Al-Anbaa: Egyptian- Israeli nuclear reactor

The Kuwaiti daily al-Anbaa has disclosed intensive Egyptian- Israeli diplomatic contacts concerning what was announced by the Israeli infrastructure minister Effie Eitam on installing a new nuclear reactor in Shabta area in the Negev desert, which is 10 kilometers from the borders with Egypt.

The paper said that the aim behind these contacts is to stop the building of this reactor due to its dangers to the region where an Arab village for the Bedouins of the Negev and the Palestinians of 1948 exists near the site for building this reactor.

Political sources told the paper that Israel cannot build this reactor because it is banned because of its rejection to sign the Non Proliferation Treaty NPT. A matter which will be escalated by the Egyptian diplomacy through legal channels and by various means in order to halt the building of this reactor.

The sources indicated that Israel's does not seek aim behind that is not to build a village for the Arab Bedouins in the area where the reactor will be built and to create tension with Egypt.