Following are excerpts from an interview with Judge Mahmoud Al-Khodheiri, former deputy head of Egyptian Court of Appeals, which aired on Al-Jazeera Network on May 13, 2011:
Mahmoud Al-Khodheiri: We should stop exporting natural gas to Israel. This gas is our blood. It is the future livelihood of our children. Today, we are trying to gain the world's sympathy, in order to receive $10 million worth of aid, yet we lose $13 million a day by exporting gas to Israel.
For what?! I consider the exportation of gas to Israel an act of treason, and we should stop it. I salute the people who bombed the gas pipe, because this is my blood that is being transferred to my enemy.
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