Tag: Egypt

"Residents of Gaza: Move south for your personal safety and the safety of your families. Distance yourself from the Hamas terrorists, who are using you as a human shield."

Hamas, the militant group that controls the Gaza Strip, launched a series of rocket strikes that hit major cities across Israel, and it sent waves of fighters across the border into southern Israel, where they took over bases and seized hostages.

REPORTS are that the US Administration is going to partially cut funding to Egypt. In an already delicate North African-Middle Eastern state of affairs, this potentially opens the door for Russia to extend their authority from Syria, and to once again manipulate Egyptian policy in the region.

HOSNI Mubarak, the former Egyptian president overthrown in an uprising in 2011, will be released from jail soon after a prosecutor cleared him in a corruption case, his lawyer and a judicial source said on Monday.

BEFORE the violence this week in Cairo, the Israeli government was quietly pleased with the overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi and the crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, which has always been hostile to Israel.

WE'RE watching the unfolding situation in Cairo as night sets on the Egypt capital. The deadline issued by the Egyptian armed forces has passed, and President Morsi has made calls for reconciliation but has not stepped down, which was the primary demand of the protestors.

ARGUING that sending billions of taxpayer dollars overseas to hostile countries is "unconscionable", a US lawmaker has introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives to limit American aid to Pakistan and four other countries.

AS many as four in ten Muslims living in Afghanistan and Palestine support the use of suicide bombing, an extensive new international survey has found.

SINCE the beginning of 2013 people have been asking what these new times might bring in the Middle East region, specifically with the instability in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan, and looming Iranian nuclear ambitions.

AS rumors of preempt strikes and counter-strikes saturate the news I have been continually asked what Israel will do and when. This is a topic I have written about numerous times but first want to mention how Egypt, Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas’ uncertainty and relationship with Iran might play a role in this.