All Entries Tagged With: "Egypt"
The Day In Israel: Tues Oct 27th, 2009
Channel 10 reported that a summit of Mediterranean states planned to be held in Turkey in November was canceled after Egypt and other Arab states refused to sit round the same table as Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.
I don’t know about you, but I feel that giving back the Sinai really paid dividends.
Updates (Israel time; [...]
The Day In Israel: Wed Oct 14th, 2009
The palestinians have succeeded in gathering enough support to call a special UNHRC meeting to reopen the debate about alleged war crimes in Gaza later this week.
And by alleged war crimes, I am referring to alleged war crimes by Israel. No-one is interested in discussing Hamas’ actions.
UN officials say 18 of the council’s 47 members [...]
The Day In Israel: Sun Sept 27th, 2009
In the wake of evidence being presented of a clandestine Iranian nuclear facility, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the US House Speaker, as well as Senators and Congress members that now is the time to act against Iran.
“If not now, then when,” Netanyahu reportedly said in the conversations with American officials. “Action must be [...]
The Day In Israel: Wed Sept 23rd, 2009
It looks like Obama has adopted the annoyed schoolteacher approach to peacemaking,
US President Barack Obama told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday that he was dissatisfied with their recent foot-dragging on getting Israeli-Palestinian talks restarted.
A senior White House source yesterday told Haaretz that “during the tripartite meeting Obama strongly expressed [...]
Continuing the Charade
The Jerusalem Post reports:
Gaza gunmen fired at IDF soldiers patrolling the security fence near the Sufa crossing late Monday afternoon, seemingly refuting reports of a 24-hour ceasefire.
I dunno. It sounds exactly like the kind of “ceasefire” we have been experiencing for the last few months.
Meanwhile, Egypt’s Foreign Ministry flatly denied reports it had asked Hamas [...]
Al-Azhar Sheikh Gets Jew Cooties
From the Middle East Times:
Al-Sharq (QATAR): Azhar Sheikh’s Handshake With Peres Sparks Crisis in Egypt Parliament – The Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc in Egypt Thursday denounced the handshake between the top cleric of al-Azhar, Sheikh Mohammed Tantawi, and Israeli President Shimon Peres during a U.N. General Assembly interfaith meeting in New York this month. The [...]
Egyptian Sex News
Two interesting stories out of Egypt this week, and both of them have tenuous connections to Jews and Israel.
In the first, a wife-swapping club was found in Egypt:
Egyptians have reacted with shock at the country’s first known case of wife-swap involving married couples.
Earlier this week, police arrested the couple, using the pseudonyms Magdy and Samira, [...]
It’s Not the Occupation, Stupid!
At Islam Online, Hisham Al-Masry (not his real name) speaks of his encounter with an Israeli girl in Denmark.
I was outside setting on the coach enjoying the great view of Vallekilde when a girl with a long dark curly hair showed up, she looked at me, I saw the sadness in her eyes, and I [...]
Today’s Kidnapping in Egypt
Barely a week after Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned Israelis against travelling to Sinai, a number of tourists and Egyptians have been kidnapped from southern Egypt and taken to Sudan, by a group I assume is not of the Buddhist persuasion.
Initial reports indicated that some Israelis were also kidnapped, but thankfully this does not [...]
Blair Witch In-Law
I am sure you are already aware of the fact that Tony Blair’s sister-in-law Lauren Booth is stuck in Gaza. She has certainly raised enough of a stink about it, and the mainstream media are more than willing to publish her complaints.
What really interests me about this story is not the fact this woman is [...]
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