30 April 2013 (02:10 UTC-07 Tango)/19 Jumada t-Tania 1434/10 Ordibehest 1391/21 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

While Israel launches new airstrikes on Gaza Strip (killing a man when his body was cut in half by the explosions), Egypt has walked out of international nuclear nonproliferation talks.  Egypt wants Israel, a nuclear weapons power, to sign onto the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

“Egypt and many Arab countries have joined the NPT with the understanding that this would lead to a Middle East completely free of nuclear weapons. However, more than 30 years later, one country in the Middle East….Israel, remains outside the NPT.”-Hisham Badr, former Egyptian Ambassador to Geneva

Egyptian officials imply they will arm themselves with nukes, to defend against Israel.