In an interview with London based satellite television station, al-Hiwar, the editor-in-chief of al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper, Abdel Bari Atwan, revealed the existence of intelligence reports documenting a secret meeting between former Israeli Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, and Amr Mousa during the latter’s unexpected visit to Ramallah on November 4 – ten days before the attacks on the Gaza Strip. Reports on November 26 mentioned that Livni made a direct request to Amr Mousa to pre-occupy Egyptian President, Mohamed Morsi, during this period with internal affairs.
This is what in effect happened as Amr Mousa returned from his visit and led the withdrawals from the Constituent Assembly of the Constitution without providing any reason convincing to public opinion. So much so that he affected an altercation with the head of the Constituent Assembly and blocked an article of the constitution which he himself had proposed. This matter occupied Egyptian public opinion and talk show programmes and he escalated his attack on President Morsi as the attack on Gaza escalated.