Tag: Egypt
Meeting with Rouhani at UN unlikely, says Trump
As U.S. President Donald Trump left the White House on Sunday for the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York on Tuesday, he expressed doubt that a meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani would...
Egyptian, Jordanian leaders meet ahead of Kushner’s arrival in the region
Jordan’s King Abdullah and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi met in Cairo just days before the arrival of an U.S. team in the region to discuss the Trump administration’s proposed Mideast peace plan.
According to...
In humiliating blow, Egypt prevents Hamas leader from leaving Gaza Strip
Egypt is preventing Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh from setting out on a fundraising trip to several countries, chief among them Iran, Gaza media reported on Tuesday.
Hamas’s official mouthpiece in the Gaza Strip, Al-Risala, claimed that...
Mohamed Morsi and the dangerous lessons of the Arab Spring
His death, like much of his life, was in service to the Islamist cause he championed. By dropping dead in a courtroom where he was caged and silenced, Mohammed Morsi served to bring attention...
Former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi dead at 67
Former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi died on Monday at the age of 67 after passing out during a court session.
The Muslim Brotherhood member led Egypt from 2012, following the ouster of longtime head Hosni...
![Flag of the Muslim Brotherhood [File photo]](https://jewishwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Jordans-Muslim-brotherhood-324x235.jpg "The Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamophobia trap")
The Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamophobia trap
As far as administration critics are concerned, U.S. President Donald Trump is about to do it again.
His plans to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group has the foreign-policy establishment wringing their hands...
Regional power clash? Egypt and Iran vie for influence in Gaza
At the start of April, Hebrew media reports quoted unnamed Israeli security officials as saying that the Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror faction, whose rocket arsenal is larger than even that of Hamas, was...
Egypt cleans and removes slums near 1,200-year-old Jewish cemetery
In response to requests from the international Jewish community, Egypt has started eliminating slums near Bassatine Cemetery, in the eastern part of the second-oldest Jewish cemetery on earth, according to those in Cairo and...
Why is Egypt intent on restoring Jewish heritage sites in a country devoid of...
The government of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi recently announced a multimillion-dollar initiative to restore Jewish heritage sites throughout the country. Soon afterwards, the government backtracked, probably due to a public backlash.
“The Egyptian ministry...
The next region of conflict: Eastern Mediterranean
Attention in Israel has been focused of late on Iran’s emissaries on our northern and southern borders, but the fifth tripartite meeting between Israel, Greece and Cyprus, to be held today in Beersheva, is...