Israel 'fears' post-Mubarak era

Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, has said that he was following events in Egypt with "vigilance and worry".

At a news conference alongside Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, on Monday in Jerusalem, Netanyahu said Egypt could wind up with a radical Islamic regime as in Iran.

He hoped Israel's three-decade-old peace treaty with Egypt would survive any changes that were taking place.


Al Jazeera's Nisreen El-Shamayel reports on the Israeli-Egyptian relation

Earlier, an Israeli newspaper had reported that Israel has called on the United States and Europe to curb their criticism of President Hosni Mubarak "in a bid to preserve stability in Egypt" and the wider Middle East.

The Israeli daily Haaretz reported that the foreign ministry, in an urgent special cable, instructed its ambassadors to key countries, to "stress ... the importance of Egypt's stability".

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/01/201113177145613.html

Alhumdulillah Egypt has opened the rafah crossing. So some relief for the Muslims in Gaza.