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"Understand that it is important to maintain cooperation for Egypt's stability": Mubarak's Complex Relationship to Israel | Israel Today

2020-02-25T13:30:35.081Z


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Former President who passed away at 91, has an ongoing dialogue with Israel, but made sure not to show too much "warmth" so as not to stay away from the Arab world • Former ambassador to Cairo Yitzhak Lebanon: "Sadat wanted to make a connection between the peoples and Mubarak withdrew from it" "Peace was important to him"

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who passed away today (Tuesday), maintained his peace treaty with Israel during his long reigns, which was not at all clear when he came to power after assassinating President Anwar Sadat. However, he made sure to maintain "cold relations" and visited Israel only once, during the funeral of the late Isaac Rabin.

Mubarak wins civilian killings // Photo: Reuters

Former Israeli ambassador to Egypt Yitzhak Lebanon noted that Mubarak had maintained with Israel peace treaty but no civil content. "Mubarak withdrew from Sadat's intention in the peace treaty with Israel. Sadat wanted to make a connection between the peoples and Mubarak withdrew from it. He realized very quickly that in order to become accepted again in the Arab world he had to pay in Israeli currency. Therefore, he maintained warm military and security ties, and was in contact with all. The prime ministers in the country, but practically frozen all contact with Israel in other areas.

In this way, he could return to the Arab world and still not upset the US and Israel. In that regard, he can review his three decades of rule and see consistency and stability. After the assassination of Sadat he greatly feared the collapse of Egypt and therefore frozen the situation he kept in contact with Israel And with the US preserved the framework while keeping in touch with the military and all the ruling elites in Egypt.



Later, as he grew stronger, he increasingly entered the realm of Israeli-Palestinian relations with his own goals and objectives. He actually had two areas of interest to him. To reach a kind of solution between Israel and the Palestinians and to reach a solution to the deep crisis in neighboring Sudan. In other areas he delegated powers to his ministers and sons and was not so interested in it. "

With regard to personal connection, Lebanon said: "I ate at Mubarak several times and got to know him quite well. I was at his dinners with regional leaders and world leaders. He was obviously a very strong man to control but he was quite clearly cut off from his people."

"The agreement was not signed instead of Sadat"



Former Israeli Ambassador to Egypt Zvi Mazal said: "At meetings with Mubarak, it was clear that peace with Israel was important to him, but it was also clear that he was in Sadat's place. There was no peace with Israel. Mubarak was an officer and fought in Israel during the Yom Kippur War, At the same time, he continued Sadat and maintained the peace agreement, which was clear in his meetings with him.



"That is why he cooled the peace and did not do much to warm it, but vice versa. However, it was clear that he wanted this peace. Saddat had to be a revolutionary, a visionary who changed Egypt. Mubarak was the man who kept the frames. In our meetings, peace was important to him and his daughter, but he would not take such a move on his own. In this respect, relations between the states did not rise but did not recede, and when talking about the Arab world and the need for an Arab leader to go between the drops is quite a bit. There was more to do if he wanted to. "

Ruth Wasserman Landa, former deputy Israeli ambassador to Egypt, said that the concept of "love" or "warm relationship" between Israel and Egypt would not properly define Mubarak's relationship with Israel which was a net interest. "What stood out for Mubarak throughout the decades of his reign was his endless activity to maintain Egypt's stability. This is his basis for liaising with Israel, he realized that this stability depended in part on cooperation with Israel and he did so net of Egyptian interest. With piety over the security relationship with Israel, he maintained with piety that there would be no normalization with Israel, which characterized his entire years as president.

Benjamin Netanyahu eulogizes Mubarak // Photo: PM

"Mubarak knew his street would not accept and in any way warm relations with Israel and as soon as his public was normalized against him. He knew that every demonstration against normalization becomes within 20 against the government and so he maintained contact with us, but not too well. He knew the importance of security cooperation with Israel and the United States and greatly enjoyed what it gave Egypt as a country. In the same way, he knew how important a Chinese issue was to Israel and the United States, and he relied on this help because the Egyptian government always suspected the Bedouin loyalty, 'Backyard'. That is why peace with Israel has greatly helped him in this area as well. "

Source: israelhayom

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