After years of stalled talks and escalating tensions, a U.S.-mediated agreement over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam may be close after President Donald Trump “expressed optimism” in his phone call with Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed last Friday. A signed agreement has not been finalized, but at meetings held in Washington on Jan. 28-31, the […]
(CNSNews.com) – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and senior Turkish officials hailed as a “martyr” Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Morsi, who died in a Cairo courtroom on Monday, six years after a military takeover abruptly ended his tenure as Egypt’s first freely-elected president. “In our eyes, he is a martyr who lost his life while fighting […]
The Daily Telegraph reported on the transfer of dozens of animals from a decrepit zoo in Gaza to Jordan thanks to an international NGO. Other media outlets made sure to include Israel’s role in facilitating this major cross-border operation. The BBC, for example, wrote: “Israel’s Land Crossing Authority chief said in a statement the country […]
Benny Huang Two horrific suicide bombings, in two different cities, two hours apart—this is how Egyptian Christians began Holy Week. In the cities of Tawra and Alexandria, Muslim terrorists stormed Coptic churches where they proceeded to blow themselves to a fine pink mist while taking 44 worshippers with them. These two attacks followed last December’s […]
When Michael Doran of the Hudson Institute told me he’s writing a book on President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Middle East policy, I nodded politely, wondering why someone engaged in current policy issues would devote himself to a topic of mainly antiquarian interest. Well, having now read Ike’s Gamble, I know the answer: his topic is […]
by Cynthia Farahat • Feb 3, 2017 Cross-posted from Cynthiafarahat.com Nearly every Sunni Islamist terror group in history was established fully or in part by Muslim Brotherhood members. In a January 26 Wall Street Journal article titled “Blacklisting Muslim Brotherhood Carries Risk,” Yaroslav Trofimov writes that the Trump administration’s proposed designation of the Brotherhood as […]
Israel calls recent U.N. resolution “the tip of the iceberg.” An Egyptian paper just published what it claims are the actual transcripts of meetings that occurred earlier this month between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Senior Palestinian Negotiator Saeb Erekat. If the documents are authenticated, the incident confirms Israel’s allegations that Washington and […]
By Walid Shoebat So look what we have here. Amr Khaled is a well known Muslim Brotherhood Jihadi of the first class known in Egypt. And what do we know. Look here. He shares his friendship and old photos on that flight with the captain of the crashed Egyptian flight MS804, Mohammed Said Shaker/Shukeir. This […]
Israel’s watching this development carefully: Egypt relinquished control of two islands in the Straits of Tiran to Saudi Arabia. The move settles an Egyptian-Saudi maritime dispute and paves the way for the two countries to build a bridge linking Saudi Arabia to Sharm El-Sheikh, which is at the tip of the Sinai Peninsula. It’s not […]
The United States military is considering pulling troops from a base in the northeastern part of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, partly because of the increasing threat from Islamic State (ISIS) group jihadists, CNN reported Tuesday. The Obama administration may order the movement of some American and international troops into the southern Sinai, and is discussing such […]
