Egypt's press today reported that Israelis protested outside the Egyptian consulate in Eilat to bring down the Egyptian flag. Also, Egypt's ruling military council is studying the political response against Islamists' escalation. Youm7 Youm7 held an interview with Abdellatif al-Sherif, who is considered the head of the Islamic economic ascendancy triangle, which started during the 1980s. Sherif said former President Hosni Mubarak made sure to have expelled his family from their own house. Sherif also said there's problem if the army or the Islamists rule the country, and that the word ‘businessman' is considered as an insult. The newspaper reported that the military council began to re-calculate its political issues to face the denial and escalation launched by the Islamists and Muslim Brotherhood. The military council will respond in three steps: First, it will issue a decree to amend the election law. Second, it will issue a decree to amend the electoral districts. Third, it will assign the head of the Supreme Elections' Committee to announce the dates of parliamentary elections by the end of this month. Youm7 also reported that Mohamed el-Baradei launched a presidential tour without talking about the presidential elections. Al- Ahram The coordinator of the counter-terrorism department in the U.S. Department of State, Daniel Benjamin, said that Egyptian security forces took the right steps to retain control in Sinai. The military council has finished setting the electoral system, after creating amendments to have 2/3 of the electoral districts conducted by the list system and 1/3 by the individual system. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas presented an official document to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to ask for UN recognition of Palestinian statehood. Al-Akhbar Al-Akhbar reported that tens of revolution coalitions and independent activists organized a protest yesterday against the Emergency Law and high prices. The Egyptian Ministry of Social Justice faces a huge deficit in the amount of rice and seeks to invent new tenders to provide rice. Grocery stores have complained of the bad quality of the rice they received. The 43 parties of the Democratic Alliance are facing problems in creating their electoral list, as the Nassarist Party refuses to present its electoral list. Al-Masry Al-Youm Former U.S. Ambassador to Cairo and Tel Aviv Daniel Kurtzer criticized Egypt's ruling military council. Kurtzer said the council is responsible for the escalation of violence against Israel in the Egyptian street. He also said the anti-Israel speech is not just going to affect Israeli-Egypt relations but will also affect the credibility of the democratic shift in Egypt. Kurtzer added that if those he called “mobs” asked for the cessation of the peace accord an extremist policy between the two countries may arise. Al-Shorouq The prosecution investigation held with the Egyptian Museum director Tarek al-Awady, who said that 139 monitoring cameras exist in the museum and work for 24 hours per day to show what is happening inside and outside the museum. A European delegation visited Egypt to oversee the conditions in Egypt pre-elections. Al-Gomhorreya Minister of Health Amr Hilmi said that a national department will be established for the food safety in cooperation with different parties. Prime Minister Essam Sharaf said that the government will allocate 50 million EGP to develop the touristic area in Dahshour. The Council of Ministers' slow procedures delayed the retrieval of 171 Egyptian artifacts from Australia, according to the paper.
