{"id":7008,"date":"2018-01-07T21:03:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T21:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=7008"},"modified":"2018-01-07T21:03:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T21:03:51","slug":"egypt-denies-report-that-it-accepts-trumps-jerusalem-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=7008","title":{"rendered":"Egypt denies report that it accepts Trump\u2019s Jerusalem recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<header id=\"header\" class=\"header\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"header-middle\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Source: www.timesofisrael.com<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"main\">\n<div class=\"wrap-article\">\n<article id=\"article_1766089\" class=\"article sticky-sidebar-parent news israel-and-the-region\" data-next_article_id=\"1766076\" data-article_id=\"1766089\" data-article_url_http=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/egypt-denies-report-that-it-accepts-trumps-jerusalem-recognition\/\" data-article_url=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/egypt-denies-report-that-it-accepts-trumps-jerusalem-recognition\/\" data-article_title_full=\"Egypt denies report that it accepts Trump\u2019s Jerusalem recognition | The Times of Israel\" data-article_title=\"Egypt denies report that it accepts Trump\u2019s Jerusalem recognition\" data-article_description=\"Cairo lambastes NY Times article that said intelligence officer briefed TV presenters on the issue, suggesting the officer does not even exist \" data-image_url=\"https:\/\/static.timesofisrael.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/04\/trump-sisi1.jpg\" data-image_width=\"880\" data-image_height=\"495\">\n<div class=\"article-content-container sticky-sidebar-relative\">\n<div class=\"article-wrap\">\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"the-content\">\nEgypt\u2019s government on Sunday denied and harshly criticized a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/06\/world\/middleeast\/egypt-jerusalem-talk-shows.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=first-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> New York Times report<\/a> that said\u00a0Cairo has quietly sought to convince the Egyptian public to accept the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital, despite publicly\u00a0opposing it.<br \/>\nThe newspaper said in a report published Saturday that it obtained audio recordings in which an Egyptian intelligence officer, speaking with influential talk show hosts, asked them to downplay the significance of US President Donald Trump\u2019s decision.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Times\u2019 report contains allegations regarding Egypt\u2019s position on the Jerusalem issue mentioned in the so-called \u2018audio recordings.\u2019 It is inappropriate for The New York Times, a reputable newspaper, to publish such allegations,\u201d the\u00a0Egyptian government\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sis.gov.eg\/Story\/123102?lang=en-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in a statement.<\/a><br \/>\n\u201cEgypt\u2019s positions on international issues are not derived from alleged leaks from an anonymous source. Rather, Egypt\u2019s positions are conveyed by the President, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and in official statements as well,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fi_inl_pos\">The statement pointed out that Egypt sponsored a UN resolution opposing the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital, despite threats by Washington to reduce aid.<\/p>\n<p>In the report, an officer\u00a0identified as Cpt. Ashraf al-Kholi, is reported to have briefed TV hosts, saying\u00a0 that widespread unrest over Washington\u2019s move would \u201cnot serve Egypt\u2019s national security interests,\u201d as it would \u201crevive the Islamists and Hamas. Hamas would be reborn once more.\u201d<br \/>\nThe statement noted that two of the talk show hosts mentioned in the report no longer have shows and never presented any news regarding the Jerusalem decision. The statement also said that news presenter Azmi Megahed, the key on-the-record interview for the Times report, denied remarks attributed to him by the American paper.<br \/>\nThe government statement also said there is no evidence that al-Kholi is actually a member of the security services.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Times\u2019 report claims that Captain Ashraf al-Kholi is an officer with the Egyptian General Intelligence without presenting its readers with the slightest evidence as to the truth of this piece of information or that a person by this name exists in the first place,\u201d the statement said.<br \/>\nIn the Times report, al-Kholi allegedly told the news hosts, \u201cHow is Jerusalem different from Ramallah, really?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThis thing will become a reality. Palestinians can\u2019t resist and we don\u2019t want to go to war. We have enough on our plate as you know,\u201d al-Kholi allegedly said regarding the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1543579\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><\/div>\n<p>The Times reported that Egyptian intelligence regularly briefs TV hosts on messages leaders want them to communicate to the public, and the recordings showed the officer\u2019s conversation partners were all very willing to accommodate the official viewpoint.<br \/>\nIn response to Trump\u2019s move, Egypt publicly said the decision was\u00a0a violation of international resolutions on the city\u2019s status. It also\u00a0reflected concern regarding the impact of the US move on the stability of the region and regarding its \u201cextremely negative\u201d impact on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fi_inl_pos\">Israeli leaders have long said Jerusalem has been quietly cultivating its ties with Arab states, in the face of commons threats posed by Iran and Islamist extremism.<\/p>\n<p>In his December 6 address from the White House,\u00a0Trump\u00a0defied worldwide warnings and insisted that after repeated failures to achieve peace, a new approach was long overdue, describing his decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital as merely based on reality.<br \/>\nBitterly rejected by the Palestinian Authority, which is now boycotting the Trump administration, the move was hailed by Netanyahu and by leaders across much of the Israeli political spectrum.<br \/>\nTrump\u00a0stressed that he was not specifying the boundaries of Israeli sovereignty in the city, and called for no change in the status quo at the city\u2019s holy sites.<br \/>\nAn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/us-said-to-freeze-125-million-aid-for-un-palestinian-refugee-agency\/\">Israeli report<\/a>\u00a0Friday said the US, furious over the Palestinians\u2019 reaction to Trump\u2019s Jerusalem recognition, has frozen $125 million in aid to the UN\u2019s Palestinian refugee agency.<br \/>\nFor its part, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/us-denies-freezing-millions-in-aid-to-palestinian-refugee-agency\/\">the US denied<\/a> the Channel 10 report, saying a decision on UNWRA funding was still \u201cunder review.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"FIOnDemandWrapper_fiInstance_99953_0_6432201\" class=\"FIOnDemandWrapper\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.timesofisrael.com Egypt\u2019s government on Sunday denied and harshly criticized a New York Times report that said\u00a0Cairo has quietly sought to convince the Egyptian public to accept the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital, despite publicly\u00a0opposing it. The newspaper said in a report published Saturday that it obtained audio recordings in which an Egyptian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}