Thousands of angry Egyptian university students Tuesday continued their protests against Israel over its rededication of a syangogue near Al Aqsa Mosque, which is Islam's third holiest site. Around 2000 students at the Delta University of Menufia Tuesday chanted slogans against Israel for its recent decision to include two mosques in the West Bank into its national heritage list. They raised banners that called on Arab leaders to confront the Israeli violations. Students at Cairo University, the nation's biggest public university, used microphones to let passersby hear their voices when the police cordoned them off and stopped them getting out of the campus. Israeli occupation authorities ordered the demolition of Salman al-Farisi Mosque, which is under construction in Burin, a village in the West Bank, on the grounds of lacking proper building permits by the Israeli Construction and Structure Department. "Israel understands nothing but the language of power. We have to stop the Zionists from stealing Arab lands by force," said one student whose forehead was bleeding. He alleged that a policeman hit him while he was trying to get through the gate with his colleagues. Egypt was the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel in 1979.
