Date: 23 / 04 / 2009  Time:  10:27
Bethlehem – Ma’an –

Director of Egyptian Intelligence, General Omar Sulaiman, completed a round of talks with senior Israeli officials in Jerusalem on Wednesday, including the racist Zionist foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman.

Israeli radio described the meeting as “businesslike and friendly,” noting that it concluded with an invitation to Lieberman to visit Cairo.

Egyptian officials (particularly foreign minister Abul Ghait) had previously stated they would be unwilling to meet with the right-wing ultra-nationalist Lieberman, but the meeting was apparently requested by Sulaiman himself. Lieberman offended Egypt when he said that President Hosni Mubarak “can go to hell.”

According to reports official meetings with Israeli occupation terrorist government defense minister, Barak, and Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu were held in advance of meetings with the controversial Lieberman.

Barak discussed Israel’s security interests and the situation in Palestine with Sulaiman, reports said, while Barak told the intelligence chief that Israel has made a priority of maintaining good relations with Cairo.

Sulaiman invites Lieberman to visit Egypt

Thursday April 23, 2009 02:08 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

Israeli sources reported on Wednesday that Egypt’s Intelligence Chief, Omar Sulaiman, who is also in charge of prisoner-swap and ceasefire talks with Hamas, invited the racist Israeli foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, to Egypt.

On a visit Israel, Sulaiman met Israeli occupation government prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his defense minister, Ehud Barak.

Sulaiman met Lieberman for fifty minutes and invited him to visit Cairo. The invitation is important to Israel as Egypt initially said it would not deal with Lieberman for publically insulting the Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak.

 The meeting took place at the office of the Israeli Prime Minister to avoid the press and maintain discretion, Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported.

 After the meeting, the two officials issued a joint press release in which they stated that they agreed to work together as Israeli-Egyptian relations are very important for achieving peace in the region

Lieberman's office issued a statement describing the meeting as friendly, and that Lieberman expressed appreciation and respect for the Egyptian leadership and its role in the area.

Lieberman, who said last year that the Egyptian president “can go to hell”, said (this time) that he has personal respect for Hosni Mubarak and Omar Sulaiman.

Despite "tension", Suleiman meets Lieberman

Wednesday April 22, 2009 23:48 by IMEMC & Agencies

Egyptian Intelligence Chief, Omar Suleiman, met on Wednesday evening with the racist Israeli occupation government foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman in Jerusalem.

The meeting comes only one week after the Egyptian Foreign Minister, Ahmed Abul Ghait, said that Lieberman will not set foot o Egyptian land.

Egypt was “angered” by last year’s statement of Lieberman who said that Egypt’s President, Hosni Mubarak, “can go to hell”. Lieberman made his statement while slamming Mubarak for not visiting Israel.

Last week, Abul Ghait said that Egypt will work with the Israeli government but not through its Foreign Minister, Lieberman.

Abul Ghait also said that Lieberman will not be welcome in Egypt if he does not change his positions.

 But as Suleiman was visiting Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Israeli President, Shimon Peres, he “found time” to meet Lieberman.

 Lieberman said that he “appreciates Egypt as a strategic partner of Israel”, and added that the tension in Egyptian-Israeli relations “appears to be disappearing”.  

Meanwhile, Israeli government sources told the Israeli Ynet News that Sulaiman’s visit did not lead to any breakthrough in the talks for the release of the captured Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit.

Netanyahu said during his meeting with Suleiman that Israel and Egypt have shared interests, and that the two countries have “mutual respect, cooperation and friendship”.

 On his side, Sulaiman extended an invitation to Netanyahu to visit Egypt and hold a meeting with Mubarak.

 It is worth mentioning that during his statement made in the Knesset six months ago, Lieberman also threatened that Israel would bomb the Dam of Aswan in Egypt if the country deploys its army in the Sinai Peninsula.