MIDDLE EAST UPDATE - EGYPT SEEKS TIES WITH IRAN
Dear Conservatives,
After meeting with top Iranian diplomats this week, Egypt's Foreign Minister, Nabil Elaraby said that Egypt will re-establish full diplomatic ties with Iran. Those ties were broken more than 30 years ago following the Islamic revolution that overthrew the Shah of Iran and installed the violently anti-Israel and anti-American government in Teheran.
The continuing radical nature of Iran's mullahs apparently poses no problem to Egypt's new government. "The Egyptian and Iranian people deserve to have mutual relations reflecting their history and civilization," Elaraby said. The meeting and mutual statements of cooperation and common interests followed the decision by Egypt to allow two Iranian warships to pass through the Suez Canal last month. That was also a first since the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979. The Iranian ships included a massive supply ship which docked in Syria for a few days before returning to Iran.
Elaraby said Egypt's goal in the talks was to "achieve common interests." Every move the new governing powers have made has been anti-Israel and pro-Islamist. Christians and other minority groups are being persecuted. The three-decades-old peace treaty between Egypt and Israel is under attack. Now the news that Egypt is cozying up to the terrorists of Teheran signals a further threat to the Jewish state.
Right now Israel needs our help more than ever before. Terrorist attacks are increasing--it seems like almost every day there is another story of Hamas or Hezbollah launching an assault against innocent Jewish men, women and children. We must rise up in the spirit of one of my great heroes, Corrie ten Boom and stand for the Jewish people. The ten Boom family risked--and most of them gave--their lives to deliver hundreds of Jews from the Holocaust. Today we must do what we can to rescue those on the brink of destruction.
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