Egypt over the past two years has sought to secure a loan from the International Money Fund worth $4.8 billion. The loan is seen as vital for boosting investor confidence, staving off a financial crisis, and supporting the Egyptian pound, which fell to its lowest level since 2004. Four successive finance ministers have led
“No one will touch media freedoms,” said Mohamed Mursi soon after his election. “There will be no pens broken, no opinions prevented, no channels or newspapers shut down in my era.” In just over six months since taking office, this pledge has been repeatedly proven as hollow as his vow to be “a president for
Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas spoke glowingly last Friday of the “legacy” of the infamous Hajj Amin al-Husseini, who was a collaborator with the Nazis, and was prepared to conduct the mass murder of the Jews of the Land of Israel in the event of a Nazi invasion. The Mufti, Abbas said, was a great
A furious municipal councillor in Le Havre has demanded an inquiry after 8,500 servings of chocolate mousse were thrown away by cafeterias at 67 schools in the region around the city. The desserts, destined for students at primary and elementary schools, were discarded last week because they contained pork gelatin, according to reports.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Israel would erect a new security fence along its armistice line with Syria in order to protect the Jewish state from "infiltration and terrorism.” Speaking at the weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu noted that the fence built along the Egyptian border has “completely stopped the entry of infiltrators
Egypt’s Islamist President Mohamed Mursi fired his finance and interior ministers, cabinet sources said on Saturday, in a government reshuffle he had promised to assuage public anger at an economic crisis. General Mohamed Ibrahim will replace Ahmed Gamal
Given the common status as minorities within an overwhelmingly Islamic region, you might expect Christian Arabs to find common cause with Jews and Israel. But it seems that the traditional hatred of Eastern Christianity for Judaism has closed off that option. The proof is Ray Hanania, a regular columnist for the Jerusalem Post and
Syrian President Bashar Assad gave a rare public speech Sunday as violence continues to rage across his country. Contrary to expectations that Assad would reveal a compromise aimed at solving the conflict, the embattled ruler called instead for a “full national mobilization” to fight his enemies. Assad did term his initiative a peace plan,
The Islamic Jihad terrorist group has vowed to fight Jews if they return to Egypt, saying they deserve to be killed, the Egyptian daily Al-Masry Al-Youm reported Thursday. The Islamic Jihad called on the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party’s Essam al-Erian to resign from his role as advisor to the president and apologize to
Assad's, soon-in-coming death, will make Qadaffi's death look like a summer picnic. Iran's pipe-dream that a coastal Alawite/Shiite enclave can survive a Sunni tsunami propagated from the wanton Shiite murder of 70,000 Sunni men, women, and children is a delusion. Any residual Assad remnant holdouts in the Syrian Latakia mountainous coastal region, will be washed
