Egypt: Playing Soccer Against Israel is Unacceptable

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Egyptian soccer officials have rejected an Israeli proposal to hold a friendly soccer match between the two countries in Israel.

“The main objective behind the request is to break the barriers between the two countries and to spread a peaceful atmosphere,” the Israeli Football Association said when announcing its invitation, Haaretz reported.

Azmi Megahed, media spokesman for the Egyptian Football Association, said, “We will not agree to any matches with the Israel national team or any Israeli clubs….The idea of facing Israel is unacceptable to us because the Egyptian people would never agree to it.”

Egypt’s rejection of the soccer match comes after Egyptian Member of Parliament Tawfik Okasha was removed from office on Wednesday in the aftermath of his hosting of Israeli Ambassador to Egypt Haim Koren for dinner at his home.

Despite those two incidents, Israel-Egypt relations have warmed in recent years under Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, with the two countries quietly cooperating on fighting both Islamic State-affiliated terrorism in the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza-ruling Hamas terror group. Egypt’s new ambassador to Israel, Hazem Khairat, recently presented his diplomatic credentials to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, officially becoming Egypt’s first envoy to Israel since 2012.

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{Matzav.com}


4 COMMENTS

  1. You know what’s really sad? Israel’s mid-East “Friends” think and act as warmly towards Jews as the KKK acts towards Blacks. Israel’s enemies? Same goal and mindset as the Nazis, ym”s.

  2. and isreal is THE racist apartide state!!!?? i think its high time the liberals in isreal stop this nonsense of kumbaya because the arabs will never ever like us. at least not publicly

  3. Why oh why is there a kingdom of Egypt. Weren’t they all drowned in the sea in chodesh Nissan thousands of years ago?
    I guess they forgot what HASHEM Did to their ancestors.
    It’s time they refreshed their memories with the help of the One Above.
    Soon Soon,very Soon.

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