A day before his resignation on Friday, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak has slammed the USA for their policies which he believes will help extremist Islamists take over in the Middle East.

Mubarak was devastatingly critical of the USA in a telephone call Thursday with Israeli legislator Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Ben-Eliezer himself revealed on Israel TV Friday.

"He had very tough things to say about the United States. He gave me a lesson in democracy and said: 'We see the democracy the United States spearheaded in Iran and with Hamas, in Gaza, and that's the fate of the Middle East. They may be talking about democracy but they don't know what they're talking about and the result will be extremism and radical Islam,'" Mubarak said, according to Ben-Eliezer, a member of the center-left Labor Party who has held talks with Mubarak in his capacity of a former minister in Israeli governments.

"He contended the snowball (of civil unrest) won't stop in Egypt and it wouldn't skip any Arab country in the Middle East and in the Gulf. He said 'I won't be surprised if in the future you see more extremism and radical Islam and more disturbances - dramatic changes and upheavals," Ben-Eliezer added.

According to the Israeli legislator, Mubarak was seeking an honorable way out of the civil unrest crisis in his country.

"He repeated the sentence, 'I have been serving my country, Egypt, for 61 years. Do they want me to run away? I won't run away. Do they want to throw me out? I won't leave. If need be, I will be killed here,'" Ben-Eliezer revealed.

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