Egypt Friday angrily told Israel to stop threatening any Arab country with war if the Jewish state wanted to hold peace talks with the Arabs, Egypt's official Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported. Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit (picture) said that Egypt expressed concern over the Israeli foreign minister's statements in which he harshly warned Syria on Thursday against drawing the Jewish state into another war. Israel should stop the language of threats so the atmosphere which is becoming ready more or less for peace talks is not destroyed, Abul Gheit said. He said that the Arabs were ready to go ahead with the peace negotiations if Israel stopped the language of threats and chose the "right path of peace and proved its good will". Abul Gheit's statement was a response to Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's direct verbal attacks against Syria and its president Bashar al-Assad. It also came after after Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak warned on Monday that if there was no peace agreement with Syria, "Israel might find itself in a forceful conflict that could lead to an all-out war." Abul Gheit, according to (MENA), called on Israeli officials to refrain from using the language of threats, which has an adverse effect on the peacemaking efforts. He said that the bellicose language harms international and regional efforts, which are being led by Egypt, at making peace.
