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US / Egypt

Morsi’s Goon Squads Kill 2 Activists; US ‘Disturbed’

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood regime is making Hosni Mubarak look like a peacenik. Police tortured to death two activists, others are “missing,” but the US is politely “disturbed” at its Muslim ally.

News Briefs / Egypt

Angry Protesters in Tahrir Square: Morsi Will Fall Tonight

By Jewish Press Staff

Thousands of protesters are converging on Tahrir Square from points around Cairo to rally against President Mohamed Morsi’s constitutional declaration. One protester has died after inhaling teargas, Egypt Independent reports. Dozens of parties and civil society groups called for the protests after Morsi's declaration last Thursday which gave him tyrannical powers and declared the Constituent […]

Egypt

Protester Dies: When Is a Dictator Not a Dictator? Never

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

The day after the U.S. administration cast Morsi in the role of new peacekeeper, he recast himself as something more like a new pharoah. And, despite what the New York Times and the Washington Post wrote, he is not giving back any of the real power he's granted himself.

News Briefs / Egypt / Archaeology

Archaeologists Find Tomb of Egyptian Princess

By Malkah Fleisher

AP: The 4,500-year-old tomb of a Egyptian Pharaonic princess has been discovered by Czech archaeologists south of Cairo, leading experts to believe more tombs may be in the area.

News Briefs

El Al Interrupts Cairo Service

By Jewish Press News Desk

Citing high costs and a sharp reduction in reservations, El Al has announced that it is about to stop its regular flights to and from Cairo, Egypt. Israel and Egypt have kept aviation ties since the signing of the peace treaty more than 30 years ago.

Sultan Knish

Better Than They Are

By Daniel Greenfield

After Muslims killed thousands of Americans we did everything we could to learn about their religion, to celebrate it and soothe their ruffled feathers.

News Briefs

Several Thousands Protested in Egypt

By Jewish Press News Desk

On Friday, several thousand Egyptians protested against the Muslim Brotherhood and their new Egyptian president Morsi. Protesters marched in Cairo and Alexandria. The Muslim Brotherhood organized a counter-protest at the same time. In clashes between the pro and anti Morsi protesters, at least 13 people were injured.

News Briefs

200 Protest in Cairo

By Jewish Press News Desk

It is still early in the day, but according to Arab news outlets,  200 people in Cairo have begun protesting against Egyptian President Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood takeover. The protest is expected to get larger as evening approaches and the temperature cools down.

Analysis

Egypt: Israel's Western Border Threat

By Amos Harel

Israel had previously ignored, or sometimes secretly approved, Egyptian violations of the treaty. These always concerned deploying more battalions than agreed, but only for a short period of time, in order to fight the terrorist groups. This time, Cairo is aiming for a more serious goal.

Middle East / Levant / News Briefs

Netanyahu's Poignant Message to Cairo: Get Those Tanks Out of the Sinai

By Jacob Edelist

After Egypt has dispatched tanks into the northern Sinai area over the past few weeks, as part of its attempt to combat Islamist terror cells in the peninsula, the Prime Minister’s office has decided that this must stop. Using the White House, Netanyahu sent a sharp message to Cairo to withdraw the tanks immediately.

Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs

Source: Hamas Gives in to Pressure, Permitting Voter Registry Update, Palestinian Elections Expected on Oct. 20

By Jacob Edelist

Gaza's Hamas government has given the green light to the Palestinian Central Election Commission to begin updating voter registration data in the Gaza Strip—an electoral requirement not undertaken since the 2006 parliamentary election, in which Hamas received a majority of votes in the PA controlled parts of Judea and Samaria as well as Gaza, according to the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. Last Sunday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told Turkey's state-run news agency that efforts to achieve reconciliation between his Fatah party and Hamas have reached "a deadlock."

News Briefs

Mursi Muslim Brotherhood Campaign Claims Egypt Presidency, Shafiq Denies

By Jewish Press News Desk

Al Ahram has just published these tweets from Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Mursi: 6:28 Ikhwanweb tweets: President-Elect Mohamed #Morsi, heads to #Tahrir - symbol of the Egyptian revolution - after speech at his campaign HQ announcing elex results 6:25 Mursi is in the lead with 52.3 per cent of the total 21,560,639 ballots cast nationwide, […]

Middle East / Levant / News Briefs

Thousands Protest Egyptian Election Results, Set Ablaze Establishment Candidate's HQ

By Jacob Edelist

Thousands gathered overnight in Tahrir Square, Cairo, to demonstrate against Egypt's election results which will pit deposed ruler Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister Ahmed Shafiq against Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Mursi in a runoff election on June 16 and 17.

Israel / Middle East / Levant

Egyptian-Israeli Tensions Rise

By Steve K. Walz

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is facing the grim prospect of witnessing the 33-year-old Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement unravel as the rise of radical Islamic political parties in Cairo and unchecked Bedouin terrorist activities across the Sinai Peninsula – which have included sabotaging a gas pipeline to Israel – threaten to create a new political and military crisis between the two countries and throughout the Middle East.

News Briefs

Egyptian women to March Thursday Demanding Political Representation

By Jewish Press News Desk

Al Ahram reports that a women's demonstration has been planned for Thursday to coincide with International Women’s Day, in downtown Cairo. Organizers are expected to provide parliamentary leaders with 100 suggested names of prominent female Egyptian figures for inclusion in a constituent assembly that will be mandated with drawing up a new constitution. Despite the […]

News Briefs

PA to Ask Arab League to Convene Peace Conference

By Jewish Press Staff

PA President Mahmoud Abbas will ask the Arab League to hold a peace conference.

News Briefs

Israeli Ambassador to Egypt Returns Home Again

By Jewish Press Staff

Israel fears protesters may incite anti-Israel violence on anniversary of January 25 Revolution.

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter IV

By Ruchama Feuerman

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