Libya will give Egypt a $2billion five-year, interest-free loan under an agreement signed on Wednesday, the Egyptian state news agency MENA reported. It quoted a finance ministry official as saying the loan would have a three-year grace period and was intended “to support the Egyptian economy and the state budget and foreign currency reserves”.
An Israeli Arab man from Taibe has been arrested for illegally entering Syria and fighting with the Global Jihad rebel group. The man, 28-year-old Hakhmat Othman Hassin Matsarwa, entered Syria with two goals: to join Global Jihad and fight the Syrian army, and to find his brother Hassin, who had left for Syria to
There is a clear trend of Arab men sexually assaulting Jewish girls and women as a form of anti-Israel terrorism, attorney Roni Sadovnik said Wednesday, speaking to Arutz Sheva. Israel’s courts prefer to treat such crimes as solely criminal in nature rather than as crimes motivated by nationalist hate, she said. Changing the status
A Muslim cleric who became known as “the preacher of the revolution” for his sermons in Tahrir Square during the uprising against ousted President Hosni Mubarak and subsequent anti-government protests said he was suspended Tuesday by a ministerial decree following a citizen's complaint about his criticism of the current Islamist president. Sheik Mazhar Shahin
Last December, a statue of Adolf Hitler praying on his knees, was on display in the former Warsaw Ghetto, where so many Jews were killed or sent to their deaths. The work, "HIM", by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, received a green light from the local Jewish leaders. Poland's chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, said he was
Bahrain on Tuesday became the first Arab country to blacklist Hizbullah as a terrorist organization, the Al Arabiya network reports. The move came a week after the Bahraini parliament voted to label the group a terrorist organization. Its alleged backing and training of radical Shiite groups against Bahrain was the main reason given for
An article in two parts. For part I, click here. We are familiar with the common claim that it is difficult to imagine the State of Israel having come into existence without the Holocaust. I once mentioned this in a talk I gave on the Holocaust. Afterward, an old man who had lost his
An individual possesses the ability to grasp the short range significance of events and to understand those aspects which affect his own personal life. Yet, even this process takes time. Only after enough time has passed is one able to analyze properly what has befallen him. When a massive, sweeping event occurs - a tragedy
Iran insisted on Tuesday it will not suspend its enrichment of uranium to 20 percent nor will it ship out its existing stockpile -- two keys demands of world powers in failed nuclear talks with Tehran. “We will continue to enrich uranium to 20 percent purity as long as it is needed to fuel
Egypt is set to abolish fuel subsidies within three to five years in a bid to reduce its spiraling budget deficit, a senior minister told Al Arabiya. The government has already ended subsidies on 95-octane gasoline, and plans to cut subsidies on lower-octane fuel over the next few years to prevent the provision of
