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#tawfik okasha

An overwhelming majority of Egypt's parliament passed a motion to revoke controversial parliamentarian Tawfik Okasha on Wednesday, privately owned Al-Masry Al-Youm reported. The decision, for which 408 of the 596 members voted to pass, came after Okasha invited Israel's ambassador to Egypt Haim Koren for a private meeting in the former's home to discuss "several local and regional issues." In a phone-in to CBC Extra, Member of Parliament Medhat Sherif said that Okasha's meeting with Ambassador Koren was a "breach…