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| November 21, 2012
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Egypt intercepts 108 explosive warheads from Libya via Sinai & onto Gaza

Egyptian security officials confiscated trucks carrying a variety of small-arms ammunition and 108 explosive warheads for Soviet-designed Grad rockets, that were smuggled from Libya.

By the Associated Press and Israel Hayom Staff

 

Egyptian security officials said Wednesday that authorities have confiscated trucks carrying explosive warheads and a variety of small-arms ammunition smuggled from Libya.

Grad rockets are fired at Israel by Palestinian and Sinai-based terrorist groups. [Illustrative] – Photo: Reuters

They said authorities seized the pickup trucks, carrying some 108 warheads for Soviet-designed Grad rockets, near Marsa Matruh, 430 kilometers (270 miles) northwest of Cairo on the Mediterranean coast.

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| November 16, 2012
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Morsi threatens: Israel will pay heavy price

 

Egyptian president vows that his country will ‘stop this brutal aggression’ against Gaza, threatening: ‘If I see the homeland in danger, I won’t hesitate to take unusual steps.’ 

By Roi Kais

 

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi sharpened his tone against Israel on Friday, while Palestinian terrorists continued to fire rockets into southern Israel and Tel Aviv.

Morsi. Threats Photo: AFP

Morsi. – Photo: AFP

After concluding the Friday prayer at a mosque in Cairo, Morsi warned Israel of the consequences of its strikes in Gaza. According to the al-Shorouk newspaper, Morsi tweeted on his Twitter page: “We have the power to uproot the aggressiveness just like it uprooted exploitation. Continue Reading »

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| November 15, 2012
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Report: Israel’s Ambassador to Egypt Summoned to Jerusalem

Egyptian media reports that Israeli ambassador Yaakov Amitai has left Cairo after being recalled by the foreign ministry.

By Elad Benari

 

Israeli ambassador to Egypt, Yaakov Amitai, reportedly left Cairo on Wednesday night, the website of the Egyptian Al-Ahram newspaper reported.

Sources at the Cairo International Airport told the newspaper that Amitai left on a Jordanian Airlines flight.

Amitai, who has been Israeli ambassador to Egypt since December 2011, was summoned earlier by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, which sought to convey the Egyptian authorities’ condemnation of the Israeli air raids on Gaza.

At the same time, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi recalled the Egyptian ambassador to Israel, Atef Mohamed Salem, in a move of protest against Israel. Continue Reading »

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| November 15, 2012
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Watch IDF Aerial Clip of Hit – Egypt Recalls Ambassador

Morsi recalls Egyptian ambassador from Israel, urges UN Security Council to hold emergency meeting

 Iran: Assassination another sign of ‘Zionist regime’s barbarity’

By Roi Kais

 

Egypt has recalled its ambassador in Israel, Yasser Ridha, following the assassination of top Hamas military commander Ahmed Jabari, Egyptian TV reported Wednesday. It is still unclear whether the envoy is being called back for consultations or for a longer period. Earlier on Wednesday, Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr condemned Israel’s airstrikes in Gaza remarking that “the Israeli escalation comes at a critical point in the Middle East which threatens to harshly exacerbate matters.” Continue Reading »

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| November 13, 2012
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Egypt warns Hamas: We will not intervene if the violence continues

Egypt apparently sent message to Hamas to cease the rocket fire on civilians

Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin: Israel takes Egypt’s reaction into consideration over any ground operation in the Gaza Strip

10 Egyptian political parties sign protest against Israel’s actions in Gaza.

By Israel Hayom Staff, Shlomo Cesana, Gadi Golan, Daniel Siryoti & Lilach Shoval

 

Egypt has told Hamas it will not intervene on its behalf if the current wave of violence on the Gaza-Israeli border continues, a senior Egyptian official told Israel Hayom on Monday night.

While not explicitly calling for a cease-fire, the statement appears to be a message from Egypt to Hamas to stop the rocket fire.

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| November 2, 2012
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Essay: How Egyptian legal system saved Camp David

Camp David agreement has become the focal point of a political struggle between Egyptian critics since Morsi’s election as president in June

 

 

Why did the Cairo Administrative Court dismiss a lawsuit calling for the 1978 Camp David peace accords between Egypt and Israel to be annulled?The case, reported by The Jerusalem Post on Thursday, put Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi in the uncomfortable position of having to affirmatively defend the Camp David accords, as opposed to merely tolerating them.

