The Israeli online newspaper, Jerusalem Post, reports that Egypt's embattled leader, Hosni Mubarak, will always be remembered for preserving three decades of peace between the two nations, President Shimon Peres said on Saturday.
Peres delivered an impassioned defense of Mubarak, crediting him with saving both Arab and Israeli lives by preventing war in the Middle East.
"His contribution to peace, as far as I'm concerned, will never be forgotten," Peres said in an address to hundreds of visiting members of the European Parliament.
Peres warned against the possibility that Mubarak's ouster would bring the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's best organized opposition movement, to power, saying the fundamentalist group won't bring peace.
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