The Egyptian parliament may vote on a measure that would cut $1 billion in U.S. foreign assistance. A resolution was introduced in parliament on Sunday, The Associated Press reported. The vote, which would be largely symbolic, reflects the growing tensions...
Thousands of Egyptians gathered in Tahrir Square in Cairo to mark the first anniversary of the uprising that led to the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak. Liberal and Islamist protesters gathered in groups on opposite sides of the square, according to...
JERUSALEM—The fundamentalist Islamic political party the Muslim Brotherhood won 47 percent of the seats in the new Egyptian Parliament. An alliance of ultraconservative Islamist parties, the Salafi Al-Nour, also won 25 percent of the vote in the first...
By Robert Wistrich, JTA
• Published January 18, 2012
JERUSALEM—The Muslim Brotherhood did not initiate the current upheavals in the Middle East, but the Islamist parties in Egypt, as in Tunisia and Libya, have been the chief beneficiaries of the collapse of longstanding authoritarian repressive regimes...
By Joshua Mitnick, N.Y. Jewish Week, Tel Aviv
• Published December 7, 2011
Israelis are watching elections in Egypt with the same ambivalence they have viewed the Arab Spring: historic images of Egyptians casting ballots for the first time were accompanied by troubling commentary by officials and analysts that the election is...
One would think that the terrorist group Hamas could never appear to be relatively "moderate" or more accurately less extreme than other factions in the Gaza Strip. But the recent murder of pro-Palestinian Hamas supporter and Italian activist Vittorio...
