Egypt says that it is 90% sure that the Russian Metrojet civilian airliner which exploded above the country's Sinai Peninsula killing all 224 aboard was brought down by a bomb as opposed to ground...
“Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!” So said the former...
Arab and Middle Eastern dictatorships are infamous for their cruelty, repression and violence. But these aren't the only things responsible for the longevity of tyrants like the Assad's of Syria,...
Two news headlines relating to recent events in two Palestinian enclaves reminded one of the new realities gradually taking place in those enclaves. Let us start with the Gaza Strip. Since 2007 it...
In September 2013 I wrote a rather odd editorial which posited that the Hamas group in Gaza may actually prove to be a force for stability for Israel. Immediately after publication I suspected there...
After 400-days in jail in Egypt the Al-Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Bahar Mohamed were released on bail. They still await a retrial regarding the charges leveled against them that they...
Egypt's President Sisi is an autocrat who appears to perceive himself as a forward-thinking revolutionary leader of the Egyptian nation. In light of the Islamist attacks in Paris earlier this month...
Given the Islamist terrorist threat Egypt faces in the form of the Ansar al-Maqdis group operating in that country's Sinai Peninsula, along with that groups pledge of allegiance to the Islamic State...
On the night of July 3, exactly 48 hours after General Abdul Fatah Sisi of the Special Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) gave President Morsi an ultimatum—either he listen to the demands of the...
Judging from Twitter, Egypt is in complete chaos. Online, protesters in the square tweeted pictures of a Tahrir Square that resembled the first, triumphant images of the Arab Spring and shared...