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Egyptian Media Retaliates With Threats After Israeli Minister's Sinai Comments
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Egyptian media figures have responded with severe threats against Israel following Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's warning that Israel would destroy Sinai if Egypt attacked. Prominent hosts and a parliamentarian invoked past wars and vowed retaliation, with one stating, "There will be no Tel Aviv, there will be no Ben-Gurion Airport, and there will be no Netanyahu." Smotrich's comments, made in a security context, were widely condemned in Egypt as extremist and ignorant of regional dynamics.
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- Egyptian media figures threatened to destroy Tel Aviv and Netanyahu after Israeli minister Smotrich warned of destroying Sinai.
- Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich stated Israel would destroy Sinai if Egypt attacked, referencing the 1979 peace treaty.
- Egyptian parliamentarian Mustafa Bakri called Smotrich an "extremist Zionist thug" and vowed Egypt could crush Israel's military.
- TV host Ahmed Moussa warned Israel would pay a "heavy price" and that "there will be no Israel" if it threatened Egypt.
- TV host Amr Adib stated "there will be no Tel Aviv, there will be no Ben-Gurion Airport, and there will be no Netanyahu" if Israel attacked.
- Professor Hamed Fares called Smotrich's comments "political adolescence" and a "red line" for Egypt.
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