{"id":52252,"date":"2012-03-18T08:03:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T06:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=52252"},"modified":"2023-04-05T14:22:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T11:22:41","slug":"egypt-house-votes-to-expel-israeli-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/03\/18\/egypt-house-votes-to-expel-israeli-envoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt house votes to expel Israeli envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Parliament&#8217;s lower chamber approves text which calls on the government &#8220;to revise all its relations&#8230; with that enemy&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8221;]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52253\" title=\"Egypt\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Egypt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Egypt.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Egypt-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong>Egypt&#8217;s lower house of parliament has\u00a0called for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador from Cairo and\u00a0halting of gas<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>exports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The vote was taken by a show of hands on a report approved\u00a0by the Arab affairs committee of the People&#8217;s Assembly calling for &#8220;the expulsion from Egypt of the Israeli ambassador and the recall of Egypt&#8217;s envoy from Tel Aviv&#8221;, the\u00a0official MENA news agency reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the\u00a0text, the MPs have also called for a halt of gas exports to Israel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Egypt will never be the friend, partner or ally of the Zionist entity which we consider as the first enemy of Egypt and the Arab nation,&#8221;<\/strong> read the text.<\/p>\n<p>It also called on the Egyptian government &#8220;to revise all its relations and agreements with that enemy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The motion is seen as largely symbolic as only the ruling military council can make such decisions. There was no immediate comment from Israel on the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt and Israel have been bound by a peace treaty since 1979 but ties have strained since\u00a0Hosni Mubarak was forced to step down as president last year by a popular uprising.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has responded cautiously to the Arab Spring and in January it congratulated Egypt on the inauguration of its first post-revolutionary parliament. It has repeatedly stressed the importance of preserving the\u00a0treaty between the two countries, and has called on Egypt&#8217;s new leadership to publicly state their commitment to the\u00a0accord.<\/p>\n<p>www.aljazeera.com,\u00a013 Mar 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament&#8217;s lower chamber approves text which calls on the government &#8220;to revise all its relations&#8230; with that enemy&#8221;. Egypt&#8217;s lower house of parliament has\u00a0called for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador from Cairo and\u00a0halting of gas exports. The vote was taken by a show of hands on a report approved\u00a0by the Arab affairs committee of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":52253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[393,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-egypt","category-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}