BY EMET REPORT A Facebook page created by anonymous people is calling on Palestinians to take part in mass protest against Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Friday. The page, titled Honor Revolution (Thauret al-Karama in Arabic), urges Gazans to take to the street after Muslim Friday prayers to topple the de-facto government of the…
BY YNETNEWS.COM A top Egyptian minister accused the United States Wednesday of imposing its “will” on its Arab ally, even as the White House warned Cairo had fallen short of a “minimum threshold” for reform. Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit lashed out in a television interview on a day when Washington also stiffened its…
BY HOWARD LAFRANCHI, CSMONTIOR— The Obama administration is trying to maintain the balancing act it has pursued in Egypt, between political transition and stability, but a shaking tightrope — events on the ground — is raising questions about whether the current approach is tenable. A growing number of voices in the foreign policy community, find…
BY DAVID ISAAC, SHMUELKATZ.COM “Notwithstanding all internal feuds, rivalries, even mutual bloodletting, that have always marked inter-Arab relations, notwithstanding differences in nuances and in tactics, the destruction of the Jewish State remains the common ambition of all the Arab states.” — Shmuel Katz, (“Mutuality of Interests” (The Jerusalem Post, Aug. 26, 1983) “At the moment,…
BY ISRAEL TODAY— The number of legal abortions performed in Israel dropped by 19 percent in recent years, according to statistics published by the Health Ministry. Since its rebirth as a nation state nearly 63 years ago, an average of 40,000 Israeli babies have been lost to abortion every year. That’s well over two million…