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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the rulers of Egypt next Sunday to preserve the peace treaty between the two countries, following the lead of the Islamists in the first phase of parliamentary elections in Egypt.
Netanyahu said - in a speech in southern Israel, and in his first public comments on this matter - "We hope to recognize any future government in Egypt, the importance of maintaining the institutions of peace with Israel as it is, and as a basis for regional security and economic stability."
The results of the first phase of the elections approaching, the Muslim Brotherhood from obtaining the largest number of seats in the first freely elected parliament in six decades, also resolve the light ancestral party in second place, followed by a coalition of Egyptian bloc, and the Wafd Party.
Will not know the final outcome of the elections until after the vote and coming in two phases each lasting two days, in the process will not end until January 11 next.
Israel has expressed concern about the possibility of the arrival of the Islamic groups hostile to power after the Arab spring revolutions that overthrew the leaders of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen.
Egypt was the first Arab country to recognize Israel, and signed a peace treaty in 1979 secured the withdrawal of Israel from the Sinai.
Fears and concernsIsrael had crossed after the announcement of preliminary results of the Egyptian elections, for fear of victory of Islamic forces, believing that the results were "more dangerous than expectations", and Israeli officials believe that if these forces were united, Israel "will face difficulties."
The Israeli newspaper Maariv Sunday for a government official as saying that if united with the Muslim Brotherhood, the Salafists will have up to now 60% of the seats in parliament, "then the situation will be difficult and even dangerous" for Israel.
He said that Egypt had become a "religious state" is working against Israel, was seen as a "grave danger" to the Camp David peace accords signed by Israel and Egypt in 1979.
He said the Israeli official that if the Union of Islamic Egypt, it would have on Israel to study - more than the past - it would escalate the situation against the Gaza Strip and launched by a military operation as it did in 2009, because that in his view could push Egypt to cut ties with Israel and to withdraw its ambassador from Tel Aviv.
And in turn blamed the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth on Sunday to Israeli security official as saying that the election results in Egypt, "more serious than we expected."
The Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said the second channel of the Israeli television on Saturday that what he called "the process of Islamisation in Arab countries is very disturbing," but he added that it was premature to speculate now how the impact of these changes on the region.
On his part, Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz - in an interview on Israel Radio - the hope "that keeps Egypt on democracy and not turn into a radical Islamic state, which would endanger the security of the entire region at risk."
For his part, criticized Environment Minister Gilad Erdan statements of some Israeli politicians on the situation in Egypt, and stressed the need for Israel to "develop its relations with the Egyptian side of any system whatever its political and ideological, in order to maintain the Camp David."
Source: Al Jazeera + and agencies
