Egypt punishes journalists for contacting Israel...

This is from a country at peace with Israel...

Two senior Egyptian editors - one a member of the country's ruling party and the other an expert on Jewish affairs - have been punished by Egypt's Journalists Union for violating its ban on contacts with Israel.

On Tuesday, however, the union reprimanded Hala Mustafa, editor in chief of the state-run weekly Democratiya, or Democracy, for meeting with Israel's ambassador in Egypt. Hussein Serag, the expert on Jewish affairs and deputy editor of the weekly magazine October, was suspended from writing for three months.