by Moshe Phillips The spotlight on Middle East regimes in transition has left Tunisia and Egypt behind for the most part and zeroed in on Libya. I believe that it is worthwhile however to examine one of the early images of the revolt against the rule of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. The fact that it was a complex amalgam of forces that joined together in the streets of Tunis was brought home to me in a photo (above) in the January 25, 2011 issue of The Philadelphia Inquirer.
by Rabbi Ahron Lopiansky My dear child, It is now a quiet moment late at night. After an exhausting day of Passover cleaning, you have sunk into the sweetest of sleeps, and I am sitting here with a pile of haggadas, preparing for Seder night. Somehow the words never come out the way I want them to, and the Seder evening is always unpredictable. But so many thoughts and feelings are welling up in my mind and I want to share them with you. These are the words I mean to say at the Seder. When you will see me…
Arriving with Biblically resonant timing, latest arrivals are ready to reproduce By Aaron Kalman A day before Passover, farmers in southern Israel were suffering from another plague of locusts, entering the country from Egypt with biblical timing. The pests hit fields and greenhouses in the south; the Agriculture Ministry was working to prevent heavy damage to crops in the Negev and stop the insects from penetrating deeper into the country. Unlike previous swarms that have entered Israel in the past month, the locusts that hit Israel Sunday are yellow and fertile and, in this stage of their metamorphosis, pose less…
Israeli Experts Weigh In By Anav Silverman Tazpit News Agency There's been a flurry of speculation surrounding America’s transfer of F-16s to Egypt both in Israel and the United States. This past Sunday, Egypt and the United States held a joint ceremony marking the delivery of four new F-16 aircraft to the Egyptian Air Force, despite objections from Republican Senator, Rand Paul who attempted to pass an amendment banning weapon sales to Egypt which the Senate voted down. U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, Anne Patterson noted that “…a strong Egypt is in the interest of the U.S., the region, and the…
(credit: JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images) Follow WNEW's Election Watch 2012 Coverage Here »More Political NewsTEL AVIV, Israel (CBSDC/AP) – Israeli Arabs protest outside the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv Thursday following the attacks on U.S. compounds in Libya, Egypt and Yemen. The Times of Israel reports about 100 peaceful demonstrators marched outside the embassy to protest the anti-Islam movie which mocks the prophet Muhammad. A radical group called the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement led the demonstration, according to the Times of Israel. A top Israeli Arab Knesset official warned of “Armageddon” if the United Nations does not intervene.
CAIRO — Egypt has again allowed an Iranian Navy ship to pass the Suez Canal toward Syria. A senior official said the Egyptian Navy approved the passage of an Iranian ship loaded with weapons to move from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea The Iranian Navy frigate IS Alvand passes through the Suez Canal at Ismailia, Egypt, on Feb. 22. The frigate, accompanied by the replenishment ship IS Kharg, entered the Suez Canal en route to Syria. /AP The official said Egypt dismissed a request by the United States to stop the Iranian ship at the canal.
Photo: Mohamed Abd El Ghany / Reuters By YAAKOV LAPPIN Former Military Intelligence Chief Amos Yadlin says Israel should allow Egypt's Sinai military boost for counter-terrorism. Former Military Intelligence chief Amos Yadlin said Wednesday that Egypt’s deployment of tanks to Sinai should not be a worry for Israel so long as Egypt cracks down on terrorist groups operating in the peninsula. “Terrorism is fought with tanks,” Yadlin, currently head of Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies, told Army Radio during an interview.
by Raymond Ibrahim According to several reports in the Arabic media, prominent Muslim clerics have begun to call for the demolition of Egypt’s Great Pyramids—or, in the words of Saudi Sheikh Ali bin Said al-Rabi‘i, those “symbols of paganism,” which Egypt’s Salafi party has long planned to cover with wax. Most recently, Bahrain’s “Sheikh of Sunni Sheikhs” and President of National Unity, Abd al-Latif al-Mahmoud, called on Egypt’s new president, Muhammad Morsi, to “destroy the Pyramids and accomplish what the Sahabi Amr bin al-As could not.” This is a reference to the Muslim Prophet Muhammad’s companion, Amr bin al-As and…
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