Egypt’s Morsi to decline Israel visit invitation

[Mosby]

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- A day after Israel's foreign minister called on Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to visit Israel, a Muslim Brotherhood official called such a visit impossible.

"There is no possibility for Morsi to visit the Zionist entity," Gamal Heshmat of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party told an Egyptian online news magazine, Ynet reported.

"President Morsi's patriotism will not allow him to do so," Heshmat said, saying that the presidential palace will turn down the invitation.

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/08/29/3105411/egypts-morsi-to-decline-israel-visit-invitation

[COLGATE4]

1. Well, this is going swimmingly for Mid-East peace,

don't you think???

[aranthus]

5. Patience.

There will be peace after the next war.

[sabbat hunter]

2. zionist entity?

patriotism won't allow him to do so?

WTF?!?!

[oberliner]

3. Yeah that is something

Can't even bring himself to say Israel.

[King_David]

4. "Zionist entity"?

Sounds like Egypt is becoming more and more like the Islamic "Republic" of Iran, every day.

[Alamuti Lotus]

6. Israel really, really misses Mubarak

poor babies.

[henank]

8. I think Egyptians will really miss Mubarak

Your snide comment contributes nothing to the discussion. It just displays your bias, that what is bad for Israel is automatically good for the Arabs. It doesn't work that way in the real world. Do you really think Morsi is better for the Egyptians than Mubarak was? How's it working out so far?

In any event, perhaps Israel does miss Mubarak. Is that a bad thing? At least Mubarak didn't talk about "the Zionist entity". Refusing to name your peace partner - and Israel is technically an ally of Egypt since there is a peace treaty between the two countries - is NOT a good sign of progress to come.

[leftlibdem420]

12. He's saying what every Egyptian thinks.

Israel supported Mubarak for 30 years. Mubarak enriched himself while the average Egyptian spent decades suffering under a government that condemned him to poverty and ignorance.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

14. Most Egyptians I knew when living there support Mubarack

Poverty and particularly ignorance are the hallmarks of the so called islamic republics

[oberliner]

10. What a comment!

Clearly a true supporter of peace in the region.

[Alamuti Lotus]

11. a dark euphemistic veil I have never really employed..

Not in a while, anyway. I don't believe I have ever heard a more deceptive term thrown around quite so much as that.

[azurnoir]

7. and it was an invite from Avigdor himself too

A senior official in the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party came out against Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Wednesday describing his invitation of President Mohammed Morsi to Israel as "diplomatic rebelliousness." He stressed that "there is no possibility for Morsi to visit the Zionist entity."

In an article published by Egyptian online magazine al-Wafd, Gamal Heshmat said that "accepting Israel's invitation would be unimaginable."

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4274504,00.html

and Morsi didn't mention Israel by name here either

The Egyptian leader used his first interview with the Western press since coming to power in June as a platform to rebut criticism that he intends to lead a reactionary regime inimical to both the United States and Israel.

With Israel among those most suspicious of his intentions, not least because of his longtime involvement in the Muslim Brotherhood, Mr Morsi seemed particularly eager to reassure Egypt’s western neighbour — even if he did not mention the Jewish state by name.

The president promised that a military campaign he started to root out Islamist militants in the Sinai Peninsula dividing the two countries would be conducted in compliance with the Israel-Egypt peace treaty of 1979.

“Egypt is practising its very normal role on its soil and does not threaten anyone and there should not be any kind of international or regional concerns at all from the presence of Egyptian security forces,” Mr Morsi told the Reuters news agency.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/9504601/Mohammed-Morsi-vows-to-respect-Egypt-Israel-peace-treaty.html

and I'm sure none of this has a whit to do with Morsi being at the NAM conference in Tehran right now, nope not a thing

[oberliner]

9. Morsi doesn't mention Israel by name either

Thanks for adding that info. Does not bode well for future relations between the two countries.

[mooncer]

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