Sisi's reaction to the crisis with the Obama Administration has helped build up his credentials as a daring Egyptian nationalist who does not retreat before a superpower - among other things. Since the ousting of President Morsi on July 3, 2013, the issue of who will be the next elected President of Egypt has
In contrast to John Kerry's remarks, Israel has legitimate legal rights to Judea and Samaria, as summarized below. The following points are reposted from Ambassador Alan Baker's blog. 1. Upon Israel’s taking control of the area in 1967, the 1907 Hague Rules on Land Warfare and the Fourth Geneva Convention (1949) were not considered
Brigadier General Mickey Edelstein, head of the IDF's Gaza Division, admitted to Channel 10 to a certain degree of cooperation between the IDF and Hamas. "Hamas is in trouble and now it finds itself isolated," said Edelstein, in conversation with the Gaza residents released Monday on the television network. He stressed that "Leaders
Egypt’s new draft constitution was approved Sunday for a referendum billed as the first stage in a “democratic transition” promised by military-installed authorities after Islamist president Mohammed Morsi’s July ouster. “Now we have approved the draft,” Amr Mussa, the head of the 50-member constitution-drafting panel, announced on live television, according to the AFP news
The Palestinian Authority (PA) is threatening once again to pull out of the peace talks with Israel over its plans to build in Judea and Samaria. Channel 2 News reported on Sunday that the PA is accusing Israel of not having really cancelled tenders that were issued several weeks ago for 20,000 new homes
Ahmed Qureia, a former "prime minister" of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and a senior official in the Palestine Liberation Organization terrorist organization (PLO), claimed Sunday that "International involvement in Al-Quds (Jerusalem) enables Israel to continue its 'occupation', and for settlers to continue to defile some of Islam's holiest places." The references were to the
Egyptian security forces stormed Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Sunday after firing tear gas to disperse Islamist protesters, who entered the epicenter of the country’s previous uprisings for the first time in over a month. The protesters, who have long called for the reinstatement of ousted Islamist President Mohammmd Mursi, burned a police car and
Scores of protesters gathered on Saturday in front of Qatar’s Cairo embassy on Saturday, calling for the cutting of diplomatic ties with the Gulf state. The demonstators chanted anti-Qatar slogans in protest over what they called Doha’s support to the Muslim Brotherhood and its hostile stance over the ouster of Islamist President Mohammad Mursi.
Human Rights Watch urged Sunday Egypt’s military-installed government to free five aides of ousted Islamist president Mohammad Mursi, who have been detained since July without any legal basis. “Almost five months later, the government has yet to formally acknowledge their detention or disclose their fate or whereabouts, conditions that constitute enforced disappearance,” the rights
Iraq's bloody path to a sectarian war continues, as Iraqi police found the bodies of 18 men who were kidnapped from their homes and killed execution-style, NDTV reports Friday. The corpses were found grouped together and shot in the head in Meshahda, a predominantly Sunni Muslim area, around 32 km (20 miles) north of
