, but it knows which way the wind is blowing and knows it must ally with the Islamists or else be overthrown.

It won’t be long before official government policy states that Israel is Egypt’s number one enemy.