Politics | Opinion

Egypt must pay a price for its sponsorship of Hamas

Since Oct. 7, it has become clear that Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi has been playing Israel for a fool.

Politics | Hamas, Gaza & The Palestinian Authority

Egypt denies Israeli request for greater oversight on Gaza borders

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said on Tuesday that the priorities for Gaza were a ceasefire, delivery of aid, and preventing displacement of Gazans into Egypt.

Politics | Hamas, Gaza & The Palestinian Authority

Elder Of Ziyon - Why can't Palestinian civilians flee to Egypt? Because the "humanitarians" would rather see them dead and blame Israel.

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Science & Technology | Cool Stuff

Precise characterization of a corridor-shaped structure in Khufu’s Pyramid by observation of cosmic-ray muons - Nature Communications

Khufu’s Pyramid is one of the largest archaeological monuments in the world, and still contains unexplored voids. Here, the authors use cosmic-ray muon radiography in multiple positions to precisely characterize one of these inner structures called the

News | Antisemitism Watch

Elder Of Ziyon - An Egyptian "expert" explains that the seven branch menorah has nothing to do with Judaism

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Miscellaneous | Diaspora

Elder Of Ziyon - Egyptian authorities steal newly found Genizah of historic Jewish texts from Jewish cemetery

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Right before Passover too.

History | History

Deterrence: Anwar Sadat said that fear of a nuclear response is what kept Egypt from pushing its Sinai offensive further in 1973

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News | News

In milestone, Israel starts exporting natural gas to Egypt | The Times of Israel

Jerusalem's and Cairo's energy ministries issue rare joint statement announcing implementation of estimated $19.5 billion deal to pump gas from 2 massive offshore gas fields

This is a minor miracle. It would have been unthinkable a few decades ago. Israel wasn't an energy producer, it imported most of its energy. The Arab countries were the energy producers. Not anymore thank G-d!

News | Fun With Islam

Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: Egyptian newspaper reminds readers that Ramadan is a great time for war

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Duplicitous dirtbags. But this is nothing new. They often say one thing in Arabic and another in English.

Politics | Hamas, Gaza & The Palestinian Authority

The Gaza Blockade: An Explainer | HonestReporting

Israel and Egypt have maintained a blockade of Gaza since Hamas seized control of the Strip in 2007. But what are the reasons for the blockade?

Israel's enemies constantly use the Gaza bloadkase as a propaganda tool. These are the facts.

News | News

In first since 2014, Egypt allows Palestinians to exit Gaza for Mecca pilgrimage

Officials say 800 visas granted to Gazans are the first since Cairo launched military offensive against jihadists in restive Sinai

If the Palestinians are such Love key people, and Israel is so villainous, then why does Egypt have such restrictive policies? And why does the world ignore Egypt and obsess over Israel?

Politics | Politics

Supporting the new Arab-Israeli alliances in the Middle East is more important than the "Peace Process"--and T

Supporting the new Arab-Israeli alliances in the Middle East is more important than the “Peace Process”–and Trump Knows It

thinking outside the box

News | The News

Egypt Issues Ultimatum to Hamas on Cooperation with Iran

Israel Hayom has learned that Egypt has issued the Hamas terrorist organization’s political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh an ultimatum.

News | Interesting Stories

Experts open sarcophagus to reveal skeletons lying in soggy mess – GeekWire

Archaeologists have opened up a mysterious black sarcophagus in Egypt, and although they didn’t uncover an evil curse, they did uncover an evil-looking mess.

Science & Technology | Cool Stuff

Mysterious void in Great Pyramid of Giza could finally reveal how pyramids were built

A mysterious void has been discovered in the Great Pyramid of Giza and Egyptologists believe it could finally shed light on how the ancient tombs were constructed. The enigmatic gap, which is around 100ft long is situated directly above the Grand Gallery,

News | That's News to Me

New mummies discovered in tomb near Luxor, Egypt

The tomb, found by archaeologists near the city of Luxor, belonged to a goldsmith.

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

Sweet-Toothed Egypt Endures a Sugar Crisis: ‘People Are Going to Snap’ - NYTimes.com

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

Egypt’s Christians Say They Are at a ‘Breaking Point’

While Imam Mahmoud Gomaa, appointed to keep the peace between two faiths, blames journalists for exaggerating the problem, a local bishop says, “We are at a breaking point.”

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

Gay and Transgender Egyptians, Surveilled and Entrapped, Are Driven Underground

A quiet crackdown by the country’s morality police has shattered what had been an increasingly vibrant and visible community.

Science & Technology | Cool Stuff

Something is off about one of Egypt's oldest and largest pyramids

The Great Pyramid of Giza, which was built for an Egyptian Pharaoh some 4,500 years ago, has been...

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

Egyptian toddler sentenced to life in prison

A 4-year-old in Egypt was mistakenly convicted of killing three people, and it's a sign of a bigger problem with Egypt's justice system.

News | News

Tel Aviv University Just Graduated an Egyptian Valedictorian. Watch his Speech. – Tablet Magazine

Last week, Tel Aviv University held its annual graduation ceremony for international master's students. The event unfolded like most of its kind, with the school's academic officials offering the assembled students congratulations on the occasion and wisd

"Haisam Hassanein grew up surrounded by anti-Israeli stereotypes but found a very different reality when he experienced the country for himself." This is a really beautiful and encouraging story that should give us all some hope that things can get better.

News | Fun With Islam

64 soldiers killed in ISIS attack on Egyptian Army's Sinai checkpoints

Islamic militants on Wednesday unleashed a wave of simultaneous attacks, including suicide car bombings, on Egyptian army checkpoints in the restive northern Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 38 soldiers, security and military officials said.

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Tensions aside, Israel and Egypt do booming business | The Times of Israel

The Qualifying Industrial Zone is just one of Israel's foreign trade success stories, says the country's top trade official

This is an important side of the story that most people don't understand. The best chance for a conventional peace is if all of the Arab nations that surround Israel understand that peace means the ability to do unfettered business with Israel. That business would come with a rise in quality of life for everyone involved.

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Amnesty: Egypt forcibly evicted 1,165 families from Rafah by the Gaza border

In many cases, Amnesty said, residents were not given any official warning at all and heard from the media that they had 48 hours to leave their homes.

I bet you aren't endlessly hearing about this on the nightly news. That only seems to happen when Israel defends itself.

News | News

WATCH: Egyptian academic demands Jews give back gold stolen during the Exodus

"We demand that they return the treasures they stole from us, including the interest they denied the Egyptian economy for many decades," political scientist tells Egyptian TV.

That's cool. We'll give back the gold, but we are going to demand reparation (with interest) for generations of slavery and fees owed for helping to build the pyramids.