In interview marking 33 years since Israel returned Sinai Peninsul
a to Egypt, ousted president says Israel tried to evade commitments it made during peace deal signed with Anwar Sadat.
Ousted president of Egypt, Husni Mubarak, said Sunday in a televised phone interview that Israel tried to deceive Egypt a month before returning the Sinai Peninsula as part of the historic peace deal signed between the two former foes.
On Saturday, Egypt celebrated the 33rd year since Israel returned the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt on April, 25 1982.
Now that Mubarak has been acquitted of the most serious charge of which he was accused – the killing of protesters on January 25, 2011 – he felt comfortable enough to conduct an interview with his favorite broadcaster Ahmed Moussa on the Sada El-Balad TV station.
During the phone interview, which Mubarak conducted from his room at a military hospital in Cairo, where he has been staying for the past few years because of his health condition, the former president spoke out against Israel and claimed that it tried to evade commitments it made during the peace deal it signed with Anwar Sadat.
He praised current President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, even though he did say that Egypt\’s national security was unstable. Despite this, he completely backed al-Sisi, saying: "Egypt is in the hands of a smart national leadership. The Egyptian nation needs to stand behind it because there is no president that can operate on his own."