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Egypt’s New Muslim Brotherhood Government Bans Jews From Holy Site…

(INN) — Egypt’s Foreign Ministry said Wednesday it had told Israel that it would not be “appropriate” for Israeli pilgrims to make an annual visit to the tomb of a 19th-century Jewish holy man in the Nile Delta.
Egypt notified Israel two months ago that it would be “impossible to hold the annual ceremony because of the political and security situation in the country,” the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said.
Wednesday’s announcement came as Muslim Brotherhood activists mobilized to block the pilgrimage route.
Ceremonies at the tomb of Rabbi Yaakov Abuchatzeira have triggered yearly political sparring in Egypt throughout most of the last decade.
An Islamist politician involved in organizing protests against the march meanwhile said that visiting the gravesite in the village of Daymouta, 180 kilometers (112 miles) north of Cairo would be a “suicide mission” for Israelis.
“Normalization (of relations) with Israel is forced on the people, and the visits too come against the will of the people and despite popular rejection,” said Gamal Heshmat of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Egypt’s daily Al-Ahram newspaper reported Tuesday that 31 parties and groups had joined this year’s campaign to block Israeli pilgrims from reaching the site.
1 comment:
Frankly, what do Israeli's expect? They keep Gaza as an open air prison, inflicting on it regular air-raids, their illegal settlers continue to steal land and water in the West Bank, and the IDF refuses to supply maps of where they used cluster munitions in Lebanon to NGO's demining the land.
Yet at the same time Israeli's complain that they are not welcome in Arab lands. This just illustrates the arrogance and willful blindness of Zionist lobby. If I have a bad neighbour who insists on stealing from me, and beating up & killing my children, do not expect to find him welcome in my house.
This has NOTHING to do with anti-Semitism, [the eternal tag that is used to label anyone who complains about Zionist crimes], but straighforward resistance to the continued aggression & lies of the Zionist regime
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