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Following are excerpts from an interview with recently resigned Egyptian deputy PM Dr. Yahya Al-Gamal, which aired on ON TV on August 21, 2011.
Yahya Al-Gamal: The issue of Mubarak's trial is undoubtedly a very important one. Some people call it "the trial of the century," which is true. Mubarak was a tyrant, who humiliated the people, and our Lord wanted to give him a taste of his own medicine.
I am one of the people who felt no sympathy toward him when he was placed on trial. None whatsoever. When I saw him lying in the bed, I realized that this was a charade, and that he was trying to arouse sympathy. But he achieved the opposite – people realized that it was a stupid charade.
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In Islam, there is a lot of tolerance, and Christianity is all tolerance. Of course, I said Islam and Christianity, and I stopped there... And I mean what I say.
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What Israel wants is for Egypt to be broken, and for Egypt not to be strong. Israel shattered Iraq, through the Americans, for the sake of its own interests. Israel ripped Sudan in two, and is meddling with the Nile Basin, for the sake of its own interests and against the interests of Egypt.
Israel knows that the one thing that can shatter Egypt is Muslim-Copt strife, and it is working on that. All the Israeli spies were involved in activities like this.
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