Egyptian President Mohamad Mursi told New York Times that the United States should change its approach to the Arab world to be able to repair relations and revitalize an alliance with Egypt.

Egyptian President Mohamad Mursi told New York Times that the United States should change its approach to the Arab world to be able to repair relations and revitalize an alliance with Egypt.

“Successive American administrations essentially purchased with American taxpayer money the dislike, if not the hatred, of the peoples of the region,” Mursi, who is traveling to New York on Sunday to take part in a meeting of the UN General Assembly told the paper.

If US is asking Egypt to honor its treaty with the Zionist entity, he said, Washington should also live up to its own Camp David commitment to Palestinian self-rule.
He said the United States must respect the Arab world's history and culture, even when that conflicts with Western values.

He also dismissed criticism from the White House that he did not move fast enough to condemn protesters who recently climbed over the United States Embassy wall and burned the American flag in anger over an offensive film to Islam and Prophet Mohammad (pbuh).