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On Wednesday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi defended his nation’s role in attempting to mediate a truce deal between Hamas and Israel. Hamas has accused him of putting forward a deal which was favorable to Israel. Sisi, unlike predecessor Mohammed Morsi, has sought to isolate the Palestinian movement in Gaza. The Egyptian government had been working to contain the situation …

Another Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip; it’s not the first and won’t be the last if the political equation in the region does not change. With the previous offensives launched by Israel on Gaza, several military goals were declared. This time, “Operation Protective Edge” comes within a different context, with new domestic, regional and international factors at play. …

How can a man bearing the title ‘Middle East Peace Envoy’ agree to advise the blood-drenched Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi, who seized power in a military coup last year after presiding over the slaughter of 2,500 protesters and the incarceration of more than 20,000 others? The shocking announcement comes only days after Tony Blair attempted in vain to promote …

Ex-army chief and election front runner in the Presidential election in Egypt Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is set for a landslide victory on Tuesday, the last day of voting. Sisi last July ousted the first democratically elected President of Egypt, Mohammed Morsi, whose Muslim Brotherhood is boycotting the vote. The move has unleashed the most lethal wave of violence in recent …

Advertisements on buses linking Adolf Hitler with “Islamic Jew-hatred” are now running in Washington DC, with the First Amendment protecting the advertisements, and almost guaranteeing that they will run for quite some time. The 15-foot-long ads are on the broadsides of twenty buses in the DC metro area. They feature a photo of Adolf Hitler seated with his “staunch ally” …

On Tuesday, Egyptian prosecutors submitted new evidence against the defendants in a trial of Al-Jazeera journalists, accused of having connections to the banned Muslim Brotherhood. The defendants’ lawyers have disputed the new evidence, which include audio tapes as well. In the trial’s last hearing, prosecutors aired video footage and showed random photographs which were not connected to the case. Authorities …

On Saturday, an Egyptian court handed out a yearlong jail sentence to Islamist leader Mohammed al-Beltagui and deposed President Mohammed Morsi, both standing on trial for murder, for insulting a state prosecutor, judicial sources said. Mohammed al-Beltagui, a senior Muslim Brotherhood member, and Mohammed Morsi were both in attendance on Saturday, standing trial for inciting the deaths of opposition members …