Egyptian judges condemn Israel's offensive on Lebanon, Palestinian territories

Egypt's judges condemned Thursday the "brutal" Israeli attacks on Palestinian and Lebanese people, the official MENA news agency reported.

In a statement, the judges also rejected the so-called "New Middle East" approach proposed by U.S. President George W. Bush to create a Middle East free of Islamic thought.

The statement said the Lebanese resistance was the only means to protect the Arab nation and maintain its honor, adding it was no longer acceptable to describe the United States as a friendly country or a strategic ally in the region.

The U.S. was the maker, supporter and main beneficiary of aggression on Lebanon, it added.

The judges confuted any attempt to pit Sunnis against Shiites or Arab Muslims against Arab Christians, and disproved U.S. refusal to Iran's acquisition of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

Egypt has been making repeated calls for an immediate ceasefire from the beginning of the 23-day-old Hezbollah-Israel conflict, but the United States refused any immediate ceasefire.

Source: Xinhua