Tribute of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Hosni Mubarak

Text by: Michel Paul

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was one of the first political leaders to pay tribute to Hosni Mubarak. A great friend and a man of peace, he says. And this is an opportunity for the media in Israel to delve back into relations between the Israelis and the Egyptians.

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From our correspondent in Jerusalem,

A president who led his people to peace with Israel. It is the homage that Benjamin Netanyahu paid to President Hosni Mubarak, whom he describes as a personal friend. " I met him several times," continues the Israeli Prime Minister on his Twitter account. I was impressed by his commitment to peace, and we will continue on this path. "

The media in Israel take stock of the ambivalent relationship between the rais and Israel. They note that Hosni Mubarak had made a point of not visiting Israel. An engagement broken only during the funeral of Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin in Jerusalem in 1995.

Peace with Israel was essential for Mubarak, said Tzvi Mazel, former Israeli ambassador to Cairo. For another diplomat, the general who led his country's aviation against Israel during the Kippur offensive in 1973 worked to undo what his predecessor to the Egyptian presidency had achieved. Mubarak was the opposite of Anwar Sadat. Both worked for peace, but for different reasons.

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