Human Rights Watch has called on the United States not to resume military assistance to Egypt until its military-backed government ends human rights abuses and holds violators accountable, reported Reuters. In October, the United States announced it would cut hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Egypt over its displeasure with the military's
Egypt’s former army chief and defense minister, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, received backing for his presidential bid from former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Al Jazeera reported on Thursday, citing an Egyptian news website. However, Mubarak’s lawyer later denied that his client had indeed backed Sisi. According to Al Jazeera, Mubarak told a reporter from
Israel on Thursday informed the Palestinian Authority (PA) of a series of punitive measures against it, following the PA’s request to join 15 international conventions. According to Kol Yisrael radio, these measures include a suspension of high-level contacts between ministers and CEOs, and any contacts with the PA will now be led by the
Islamofascism: With an eye toward the 2016 election, the radical Muslim Brotherhood has built the framework for a political party in America that seeks to turn Muslims into an Islamist voting bloc. 'Muslim voters have the potential to be swing voters in 2016," said Nihad Awad in launching the benign-sounding U.S. Council of Muslim
In 2008, Yasir Said honor killed his two daughters in a suburb of Dallas, Texas. Their mother, Tissy, who has not been charged or arrested, aided and abetted him. Said routinely abused his daughters, both sexually and physically, just as if they were living in Egypt. He demanded that they marry Egyptian men of his
Jewish Home Chairman, Economics Minister Naftali Bennett, pithily rejected Thursday the Palestinian Authority (PA) demand that Israel give a commitment that the future Palestinian state would include eastern Jerusalem. "You wanted a commitment? Here it is: Eastern Jerusalem will never be your capital,” wrote Bennett on his Facebook page. The PA-based Ma'an news
The Palestinian Authority (PA) is eligible to join up to 550 international treaties and conventions, including the International Criminal Court, its ambassador to the UN said Wednesday, according to the Ma’an news agency. The comments by Ibrahim Khraishi came hours after the UN received the PA’s requests to join several international conventions and treaties,
Obama is clearly desperate to distract the world from Iran and from realizing that his Iran Interim Nuclear agreement is a farce - or shall we say a bomb (literally and figuratively). Obama's agreement will enable Iran to quickly develop a nuclear bomb under the world's radar and everybody from the Saudis to the
Those who feel time in their bones know the patterns of history and can never lose themselves in one age or fall into the fallacy of a new era. They know that there is nothing new under the sun. Saturday night began the celebration of the Jewish holiday of Purim, which lasts one day
Several days ago, a group of 48 super-rich, super-politically connected American Jews sent a group-signed letter to all the Democratic U.S. Senators putting the “Rich Jewish Democratic Donor” kibosh to work on the Senate to prevent passing the Iranian sanctions bill that would have likely passed both Senate and House. Having the law pass would
