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By JTA
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Israel was behind last month’s military coup in Egypt. Erdogan told a meeting of the provincial chairs of his ruling Justice and Development, or AKP, party that he has evidence that Israel was involved in the July 3 overthrow of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, the Turkish Hurriyet news […]
By JTA
When Magda Haroun was out on the streets during the unrest now rocking Egypt’s capital, she saw someone standing over the body of a dead soldier. “Not even a Jew would do this,” she heard him say. Haroun, the president of the Egyptian Jewish community, doesn’t enjoy hearing anti-Semitic slurs on the street. She gets […]
By Paul Alster
Within hours of Morsi's departure, the streets of Cairo were awash with anti-Qatari banners accompanied by the obligatory anti-US and anti-Israel slogans.
America forgets that it corrected the flaw in its founding by killing 30 percent of Southern men of military age during its own Civil War.
Saudi Arabia said Monday that it and other Muslim countries are ready to bankroll Egypt to make up for any financial aid that the United States might cut. “To those who have announced they are cutting their aid to Egypt, or threatening to do that, (we say that) Arab and Muslim nations are rich with […]
Egypt closes Rafah border crossing, but no outrage from the defenders of Gaza. On the other hand, Hamas and Fatah are busy insulting each other.
Near the Sinai peninsula, the Israeli Defense Forces continue on high alert, watching every suspicious movement in the sands near the Egyptian border for signs of the next attack.
By Daniel Pipes
Ahmed Shafiq, the former air force commander and former president Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, actually won the presidential race by a narrow margin.
The Egyptian army is fighting a movement that is extremely anti Semitic as a part of its religious theology.
By J. E. Dyer
The Muslim Brotherhood is willing to keep chaos and misery going for as long as necessary to topple the military’s interim government.
The Muslim Brotherhood, which was banned as a political party in the days of Hosni Mubarak, now is being banned by the new regime that ousted the Brotherhood, which was elected into office less than two years ago. Minister of Social Solidarity Ahmed al-Borai said that the ministry has started taking the legal steps necessary […]
First, the US backed ousting Mubarak because of his violence. Then it urged elections, Morsi won, and the US backed his ouster. Then the army killed a few hundred, but Kerry has a solution: Elections.
Egypt’s interim President Adly Mansour declared a month-long state of emergency Wednesday, putting the stamp on what the Obama administration has refused to call a military coup. Mansour “has tasked the armed forces, in cooperation with the police, to take all necessary measures to maintain security and order and to protect public and private property […]
The United States closed its consular services at its embassy in Cairo at 1 p.m. Wednesday as violence escalated across the country. At least two journalists, a cameraman for Sky News and a journalist from the United Arab Emirates, were gunned down. In understated language, the U.S. Embassy stated, “As a matter of general practice, […]
Egyptian presidential media adviser Ahmed El-Muslimany has denied a report by Reuters that the government offered the Muslim Brotherhood ministerial posts, to release several of its jailed members and to unfreeze the group's assets as part of a deal to end the political crisis, Egyptian state news agency MENA reported. Reuters reported earlier, citing a […]
By Barry Rubin
Obama, a man who has spent a few hours in Israel and has no empathy with it, dares to say that he knows better what that country needs than does Prime Minister Netanyahu.
American democracy fails again in the Middle East. The Egyptian army killed approximately 100 pro-Morsi demonstrators, wounded nearly 2,000. Several victims were shot in the head.
What’s good for Mubarak is good for Morsi. The coup that was not a coup continues to replay the 2011 revolution that ousted Mubarak, who landed up in jail. Now it is Morsi’s turn. Stay tuned for violence.
