It was the least Israel could do for its man in Cairo and just typical that an offer of asylum under Israeli protection would come from a Labour member of Israel's parliament. Here's the
JTA:
As the trial of Hosni Mubarak began in Egypt, an Israeli lawmaker said he had offered political asylum in Israel to the longtime Egyptian president.
Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, a Knesset member from the Labor Party, told Israel’s Army Radio on Wednesday that he had made the offer to an ailing Mubarak several months ago in Sharm el-Sheikh, a Red Sea resort city in Egypt.
"I met [Mubarak] in Sharm el-Sheikh and I told him that it was a short distance and that it might be a good chance to heal himself," Ben-Eliezer said, according to Haaretz. "I am convinced that the Israel government would have accepted him, but he declined [the offer] because he was a patriot."
I'm sure many Arab patriots would be honoured to end out their days in Palestine but maybe the blessing for Mubarak's presence was a humiliation too far:
According to The Jerusalem Post, Ben-Eliezer said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was a party to the offer.
Clearly comrade Hosni Mubarak is a man of the highest integrity.
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