Mubarak: Israeli military operations is collective punishment of Palestinians, Lebanese
Lebanon-Egypt, Politics, 7/29/2006

Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak has stressed the need for accelerating international diplomatic moves for halting raging war in Lebanon. The President said current military operations are a collective punishment of the Lebanese and Palestinians.

In an interview with TIME magazine, President said he will not take part in pressurizing Syria, asserting that any attempt to isolate Syria is useless.

In written responses to questions from TIME, Mubarak said the emergency meeting with Arab envoys hosted by Secretary of State Condeleezza Rice in Rome Wednesday failed to halt the bloodshed. While not directly criticizing the White House's refusal to call for an immediate cessation of Israel's attacks on Lebanon, he complained that the crisis "could have been contained at its early stage" and demanded that the international community issue "a serious and urgent demarche" (diplomatic protest) to achieve peace and security.

Israel's military campaign in Lebanon, Mubarak said, "went way too far" and has "triggered an increasing rage within the Arabs, Moslems and worldwide." With the broader Middle East peace process at a stalemate, he expressed pessimism about resolving the crisis. "There is no light at the end of the tunnel," he said.

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