Mubarak: Mediation Effort “Sabotaged”
Charles Johnson
Wed Jul 12, 2006 at 9:44 am PDT • Views: 244
Egyptian despot Hosni Mubarak says he was close to arranging the release of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, but the mediation effort was sabotaged.
And for once, I don’t think he’s hinting that the all-powerful Zionist World Conspiracy is responsible. (This is almost a flying pig moment.)
CAIRO (AFP) - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has said that his mediation efforts for the release of an Israeli soldier captured by Gaza militants were sabotaged by an unnamed party.
“I had reached an honourable solution to the crisis of the captured soldier and had obtained from Israel that it free a large number of Palestinian detainees,” Mubarak told the state-owned Al-Ahram daily. He said he had reached the breakthrough in the negotiations following contacts with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas and Hamas political supremo Khaled Meshaal. …
“But Hamas was submitted to pressure and other parties, whom I will not identify, intervened in the contacts engaged by Egypt, raising new hurdles for an agreement which was imminent,” Mubarak said.
Some Israeli newspapers have accused Meshaal’s Syrian and Iranian backers of obstructing a deal.
And although AFP doesn’t make the connection, I suspect Mubarak is also referring to the Muslim Brotherhood, who congratulated Hizballah today.
Frank says: