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Hundreds march in Cairo demanding Mursi ouster

By | 2013-05-17T18:47:22-04:00 May 17th, 2013|News|

Hundreds of people marched on Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday calling for Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Mursi to resign and demanding early elections, AFP correspondents and local media reported.   The demonstration was called by a number of opposition groups, including the Al-Dustur party of former U.N. atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei and the April

Egypt: Terrorists Planned to Bomb Cairo Embassies

By | 2013-05-16T23:57:13-04:00 May 16th, 2013|News|

Terrorists who were arrested in Egypt over the weekend were planning to attack the U.S. and French embassies in Cairo, Egyptian officials said Wednesday. The three are members of a terror organization, but Egyptian officials stopped short of admitting that the terrorists belonged to Al Qaeda.   The U.S. embassy in Cairo warned American citizens

Kassam Rocket from Gaza; Mortar Fire from Syria

By | 2013-05-16T11:53:32-04:00 May 16th, 2013|News|

Arab terrorists fired a Kassam rocket from Gaza Wednesday, marking Nakba Day – the day of the establishment of the state of Israel despite Arab efforts to annihilate it, just three years after the Auschwitz death factory closed its gates.   A Color Red siren sounded in the Eshkol region Wednesday afternoon, immediately after the

Israeli Students Mourn Establishment of Israel

By | 2013-05-15T10:46:47-04:00 May 15th, 2013|News|

Two protests were held at Tel Aviv University Monday – one, by a group of Arab and Jewish students protesting against the “nakba,” the defeat of Arab forces that resulted in the independence of Israel in 1948, and the other a group of pro-Israel students from the Im Tirzu organization, counter-demonstrating agains the nakba group.

Egyptian Lawmakers: Remove Israeli Ambassador

By | 2013-05-15T02:24:41-04:00 May 15th, 2013|News|

Members of the Shura Council, Egypt’s upper house of parliament, demanded on Monday that the Israeli ambassador in Egypt be removed and that his Egyptian counterpart in Tel Aviv be recalled as well.   The reason for the request, according to a report in the Al-Ahram daily, is what the Council called “the continuing assaults

Iran’s Ahmadinejad could face 74 lashes over election ‘violation’

By | 2013-05-13T11:01:08-04:00 May 13th, 2013|News|

After accompanying his former chief of staff to register for June’s presidential vote, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may face punishment if charged with breaking electoral rules, the country’s electoral watchdog said.   The president had accompanied Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie on Saturday to register at the Interior Ministry.   Photographs in the Iranian media showed them

Egypt court to rule next month on challenge to upper house

By | 2013-05-12T23:36:17-04:00 May 12th, 2013|News|

Egypt’s highest court will rule next month on the legality of the upper house of parliament, judicial sources said on Sunday, in a case that throws more legal doubt over a political transition repeatedly disrupted by lawsuits.   A ruling against the Muslim Brotherhood-led upper house by the Supreme Constitutional Court on June 2 could