CAIRO - Turkey's expulsion of the Israeli ambassador puts pressure on Egypt to downgrade ties following outrage over the border killings of Egyptian policemen, analysts said.
But they said post-Mubarak Egypt's military rulers are unlikely to expel the Jewish state's envoy despite widespread calls for his expulsion and for Cairo to revise its 1979 peace treaty with Israel.
Turkey's decision to expel the ambassador over the deaths of Turkish activists when Israeli commandos raided an aid shipment to Gaza comes at a time of growing debate in post-revolutionary Egypt on ties with Israel.
Ankara, positioning itself as a regional leader, has in the past embarrassed Egypt with its outspoken condemnation of Israel's treatment of Palestinians, in contrast to the restraint of now ousted president Hosni Mubarak's regime.
"Turkey teaches Egypt a lesson and expels the Israeli ambassador," screamed a headline splashed in red across the front page of Saturday's Al-Masry Al-Youm, the country's largest independent newspaper.
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