Egypt

Interim analysis - Israel and Gaza; Sinai and Egypt

As Egypt tries to broker a ceasefire between Israel, Hamas and armed groups in Gaza, JNews takes a look at implications for the players

Sunday, 21 August, 2011 - 15:56
London, UK

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Egypt withdraws ambassador from Israel over officers' deaths

Death toll in Gaza up to 15 as Israeli air-force strikes civilian targets, militants. AlQassam Brigades announces ‘end to truce’; PRC denies involvement in Eilat attacks.

Saturday, 20 August, 2011 - 10:34
London, UK
Source: 
Various

Egypt has declared its decision to recall its ambassador to Israel following the killing of several Central Security Force officers near the Egypt-Israel border on Thursday.

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Rafah Crossing restrictions to be eased over the weekend

Friday, 27 May, 2011 - 10:22
London, UK
Source: 
Maan, Gisha, Haaretz, EU, EEAS

Egypt’s transitional authorities announced on Thursday that they will ease conditions for entry of Palestinians from Gaza into Egypt via Rafah Crossing, as from Saturday 28 May.

See also:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/european…

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/pa-consent-o…

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Natural Gas: Egypt’s Subsidy of Israel

Monday, 18 April, 2011 - 20:07
London, UK

Mubarak’s regime in Egypt has been Israel’s most valuable ally in the region until recently.

Shir Hever is an Israeli economist and commentator who researches the economic aspects of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.

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Iraq, Iran, and Israeli intelligence misconceptions

Sunday, 20 February, 2011 - 18:20
London, UK


[1] Some have tried to place the blame on the lies of one Iraqi defector, but we all know that a single source is never sufficient to support intelligence, and was certainly not enough to sustain “with almost certainty” the specific claims of various types of weapons allegedly possessed by Iraq.

[2] Last week a new estimation was finally reported, and it is indeed less conclusive this time. Haaretz was quick to publish the story in Hebrew with a misleading headline, reading “American National Intelligence Estimate: Iran returns to its military nuclear program; an opposite assessment of the one from three years ago, which then ruled that Iran halted its military nuclear project in 2003”. Sadly, this was the product either of amateur journalism or of an attempt to attract Israeli mainstream readers, since the text itself paints a completely different picture, almost the opposite. First, as The Washington Post writes, the 2007 report is not reversed: “The new assessment does not entirely refute the 2007 report’s most controversial finding, which held that Iran’s leaders had halted nuclear weaponization research in 2003”. Moreover, as the Washington Post and South Africa’s Times Live note, the new report is inconclusive (to say the least) regarding the very existence of a nuclear military program,: “The current assessment says that Tehran likely resumed some nuclear weapons research, but does not conclude that it has a full program to build an atomic bomb”; it even notes that “the slow and scattered nature of the effort reflects renewed debate within the government over whether to build a bomb”.


Eyal Clyne is an Israeli researcher of society in Israel-Palestine. He focuses on the conflict and other Israeli political issues. Some of the posts on his Hebrew blog appear also in English and elsewhere, and some of his pieces for JNews are also cross-posted with other sites.

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Views of Egypt show new Jewish discourse in USA

Monday, 14 February, 2011 - 11:43
London, UK

American congressional leaders have already issued a wide variety of statements in the wake of the resignation of Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak.

Mitchell Plitnick is the former Director of the US Office of B’Tselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories and was previously the Director of Education and Policy for Jewish Voice for Peace. He is a widely published policy analyst.

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A mistake of historic proportions?

On the West’s ungraceful scramble to keep up with the shift in the Middle East

Thursday, 3 February, 2011 - 11:51
London, UK

After days of confused and mixed messages, the Obama administration finally seems to be making it clear that it wants Mubarak to go now.

This piece is cross-posted with Antony Lerman’s blog, Context is everything.

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Israel and Palestine in a new Middle East?

Assessing the impact of Egypt’s uprising on local and regional politics.

Wednesday, 2 February, 2011 - 14:56
London, UK

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Israeli human rights group issues message of solidarity with Egyptian, Tunisian struggles

Monday, 31 January, 2011 - 19:27
London, UK
Source: 
PHR-Israel

Against a backdrop of growing apprehension among Israeli authorities over events in Egypt, Physicians for Hu

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Why Israelis aren’t thrilled by the prospect of a democratic Egypt

Israeli leaders used to say that democracy in the Arab world is the key to peace and prosperity in the region. So why are they so unhappy with the current demonstrations?

Sunday, 30 January, 2011 - 12:38
London, UK

Four months ago, deputy-Foreign Minister Ayalon, who often serves as media front for Foreign Minister Lieberman, addressed the high-level audience of ministers, speakers of parliaments and politicians from across the globe ab

Eyal Clyne is an Israeli researcher of society(ies) in Israel-Palestine. He focuses on the conflict and other Israeli political issues. Some of the posts on his Hebrew blog appear also in English and elsewhere, and some of his pieces for JNews are also cross-posted with other sites.

This piece was originally posted on the Israeli-based +972magazine

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