Reporter's notebook: Egypt's greatest fear: New Israeli immigrants | Jerusalem Post

Reporter's notebook: Egypt's greatest fear: New Israeli immigrants | Jerusalem Post: "The warm smile, anecdotal stories and freshly-squeezed lemonade almost make me miss the fact that I have just been told I am more dangerous than Iran's nuclear program.

It's a startling idea for a petite Jewish woman like myself, who has traveled briefly to this large Arab country from Israel, where doomsday headlines about Iran are printed on an almost daily basis. But it's not unusual on the street in Cairo, where a pop song, 'I Hate Israel,' can be heard blaring from car radios amid the constant honking of their horns.

Sitting in his Cairo office, veteran Egyptian diplomat Gamal Bayoumi dismisses with a wave of his hand the popular Israeli political belief that among moderate Muslim Arabs like himself, a nuclear Iran is fast replacing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the destabilizing force in the region.

'Be serious. Iran is a threat to me?' he says with an incredulous look on his face. Then, almost nonchalantly, he looks straight at me from across his desk and remarks that he is more worried about the influx into Israel of new immigrants like myself.

'Do you think you [Israel] can adopt all the Jews in the world? Then you will need more land, and that is what is frightening us, more than the nuclear weapons of Iran." Read complete post here.