The Hamas terrorist government in Gaza has shut down the Bethlehem-based Ma'an News Agency and the Al-Arabiya satellite channel bureaus in Gaza, Ma’an reported. It said that Hamas officials questioned its Gaza bureau chief over an article translated from an Israeli newspaper reporting that six Muslim Brotherhood smuggled themselves into Gaza to plan an uprising […]
One policeman was killed and at least 29 others were wounded Wednesday when an unknown attacker hurled a high-powered bomb, or possibly rocket-propelled grenades, at a police station north of Cairo and near El Arish. Shortly before, the Egyptian military called on people to rally on Friday against violence, in effect a call for a […]
Israel, for a change, can sit back, enjoy the show and watch Egypt do what the world would not let the IDF do – massive destruction of Hamas smuggling tunnels and all-out war against terror in the Sinai. Israel, for a change, can sit back, enjoy the show and watch Egypt do what the world would not let the IDF do – massive destruction of Hamas smuggling tunnels and all-out war against terror in the Sinai. The Egyptian military demolished hundreds of smuggling tunnels in and out of Hamas-controlled Gaza Sunday and is preparing for an all-our onslaught of Hamas, Al Qaeda and other terrorists in the Sinai, Egyptian media reported. The Egyptian offensive is a political and military shock to Hamas, with reverberations in Ramallah and Washington, on the eve of yet another attempt by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to re-ignite the “peace process.” “The reduction in smuggling will make it difficult for Hamas to maintain the level of its revenues, and therefore it will be hard pressed to contain the protests against its rule,” according to the Institute of National Security Studies (INSS). “It will also be difficult to infiltrate weapons into Gaza, mainly enhanced rockets and surface-to-surface missiles.” The Egyptian Aswat Masriya media outlet reported that 805 tunnels along the smuggling route, centered in the border city of Rafiah, were destroyed. Most of the tunnels have been used to smuggle fuel into Gaza. The Egyptian army will also close the Rafiah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip “indefinitely,” an official source told Egyptian newspaper al-Masry al-Youm. It placed a severe siege on Hamas but without a peep from the international community, which still condemns Israel for the maritime embargo that is aimed at preventing the import of terrorists and weapons from the sea. Terrorists in Rafiah targeted a military checkpoint Saturday, but no casualties were reported, and Egypt opened the Rafiah border crossing for four hours Saturday to allow humanitarian cases to cross the border. The tunnels have been a key route for terrorists to travel freely back and forth to the Sinai Peninsula and establish terrorist outposts aimed at staking out bases for attack on Egyptian tourist areas, such as El Arish, as well as urban areas. The army killed at least five terrorists on Friday, but Egyptian media reported a larger-scale offensive is in the works after an attempted assassination of Second Field Army commander Maj. Gen. Ahmed Wasfy on Wednesday. Egypt is using heavy arms and warplanes, maneuvers that are prohibited under the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty of 1979 without Israel’s approval. With the unstable and radical anti-Israel Muslim Brotherhood out of power, thanks to the military “impeachment” or coup – take your pick – Israel is not blocking any offense, “Security sources confirmed that Israel does not mind that the Egyptian forces use heavy artillery and warplanes during the operation which is expected to start very soon” military sources confirmed to the official television on Saturday. Official added, “The army had decided to cleanse the Sinai of armed gangs and terrorists "The operation will continue until it reaches its objectives, which are not only military but also aim to develop the Sinai.” Meanwhile, state media have reported Friday that two Egyptian Apache helicopters hovered over olive groves south of El-Arish before they fired shells at bunkers of Jihadist gunmen who were preparing to attack army checkpoints. The Egyptian Air Force on Saturday sent in two Apache helicopters to gun down jihadists after it received intelligence information that they were hiding in olive groves and preparing to attack military checkpoints. On Friday, an Egyptian helicopter was seen in the skies over Gaza for the first time since the Six-Day War in 1967. The Hamas terrorist organization is an offspring of the Muslim Brotherhood and therefore is a natural enemy of the military that ousted Mohammed Morsi two weeks ago. Hams has denied Egyptian military statements that its soldiers jailed 32 Hamas terrorists and arrested dozens others in the Sinai Peninsula last week. Hamas figuratively shot itself in the head last August when it mounted a severe attack on the Egyptian army, killing 16 soldiers near Rafiah in a multi-pronged attack that was intended to continue into Israel but was foiled at the last minute by the IDF. Ever since, Hamas has been an undeclared enemy, and even the Morsi regime was suspicious of it. The Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority also is benefiting from Hamas’ miseries but is suppressing its joy because Hamas has widespread support among Arabs in Judea and Samaria who are fed up with chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Any moves by the Secretary of State Kerry to win some kind of a forum between Israeli and Palestinian Authority are a useless exercise without the inclusion of Gaza. Another fallout of the offensive against Hamas might be negative for Israel in the near-term. “The motivation of Hamas and jihadi elements from Sinai to launch attacks against Israel is increasing,” INSS thinks.
Hamas is on the run. Virtually boycotted by Abbas, hated by Assad and distrusted by Iran and a diagnosed by Israel as a cancer, Egypt reportedly has killed 30 Hamas terrorists in the Sinai.
Egypt’s interim government has named economist Hazem el-Beblawi as the prime minister, the post that was supposed to taken over by Mohamed ElBaradei until Salafist Muslims vehemently objected because of his liberal and secular views. The Salafist Al Nour party agreed to the appointment of el-Beblawi, and the interim regime also appointed ElBaradei as vice […]
By JTA
The London-based Al-Sharq Al-Awasat newspaper reported Tuesday that armed terror cells affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as Hamas and al-Qaeda, are poised to attack Israeli-Arabs as part of a plan to damage Sinai’s tourism industry. The report quotes an unnamed “Israeli defense source,” according to Ynet. “The attacks will target Israeli citizens in […]
While the government lawyers are looking into the matter, the hands on the US aid spigot will ignore the "c" (coup) word, and U.S. aid to Egypt will continue flowing.
The political violence is turning into a religious war - if it wasn't one already/
Violence in the streets underscores the irreparable rift that is turning Egypt into Syria.
By Shalom Bear
At least one Egyptian soldier was killed and two wounded; tension before Friday prayers in the mosques, mass pro-Morsi rallies anticipated.
The US State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki could not confirm if a military coup is currently underway in Egypt .
Mixing Western democracy with Egyptian Islamists is a recipe with a smell of civil war. Reason and logic are under house arrest. If the army takes over, it can thank the US for training it soldiers.
The Egyptian army military announced on Tuesday it will establish an interim regime if Mohammed Morsi cannot come to an agreement with opposition forces by Wednesday night, a virtual impossibility. The army insisted it is not intending to rule the country, but in effect it plans to unilaterally dissolve the legislature and appoint Egypt’s chief […]
Egypt may be on the brink of another temporary military regime or civil war. The army told Morsi to make peace with the opposition within 48 hours or face a military “roadmap.”
Jihadist terrorists fired a Grad missile in the Sinai Tuesday, causing no injuries or damage. Egyptian sources said that attack was a warm-up for Sunday when widespread violence is expected in massive demonstrations against the Muslim Brotherhood government of Mohammed Morsi. His defense minister warned that the army will intervene is the protests turn violent on […]
By Barry Rubin
Is there no one who remembers this recent history?
Egypt has deployed helicopters to patrol the Sinai Peninsula and has declared a state of alert in the area after radical Islamic terrorists from Gaza set up a base in the central Sinai. Curfews were clamped on Sinai cities, including the Egyptian side of Rafiah and el-Arish, according to the Bethlehem-based Ma'an news agency. Approximately […]
By Barry Rubin
The weapons will be given to people whose politics encompass hatred for Jews, Christians, the West generally, and Women.
By Barry Rubin
Do you want to arm the Syrian rebels so they can establish another Sharia state?
You find the rats when the ship sinks. The Iranian dictatorship used to love the Hamas dictatorship until Hamas opposed the Assad dictatorship. Hamas asks, “How could Ahmadinejad support a dictator?”
By Barry Rubin
If billions of dollars have not bought PA support for a two-state solution in 20 years why should anything change now?
Egypt is like a car with ninety million problems, and to describe it as a 'total loss' is to understate the situation.
The Muslim Brotherhood government of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi is moving tanks and heavy arms towards the northern Sinai towards possible all-out battle with a gang that kidnapped seven Egyptian security personnel four days ago. Morsi has ruled out negotiating, saying there was "no room for dialogue with the criminals.” and that his government would […]
We must confront Islamist groups with what Prime Minister David Cameron referred to as “muscular liberalism.”
Al-Qaradawi's visit and statements also serve as a reminder that the Israeli-Arab conflict is centered, more than ever, around religion.
The Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt, headed by President Mohammed Morsi, is set to issue “Islamic bonds,” not to be confused with the highly successful Israeli bonds that helped the Jewish state get off it feet after its re-establishment in 1948. Unlike Israel, modern Egypt has been around for a long time, but the Arab […]
Bombing Syria’s chemical weapons would cause a humanitarian disaster. No one wants to hit Assad and end up with Al Qaeda. There’s no diplomatic way out without Russia, an expert tells the Jewish Press.
By Barry Rubin
In other words, to speak in English in Washington to make the Americans happy is one thing; to do things in practice is something else entirely.
By Barry Rubin
Whatever happens, there will be a Muslim Brotherhood regime in Syria and Obama will support it.
Peres, the pope and the word “peace’" are virtually interchangeable. All three of them get together next week to try to resurrect the peace process. And don’t forget Kerry is a Catholic more or less.
By Barry Rubin
Why are government officials, politicians, army officers, academics and journalists afraid to point out the truth?
By Barry Rubin
The works and the moderate individuals exist but they are not given support, even in Western countries, nor do they have the resources to wage the battle.
By Daniel Pipes
The Egyptian publication Al-Masry Al-Youm reports that the U.S. government has supplied five containers carrying 140,000 teargas canisters to Egypt's Interior Ministry. It further reports that this shipment left Wilmington, Delaware, on Mar. 14 aboard the SS Jamestown and that it has just arrived the port of Suez. They cost the Egyptian government just under US$2.5 million. According to ministry spokesperson […]
By Barry Rubin
What can the Copts do except resign themselves to continued persecution?
The European Union still refuses to place the Islamic terrorist group Hezb'allah on its official terrorist list; were it to do so, that would likely have a substantial impact on the group's ability to conduct its global terrorism activities.
Radical Islamist ideology must be analyzed and challenged or the fight against terrorism wil have no end.
Jordanian-Palestinian activist Mudar Zahran says King Abdullah is seeking to save Himself by colluding with Islamists, Iran and Assad
By Barry Rubin
A situation is being set up in which a future Muslim Brotherhood regime in Syria can blackmail the United States.
Criticizing terror as a means while approving of its ends leads to absurdity.
By Barry Rubin
A country of 85 million people and which is heavily armed is burning with anarchy and violence is threatening genocide against a neighbor. Might this be a matter of concern?
By J. E. Dyer
Based on the Associated Press's definition, whom exactly can a reporter call an Islamist?
The conflict between the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood and its allies and the self-described Alawites is the rupture in "broken" Syria – and it is not new.
By JTA
The link was from Al Jazeera featuring former CNN host Rick Sanchez on Jews and Stewart.
By Barry Rubin
Ignoring Abdullah's warnings, it seems the Obama administration has backed an Islamist candidate to lead the Syrian opposition.
By Barry Rubin
Why help put into power and then favor people who hate you, lie about you, and want to destroy you? What is the pay-off?
By Barry Rubin
Despite the current policy's serious problems and visibly dangerous outcomes there is no major debate it.
Salafists are frequently refered to in relation to Islamist terror. It is a slippery descriptor that is sometimes used in contradictory ways.
The Muslim Brotherhood regime is ignoring the “systematic” destruction of Antonopoulos, one of Egypt’s biggest archaeological sites, the Egypt Independent reported Monday. Monica Hanna, a researcher with the University of Humboldt in Berlin, told the newspaper that information she received from archaeologists working at the site, also known as Sheikh Abada, revealed that bulldozers have […]
By Barry Rubin
The Egyptian regime doesn't want a war or even a high level of conflict at this time.
