Arab journalist blasts Egyptian FM for failing to censure Livni Gaza threats
Source: Haaretz, 27-12-2008
By Barak Ravid
A prominent Arab journalist launched a blistering attack on Saturday against Egypt's foreign minister for the perceived evenhandedness of Cairo's policy towards "Israel" and the Palestinians, according to "Israel" Radio.
In an editorial penned for the London-based pan-Arab daily Al-Quds al-Arabi, the paper's editor in chief, Abd al-Bari Atwan, takes Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit to task for failing to voice displeasure with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's threats against Hamas during Livni's meetings with senior officials in the Egyptian capital this week.
Rejecting a call for restraint by Hosni Mubarak, Livni on Thursday told the Egyptian President that "Israel" will act to halt "unbearable" rocket attacks by Gaza militants.
"We cannot tolerate a situation in which Hamas continues to target "Israel", "Israel's" citizens (settlers), and this situation is going to be changed," Livni told the Egyptian leader.
Atwan wrote that Aboul Gheit's conduct - and his demand that both "Israel" and Hamas act with
restraint and refrain from steps that would inflame tensions - did not distinguish him from that of a foreign minister of Sweden or Costa Rica, according to "Israel" Radio. The editor also doubted whether Egypt would allow a Hamas official to make similar threats towards "Israel".
By Barak Ravid
A prominent Arab journalist launched a blistering attack on Saturday against Egypt's foreign minister for the perceived evenhandedness of Cairo's policy towards "Israel" and the Palestinians, according to "Israel" Radio.
In an editorial penned for the London-based pan-Arab daily Al-Quds al-Arabi, the paper's editor in chief, Abd al-Bari Atwan, takes Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit to task for failing to voice displeasure with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's threats against Hamas during Livni's meetings with senior officials in the Egyptian capital this week.
Rejecting a call for restraint by Hosni Mubarak, Livni on Thursday told the Egyptian President that "Israel" will act to halt "unbearable" rocket attacks by Gaza militants.
"We cannot tolerate a situation in which Hamas continues to target "Israel", "Israel's" citizens (settlers), and this situation is going to be changed," Livni told the Egyptian leader.
Atwan wrote that Aboul Gheit's conduct - and his demand that both "Israel" and Hamas act with
restraint and refrain from steps that would inflame tensions - did not distinguish him from that of a foreign minister of Sweden or Costa Rica, according to "Israel" Radio. The editor also doubted whether Egypt would allow a Hamas official to make similar threats towards "Israel".
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