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April 27, 2012

Why Israel Can't Risk a Rift with Egypt

Chemi Shalev, West of Eden

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Israel’s controversial Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has a long track record of diplomatic flare-ups with Egypt. He once threatened that Israel would bomb the Aswan Dam. On another occasion, he told the Knesset that then-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak should “go to hell.”

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