Israeli Foreign Ministry Director-General Dore Gold’s visit to Cairo on Sunday reflects the strength of Egyptian-Israeli relations and represents another step forward towards further strengthening the two sides’ mutual political relations, local media reported.
Israeli newspaper Maariv quoted Gold as saying that Egypt and Israel are “speaking the same language” regarding regional issues.
He mentioned the Iranian nuclear threat, the rise of “radical Islam”, ISIS and Hamas as the biggest challenges that the two countries are facing.
Maariv’s report noted that Egypt and Israel look at regional issues from the same perspective.
“In Israel [we] speak Hebrew, in Egypt [you] speak Arabic, but when discussing regional challenges, both countries speak the same language,” Maariv reported Gold saying.
According to an Israeli source, Gold told his Egyptian counterpart Osama Al-Majdoub that it is important to develop common policies towards regional issues. The source refused to disclose the broad outlines of such policies.
Egypt is not expected to change its strict anti-Hamas stance, and that the gestures of goodwill made by the Egyptian regime towards Hamas in recent days are tactical, not strategic, Maariv added.