The prime minister’s office in Israel has announced that newly sworn-in Benyamin Netanyahu will met with Egypt’s President Honsi Mubarak sometime in the next two weeks.

Netanyahu plans to travel to Egypt prior to his first trip to the United States on May 17th.

What is to be discussed on the agenda is the issue of smuggling into Gaza through the Egyptian border, the status of an imprisoned Israeli occupation soldier [whose name I refuse to state because Israel wants its occupation troops humanized while it dehumanizes Arabs] and the continuing status of the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations.

Mubarak without question both the most unpopular Arab leader domestically and internationally. Maybe around 5% of Egyptian approve of him. The Mubarak regime was known to have supported Israel’s assault against the Palestinians in Gaza, an attack that killed over 900 Palestinians civilians of whom over 400 were children. And till this day the Egyptian government refuses to open its side of the border to even slightly ameliorate the condition of starving Palestinians. Palestinians are dying at the Rafah crossing because Egypt refuses to open the border. And just recently, it has sent in even more troops to stop smuggling. It is important to note that Hamas does not smuggle only pieces-of-shit rockets. It is even uncertain if it is smuggling any rockets now. The tunnels that Israel and Egypt want to shut down are used to provide some degree of relief for Palestinians by giving them food and oil while both cruel nations continue with the blockade. The Egyptian regime is officially collaborating in the death of the Palestinians. Mubarak kissing Bibi’s ass will only further lower his image.

As for Bibi, this is an empty trip. Of course, he will state that he is going to Egypt because he cares about peace and is interested to hear about how things are going. Nonsense! He does not need to go to Egypt for a briefing. Bibi is not interested in peace with the Palestinians and has never even paid lip service to a two-state solution. He is only going to Egypt before America so he can present himself as a man who reaches out toward peace so then maybe the Obama White House will go easy in making demands on freezing settlements and endorsing a two-state solution.

What a grotesque display of two vile leaders: a collaborator and the other a transparent warmonger.

By the way, La vache qui rit [”the laughing cow”] is what Egyptians call their president because apparently [I kind of see it] he looks like the cheese cow.