Mohamed Morsi - Photo: Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters

Mohamed Morsi – Photo: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters

Three members of the Revolutionary Youth Union, a movement which says it encompasses all political parties, national movements and independent NGOs, filed the lawsuit in August against Morsi, Prime Minister Hisham Qandil and Foreign Minister Mohammed Amr. Continue Reading »

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| October 31, 2012
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Egyptian Court Rejects Petition to Nullify Egypt’s Peace Treaty with Israel

Israel Radio reported that the court in Cairo decreed it lacks the authority to rule on matters of Egyptian sovereignty, saying only the president could make such decisions.

By Israel Hayom Staff

 

A court that deals with administrative issues in Cairo rejected a petition to cancel the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel on Tuesday, according to a report by Israel Radio.

Anwar Sadat, Jimmy Carter and Menachem Begin clasp hands on the North Lawn of the White House after signing the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty on March 26, 1979. – Photo: AP

The court reportedly ruled that it does not have the legal right to decide on the treaty as it is a matter of sovereignty rather than legality.

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| October 27, 2012
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Call to ‘Free Al Aqsa’ Sounded at News Conference in Cairo

News conference participants at Diplomatic Committee of the Egyptian Bar Association promise that Muslim liberation of Jerusalem will come in this generation.

By Gil Ronen

 

Egyptian jurists and politicians have issued calls to “liberate” the Al Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount, and to restore Egypt’s leading role in the Arab world.

Participants in a news conference in Cairo on October 25 said that the “liberation” of Jerusalem by Muslims will be accomplished “without a doubt” by the present generation, which brought about the change in Arab regimes, and that the peace treaty with Israel was just an act of deception that led to the “loss of the homeland.” Continue Reading »

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| September 29, 2012
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Muslim Brotherhood says it will not meet with Israel

Brotherhood official says that they support Palestinian statehood bid & progress must first be made prior to any official meeting with Israel.

By Roi Kais

 

Two days after Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi spoke before the UN General Assembly and urged action on the Palestinian statehood bid, the Muslim Brotherhood stated that until a breakthrough is made in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, senior Egyptian officials will not meet with their Israeli counterparts.

Morsi at the UN Photo: AP

Morsi at the UN – Photo: AP

Secretary General of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo Mahmoud Hussein told the Egyptian daily Al-Masri Al-Youm Friday that “Any meeting between the two countries’ top officials prior to the full restoration of the Palestinian people’s rights is a reproachable ideological luxury.” Continue Reading »

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| September 26, 2012
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Morsi’s debut speech to UN: End Israeli occupation

In his first address before General Assembly, Egyptian president committed to treaties and urges int’l community to work toward establishing Palestinian state & ‘changing identity of occupied Jerusalem.’

Yitzhak Benhorin

 

NEW YORK – Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi on Wednesday urged the international community to work immediately toward the establishment of an independent Palestinian state within “all the occupied territories.”

In a belligerent debut speech before the UN General Assembly, Egypt‘s first democratically-elected president called for immediate progress that would “put an end to the colonialism and the settlements and change the identity of occupied Jerusalem.”

Three months after winning the general elections as the candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood movement, Morsi told the UN, “I am the first Egyptian president who was elected in a democratic vote at the end of the revolution.” Continue Reading »

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| September 23, 2012
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Israel’s FM Rejects any Amendments to Peace Treaty with Egypt

Foreign Minister Lieberman dismissed any possibility of modifications to Israel’s 1979 peace treaty with Egypt.

By Chana Ya’ar and AFP

 

Israel has rejected the idea of any modification to its 1979 peace treaty with Egypt.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman dismissed any possibility of altering the treaty during a radio interview in Israel Sunday morning. “There is not the slightest possibility that Israel will accept the modification of the peace treaty with Israel,” he said, according to AFP. “We will not accept any modification of the Camp David Accords.

The comments came as tensions rise between Egypt and Israel, with speculation the government of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-backed President Mohammed Morsi is considering a plan to alter parts of the treaty. Continue Reading »

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