Abu Al-Gheit: Lieberman not welcome in Cairo

Abu Al-Gheit:

Lieberman not welcome in Cairo

Thursday April 16, 2009 00:24 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

Egyptian Foreign Minister, Ahmad Abu Al-Gheit, stated Wednesday that his Israeli counterpart Avigdor Lieberman is not welcome in Egypt and will not be allowed to step into the country as long as he maintains his hostile positions towards the Egyptian President.

Egypt is still angry at Lieberman as he slammed the Egyptian president last year during a speech at the Knesset saying that “Mubarak can go to hell”.

Lieberman made this statement in criticism of the Egyptian president not visiting Israel.

Mubarak has only visited Israel during the funeral of Yitzhak Rabin in 1995.

After Israeli elections brought Lieberman to the post of Foreign Minister, Egyptian officials said they will be boycotting Lieberman.

Abu Al-Gheit added that this position does not mean that his country would not work directly with the Israeli government, Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported.

He described the new Israeli government, headed by Benjamin Netanyahu, as an extremist, hard-line government, as its leaders speak of war and hostilities instead of peace.

It is worth mentioning that Lieberman, head of Israel Our Home (Yisrael Beiteinu) Party used to be a member of the terrorist Kach movement which was outlawed by Israel itself in 1994.

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