Egyptian protesters have broken into the Israeli Embassy in a high-rise building in Cairo and are dumping hundreds of Hebrew documents off the balcony. Hundreds of protesters have been converging on the embassy throughout the afternoon and into the night, tearing down large sections of a security wall outside the 21-story building housing the embassy. […]
Gaza terrorists committed a major faux pas on Wednesday afternoon by launching a rocket attack on Rafiah instead of southern Israel. The missile, apparently intended for Jewish communities in the western Negev, instead struck a residential neighborhood in the city that straddles the Gaza border with Egypt. One woman suffered shrapnel wounds when the missile […]
The United States denounced on Thursday the combined terror attack in southern Israel and pressed Egypt to follow through on promises to ensure security in the Sinai, AFP reported. White House spokesman Jay Carney said in a statement that the U.S. condemns the attacks and hopes those responsible will be brought to justice. We condemn […]
Egypt and Saudi Arabia want to construct a giant bridge to accommodate road and rail traffic across the Gulf of Aqaba, Der Spiegel reports. Egyptian officials say the project, under discussion since 1988, has been approved. Egypt’s interim Prime Minister Essam Sharaf of the ruling junta has reportedly put General Abdul Aziz, chairman of the […]
Zvi Mazel, Israels former ambassador to Egypt, said Thursday that the end of the regime of former President Hosni Mubarak, does not necessarily mean the beginning of a new era in Egypt. Mazel, who spoke to Arutz Shevas Hebrew-language news service following the beginning of Mubarak’s trial, said that Mubarak kept the peace with Israel. […]
It wasn’t long ago that Hosni Mubarak, the 83-year-old former president of Egypt, was a key, U.S. ally. Nevertheless, last week The Blaze reported on the start of Mubarak’s embarrassing trial while in a cage, over charges of corruption and complicity in the killing of protesters. Now, the Muslim Brotherhood that President Obama helped gain […]
by Daniel Pipes August 3, 2011 The Palestinian Authority’s push to declare a Palestinian state is hardly a new idea. By my count, this is the fourth iteration. I described the first instance as follows: on October 1, 1948, Amin al-Husayni, the mufti of Jerusalem, stood before the Palestine National Council in Gaza and declared […]
Tens of thousands of Egyptians poured into Tahrir Square on Friday for a day that had been billed as one of unified protest against the interim military government. But the turnout was lopsided, dominated by members of religious movements, ranging from the most conservative, the Salafists, to the relatively more radicalized Muslim Brotherhood. According to […]
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is blasting a proposed House bill that would impose strict new requirements on U.S. foreign aid to Egypt, Lebanon, Pakistan, Yemen, and the Palestinian Authority, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday. In a letter she wrote to members of the House Foreign Affairs committee, Clinton claimed the bill would […]
Elliott Chodoff, an American born political and military analyst and an IDF reserve major, spoke at the Middle East Briefing session of the sixth CUFI national summit in Washington this week. Citing Israeli military intelligence, Chodoff was quite forthright in his analysis of a possible attack by Iran. Israel cannot survive a nuclear attack. You […]
