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Israel Reopens Cairo Embassy 4 Years After Protesters’ Siege

NEW YORK TIMES by Jared Malsin September 9, 2015 Israel reopened an embassy in Cairo on Wednesday, four years to the day after the previous embassy was stormed by demonstrators during the aftermath of the popular uprising that ousted President … Continue reading

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The Fiction of Political Islam

GATESTONE by Bassam Tawil September 2, 2015 To this day, the Obama administration mourns the fall of Egypt’s Islamist President Morsi, and turns a cold shoulder to forward-looking President el-Sisi, who is (sometimes) trying to take Egypt into the 21st … Continue reading

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While women overseas face true oppression, Western feminists dream up petty hashtags

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH by Christina Hoff Sommers August 25, 2015 In August 2014, 12 members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard charged into 28-year-old artist Atena Farghadani’s house, blindfolded her, and took her to prison. She had posted a satirical cartoon on Facebook … Continue reading

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Israel’s enemies already know they will lose

JERUSALEM POST by Yishai Fleisher July 20, 2015 If their goal to limit all of our strikes to a mere “proportional response” – we must hit them with overwhelming force which leaves no one guessing as to who is the … Continue reading

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Egyptian TV stages mock Israeli ‘execution’ in sick Ramadan prank

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Judah Ari Gross June 30, 2015 In a vile prank conducted by an Egyptian television station, a well-known Syrian singer was taken on a pleasure cruise off the Egyptian coast, and then arrested by purported Israeli … Continue reading

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In new Egyptian Ramadan drama, Jews are the good guys

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Elhanan Miller June 4, 2015 In change of tone that reflects current anti-Brotherhood zeitgeist, soap opera ‘Jewish Quarter’ longs for the days when Jews, Muslims and Christians lived together harmoniously in Cairo Egyptian soap operas, produced … Continue reading

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Egyptian Historian: Normalize Relations With Israel, Ditch Palestinian Cause

ALGEMEINER JNS.ORG June 2, 2015 Prominent Egyptian historian Maged Farag has called for his country to normalize relations with Israel and to ditch support for the Palestinian cause, which he said has caused “nothing but harm” for Egypt. According to a report … Continue reading

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The new government’s greatest tasks

JERUSALEM POST by Caroline Glick April 24, 2015 ….In about a week, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s new government will be sworn in. The new government will have no grace period before it will be called upon to forge and implement … Continue reading

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Popular Egyptian TV host urges Israel to attack Iran

HOT AIR by Noah Rothman April 16, 2015 The Obama administration has so effectively alienated the Arab World’s Sunni Muslim regimes in states like Egypt and Saudi Arabia that they are turning to Israel to see their interests looked after. … Continue reading

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Obama Lifts Freeze on Egyptian Weapon Sales

DEFENSE NEWS by Aaron Mehta March 31, 2015 The White House lifted an executive hold on weapon sales to Egypt Tuesday, as part of a broader attempt to “modernize” the military relationship between the two countries. President Obama informed Egyptian … Continue reading

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