By Barry Rubin
We are going to be told often in the next two months that things are going to get better in Egypt. It's likely that they are going to get worse.
The American foreign policy error was to assume that the political grievances of the Arab Street could be appeased with democracy.
No, I'm not laughing...but come on, locusts? Egypt? Just before Passover?
By Barry Rubin
What the Obama Administration has done is like trying to reduce crime by turning over the cities to the Mafia and letting it make the laws and also run the police and court systems.
The Muslim Brotherhood has won its reward for driving the Egyptian into the ground - $190 million in immediate aide from the US n return for promises of reforms it promised t carry out a year ago.
By Barry Rubin
Pretending there’s no elephant in the world doesn’t protect anyone from getting trampled.
An Egyptian court Tuesday threw out a lawsuit to cancel the 1979 peace treaty with Israel, but the ruling left an opening for breaking the pact. It ruled that the court simply has no jurisdiction over the issue, which it said involves state sovereignty. The suit claimed that Israel is violating the treaty and UN […]
By Barry Rubin
This is all a tragedy for the poor victims in the Middle East and a farce for the well-paid, much-honored careerist opportunists and ideologues in the West.
By Barry Rubin
Obama went to sleep and he has yet to wake up. And there's graphic proof for that assertion in the streets of Benghazi today.
Egypt is flooding Gaza smuggling tunnels, choking off one of Hamas’ biggest sources for money and placing a virtual siege far more severe than Israel ever created.
Locusts, 10 Plagues, Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood, Bible, Passover, agriculture,
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.
Dubai Police Chief has recently attempted to discredit the Brotherhood by alleging a nefarious allegiance to Israel and Jews.
The U.S. State Department appears to be coordinating recruitment efforts with groups reportedly associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
By Barry Rubin
The left has sided with the reactionaries and against their comrades in other countries because they hate their own countries’ systems more.
By Daniel Pipes
Middle East expert Daniel Pipes appeared on the 'Cross Talk' program to argue that the West should use its influence to oppose Islamism instead of supporting it.
Brennan is 100 percent on board with the Obama policy that our enemies consist only of 'al-Qaeda and its extremist allies.'
By Barry Rubin
The US government will provide arms, money, and diplomatic support to a regime whose ruling forces openly evince hysterical antisemitism and call for genocide against Israel.
By Barry Rubin
An organization that can seize about 1,000 hostages in the middle of Algeria, a country whose regime has been so tough on radical Islamists, is not dead.
What is the Obama Administration doing in the face of the imminent collapse of the largest and historically most important and powerful state in the Arab world, now ruled by an anti-Western and anti-Semitic radical Islamic regime?
As if you needed proof that the new Egypt is an enemy lying in wait.
The leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood top the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of top ten anti-Semites of the year.
By JTA
A Muslim Brotherhood official called on Egyptian Jews to return to Egypt and leave Israel to the Palestinians.
By Barry Rubin
The problem nowadays is that an insane interpretation of international affairs seems to be a quality defining who 'the best people are.'
By Barry Rubin
In the Middle East, secular movements are more poorly funded and more naïve about how to operate politically than the Islamists.
By Barry Rubin
What happens, then, if the regime doesn’t give in and the army doesn’t stop the demonstrations?
Chants of "Down with the Muslim Brotherhood" echoed at the scene.
By Amin Farouk
The genie will be let out according to the strategic needs of Sunni Islam.
The constitution, as important as it may be, is not a cure for the genetic illnesses of the states of the Middle East.
By Daniel Pipes
Ideologues are dictators on steroids who don't moderate upon reaching power but dig themselves in.
The Salafi political victories, militia victories and terror attacks are all part of the same phenomenon, and it is about time that we confronted it for what it is.
Dealing with the material needs of the Egyptian people is not high on Morsi's agenda.
September 4, 2026 
