Analysts have been warning for months that the Obama administration’s posture toward Egypt’s army-backed interim government – Washington has among other things frozen the delivery of some kinds of military assistance, including Apache helicopters of the type used by Egypt’s military in ongoing anti-terror campaigns – was risking a pivot...

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Egyptian security forces today arrested one of the few prominent Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood figures who have thus far escaped a decapitation campaign being waged against the Islamist group by Egypt’s army-backed interim government: The arrest of Essam el-Erian, the deputy leader of the Brotherhood’s political arm, the Freedom and Justice party,...

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Hamas spent weeks in fall 2012 deliberately escalating the amount and sophistication of rockets and missiles it launched against Israelis. The result was an eight-day bombing campaign by Israel that severely degraded the group’s command and control infrastructure and highlighted Hamas’s ability to penetrate Israel’s Iron Dome-based missile shield. To...

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The Hill reported today on heightening bipartisan Congressional criticism of the Obama administration’s decision to temporarily freeze some military assistance to Egypt, a move made in response to – albeit months after – mass anti-government protests led the Egyptian army to depose the country’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked former president Mohammed Morsi....

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Egypt has for months moved to degrade Hamas’s infrastructure and weaponry. Cairo blamed Hamas for facilitating the movement of personnel and materials used by jihadist groups operating in the Sinai – groups which target both Egyptian and Israeli targets – and has sought to close off both the Palestinian terror...

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After weeks of reports that participation was falling at Brotherhood-driven demonstrations, Islamist supporters of Egypt’s former Muslim Brotherhood-linked president Mohammed Morsi are promising to hold rallies explicitly targeting Israel and Egyptian-Israeli cooperation. “Sinai is witnessing continuous attacks on the homes of local people by coup troops who are trying to establish a buffer...

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UPDATE (7:58pm ET): The media outlet linked below is a Kuwaiti outlet citing Egyptian sources originally quoted by an Egyptian outlet, not the original Egyptian outlet itself. It also appears to be a partial reprint of a similar English-language article published in the World Tribune. Thanks to David Kenner, Foreign...

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Washington Post associate editor David Ignatius expressed surprise yesterday at what he described as “the White House’s inability to convey [to Saudi Arabia]… desired reassurances” regarding U.S. policy in the Middle East, declaring that the Obama administration’s “lack of communication with the Saudis and other Arab allies is mystifying.” He...

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The Egyptian army moved this week against jihadist elements in the northern Sinai Peninsula, near the border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, in the aftermath of an ambush on an Egyptian military convoy. At least 72 terror suspects were detained in the ensuing raids. The anti-terror campaign comes amid ongoing...

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Over the weekend Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh called on Palestinians to launch another war against Israel, triggering speculation by analysts that the terror group was desperate to restore its flagging popularity by orchestrating spectacular violence against Israel. A website affiliated with Hamas’s Al Qassam Brigades is now conveying comments...

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