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<div>A senior Israeli politician has strongly defended out-of-favor   Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, describing a revolution in Israel’s   southern neighbor as a loss for Tel Aviv.</div>
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<p><strong>Praising Mubarak for  standing by Israel during his three-decade long rule, labor lawmaker  <a class="zem_slink" title="Binyamin Ben-Eliezer" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binyamin_Ben-Eliezer">Binyamin Ben-Eliezer</a> said on Thursday that Mubarak’s possible collapse  would be painful for Israel. </strong></p>
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<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binyamin_Ben-Eliezer">Ben-Eliezer</a>,  who has held several  ministerial posts, including Minister of  Industry, Trade and Labor,  Minister of Defense and Deputy Prime  Minister, also criticized  Washington’s policy toward Egypt, saying by  withdrawing its support from  Mubarak’s regime, the US has pushed the  Middle East toward a  catastrophe.</p>
<p>The Israeli lawmaker also predicted that if  elections are held in  Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s Islamist  opposition party, would  win.</p>
<p>Tel Aviv is anxiously monitoring  political developments in its  powerful southern neighbor Egypt. Israeli  officials have repeatedly  warned that the implications of a regime  change in Egypt, the country’s  only ally in the Arab world, would be  enormous in Israel.</p>
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<h4>Mubarak..the <strong>“lackey of the Zionist regime of Israel”</strong></h4>
<p style="text-align:center;">&#8211; Ben-Eliezer<strong><br />
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<div>Egypt was the first Arab country to sign a  peace treaty with  Israel in 1979 following days of secret negotiations  at Camp David, US.  Many Egyptians, however, believe that the treaty did  not end Israeli  occupation and therefore are opposed to it.Tel  Aviv fears that the ongoing popular uprising against the Egyptian  president could jeopardize its 31-year-old <a class="zem_slink" title="Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt%E2%80%93Israel_Peace_Treaty">peace treaty with Egypt</a>.</p>
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<div><strong>“Peace  with Israel under its present terms can only be enforced  by a dictator  like Mubarak. Democracy will give the people a voice and  their voice  clearly demands that the peace accord be broken,” Ray  Hanania, an  Israeli journalist, wrote in the <em>Jerusalem Post</em> on Wednesday. </strong></div>
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<div><span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>Egypt is one of the main suppliers of Israel’s natural gas. </strong></span>Israel  also shares a long border with Egypt and both have a frontier with the  <a class="zem_slink" title="Gaza Strip" rel="geolocation" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=31.4166666667,34.3333333333&amp;spn=0.3,0.3&amp;q=31.4166666667,34.3333333333%20%28Gaza%20Strip%29&amp;t=h" rel="nofollow">Gaza Strip</a>. <strong>For years, with the help of Cairo, Israel has managed to  impose a crippling blockade on the Palestinian territory.</strong> Tel Aviv fears  that a regime change in Egypt would spell the end of the Gaza siege.</p>
<p>The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei  said  on Friday that the recent developments in North Africa are the  result  of the “Islamic awakening, which followed the great [Islamic]  Revolution  of the Iranian nation.”</p>
<p>The Leader also described Mubarak as the <strong>“lackey of the Zionist regime [of Israel].”</strong></p>
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<div>HM/HGH/MMNSource: <a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/163570.html">Press TV</a></div>
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