Dr. Essam El-Erian, Vice-Chairman of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), asserted that foreign public opinion will turn against Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, with the increasing number of civilians falling victim to his war machine in Gaza.

In a post on his Facebook page, Erian said: "The Israeli Prime Minister will certainly lose some of his allies in the West. Meanwhile, Israelis will topple him, if more soldiers fall dead, injured after a ground invasion, or if a couple of soldiers are abducted. He would be held to task, lose his parliamentary majority, and may well stand trial like his predecessors.

"The cause of Palestine is back in the focus of the Arab people. Egypt has changed, and is now fully behind the Palestinian people. Arabs are rethinking their entire concept of the peace process. Reconciliation on the agenda of the resistance is near."