Zionist entity’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a letter to Egypt’s Mohammad Mursi, congratulating him and urging the new president to uphold a “peace” treaty between Cairo and Tel Aviv.

Zionist entity’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a letter to Egypt’s Mohammad Mursi, congratulating him, and urging the new president to uphold a “peace” treaty between Cairo and Tel Aviv.

The letter "stressed Israel's desire to continue cooperation and to strengthen the peace,” Israeli daily Haaretz and AFP news agency quoted an Israeli source as saying in condition of anonymity.

The letter was sent "in the last few days," the source added, with Haaretz reporting that it was delivered to Mursi, via the Israeli embassy in Cairo.

The newspaper said the message "congratulated Mursi on his election, offered to cooperate with the new government in Cairo and expressed... hope that both parties will observe the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty."

Netanyahu "emphasized that honoring the agreement is in the interest of both countries," the newspaper added, saying the Israeli premier had also “wished Mursi good luck” in his new role.

Haaretz said Israeli officials, after consulting with Washington, had decided to put off attempts to organize a phone call between Mursi and Netanyahu, but said the Israeli PM had dispatched an envoy for meetings with Egyptian security officials.

Netanyahu's letter repeated much of the content of the statement he made publicly after Mursi was officially declared the winner of Egypt's first post-uprising presidential election.
"Israel values the democratic process in Egypt and respects the results of the presidential election," he said in a statement at the time.
"Israel hopes to continue cooperation with the Egyptian government on the basis of the peace treaty," which the two countries signed in 1979.