CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian protesters scaled the walls of the U.S. embassy in Cairo on Tuesday and pulled down the American flag during a protest over what they said was a film being produced in the United States that insulted their Prophet Mohammad, witnesses said. In place of the U.S. flag, the protesters tried to […]
IDNS: Did a US Message to Iran Leave Israel Hanging? September 3, 2012 16:12 by Pesach Benson Everything you need to know about today’s coverage of Israel and the Mideast. Join the Israel Daily News Stream on Facebook. Today’s Top Stories 1. White House to Iran: We’ll oppose an Israeli attack if you don’t attack […]
IDNS: Diplomatic Spat After Iranian Translator Falsifies Morsi Speech September 2, 2012 15:02 by Pesach Benson Everything you need to know about the weekend coverage of Israel and the Mideast. Join the Israel Daily News Stream on Facebook. Today’s Top Stories 1. Iran’s Persian translators deliberately mistranslated parts of Mohammed Morsi’s address to the Non-Aligned […]
Egypt has deployed U.S.-made surface-to-air missiles and tanks near the border with Israel, in a breach of the 1979 peace treaty, reports the World Tribune. Western defense sources said the Egyptian Army has deployed “a range of assets supplied by the United States.” They cited main battle tanks (MBTs) and surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), particularly in the […]
IDNS: Judge Absolves IDF For Rachel Corrie’s Death August 28, 2012 16:42 by Pesach Benson Everything you need to know about today’s coverage of Israel and the Mideast. Join the Israel Daily News Stream on Facebook. Today’s Top Stories 1. Absolving the IDF of responsibility for Rachel Corrie’s death, an Israeli civilian court rejected a […]
CAIRO — Egypt now Muslim Brotherhood controlled government has again allowed an Iranian Navy ship to pass the Suez Canal toward Syria. A senior official said the Egyptian Navy approved the passage of an Iranian ship loaded with weapons to move from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. The Iranian Navy frigate IS Alvand […]
Israel Objects to Egypt’s Sinai Military Buildup August 21, 2012 13:40 by Pesach Benson Everything you need to know about today’s coverage of Israel and the Mideast. Join the Israel Daily News Stream on Facebook. Today’s Top Stories: 1. After Reuters reported that Egypt planned to send tanks and aircraft into the Sinai to fight jihadis, […]
If our government consistently gets something wrong, but then declares that everything is A-OK, how should the rest of us react? Should we ignore clearly visible warning signs, or should we simply continue to trust the Obama administration–and Obamaphilic analysts and journalists? And if we see a pattern of events that always turns out negatively […]
Did Hamas have advance info about the Kerem Shalom attack? August 14, 2012 12:49 by Pesach Benson Everything you need to know about today’s coverage of Israel and the Mideast. Join the Israel Daily News Stream on Facebook. Today’s Top Stories 1. Egypt believes Hamas knew about the Kerem Shalom attack ahead of time. Cairo also […]
Thanks to Obama’s policies in Egypt and him calling for Mubarak to step down last year, the Israeli military just reported today explosions in the southern city of Eilat, and it’s suspected that rockets were fired from the now radicalized Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, Obama helped make sure that Egypt is under Radical Islamist control. So […]
