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Quote of the Day

“What are you doing bringing me this weird guy?”
- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to former Egyptian Ambassador to Israel Mohammed Bassiouni, after the latter brought Shas’ spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef to meet Mubarak

Egypt Has Killed 6 Africans This Year Trying to Reach Israel

3 men – and 3 women – paying the ultimate price.
But who cares – Arabs killing civilians isn’t news! There are no UN observers or holidays dedicated to the plight of these people, no people protesting how they are treated by Egypt, none of the lobbyists and very few bleeding heart liberals who care enough [...]

Egyptians Find TNT in a Rafah Cemetery

M&C reports:
Egyptian security forces found a cache of explosives near the border with the Gaza Strip in the Sinai peninsula, security sources said Tuesday. The cache, which contained 250 kilos of TNT, was found in a secret depot in Masura in Rafah, three kilometres from Egypt’s border with the Gaza Strip.
Palestine Press Agency adds that [...]

Not a Cold Peace; Just Cold

Egyptian foreign minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit has criticized Hamas for firing rockets at Israel.
Because they haven’t actually hurt anyone.
The Egyptian foreign ministry on Thursday criticized Hamas for its “cartoonish and comical” attacks on Israel and reiterated his warning to Palestinians not to provoke the Egyptian soldiers positioned on the Gaza Strip border.
Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul [...]

Zionists Promoting Lesbianism in Egypt!

From Al-Arabiya:
Religious scholars in Egypt are outraged by a lesbian scene in a new movie, telling audiences to stay away from the sinful flick and calling for the director and actresses to be prosecuted.
Preacher and Islamic Studies professor at Cairo University, Dr. Abdel-Sabour Shahin accused the new movie, Hina Maysara (Until Further Notice), of spreading [...]

Egypt to Israel: Screw You

The Egyptians, deeply offended by Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni’s recent accusation that they are doing a ‘terrible’ job of securing the border, have shown just what a good job they are doing – by allowing hundreds of palestinian pilgrims (including terrorists) through the border, contrary to understandings between Israel and Egypt.
That’ll prove Livni wrong.
Hundreds [...]

Little Pharaoh

News from across the border:
An Egyptian man has been charged with fatally stabbing his wife on their wedding night when he decided she was not a virgin.
Ibrahim Ali and Hoda Salem were married in the village of Al-Quba in the Nile Delta. On their wedding night, residents heard Salem screaming and found her on [...]

Mo’ Hammered

Meet the Egyptian version of the Hatfields and McCoys.
Two families in the Upper Egyptian Qena province decided to settle a feud with blades, but no lives were lost in the cutting that followed.
Instead a family in Mahrousa village in western Qena held hostage a member of its rival family, shaved his moustache, beard, hair and [...]

Great News

Egyptian blogger Alaa has been freed, after being detained last month by Egyptian police while demonstrating peacefully.
According to Sandmonkey, he endured quite an ordeal, being abused and beaten. But it was the power of the people which helped secure his release.
Congratulations, Alaa!

Someone’s Telling Porky Pies

The Egyptian Foreign Minister has claimed that he spoke repeatedly with his Danish counterpart, advising him on how to avert the “cartoon crisis” – advice he says went unheeded.
 
The Danish Foreign Minister has replied with: Liar liar, pants embassy on fire.

The Danish government ignored several offers from Egypt to help it avoid a full-blown crisis over cartoons [...]