On Hosni Mubarak finally acknowledging the obvious:
“The street won. There was nothing that could be done. It’s good that he did what he did,” former Defence Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, who knew Mubarak well, told Israel TV’s Channel 10. Egypt was the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel, and there are fears the 1979 accord could now be challenged.
– Associated Press
