Amal Party: Egypt to cut relations with Israel after Elections

Secretary-General of the Egyptian Amal Party Majdi Hussein condemned the Zionist regime for its hostile efforts to thwart the Egyptian people's uprising and revolution, and stressed once parliamentary elections are held in the country, Cairo will cut its ties with Israel."Although the relations between Egypt and Israel have been undermined after the collapse of Mubarak's regime, we are still unsatisfied with these conditions and serious efforts will be made after the elections to cut relations with the Zionist enemy completely," Hussein told FNA on Monday. He said as it was shown in the Egyptian youths' raid on the Israeli embassy in September, which forced the Israeli ambassador to flee Cairo, the relations between Egypt and Israel are declining. Hussein also underlined the invalidity of the Camp David Accord between Tel Aviv and Cairo, and called for its revision. Egyptians, who demanded a cut of ties with Israel after the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, are now even more furious after they realized that the interim military rulers of the country used Israeli-made hi-tech weapons and riot gear, including tear gas canisters, against protestors in Tahrir Square in recent days. The issue was revealed by Deputy Head of the Egyptian Al-Wasat Party Osam Sultan in an interview with FNA on Monday. "The weapons and bullets have undoubtedly been imported from Israel which is considered as the enemy of the Egyptian nation," he said. He made the remarks referring to the recent bloody crackdown on Egyptian protesters in al-Tahrir Square in Cairo. Egypt's interim military rulers battled a reinvigorated protest movement calling for its ouster, as thousands of demonstrators forced troops to retreat from Tahrir Square. Many compared the breadth and intensity of the new battles for the square - the iconic heart of the Egyptian revolt and the Arab Spring - to the early days of the uprising against former president Hosni Mubarak, only this time the target of the protesters' ire was the ruling military council and its leader, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi.