Today Israel marked the 46 anniversary of the beginning of the Six Day War. The war formally began with preemptive air strikes against the air forces of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. The armies of all three countries had mobilized and were positioned to attack Israel or suffocate it economically. The...

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Forty-three democracy promotion activists, including 16 Americans, have been sentenced to jail by an Egyptian court after being rounded up in a government crackdown on non-governmental organizations. The Americans had taken refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Cairo after government raids. Washington was ultimately forced to pay $#330,000 in bail for 15...

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Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) has ruled that the Shura Council, the Islamist-dominated upper house of Egypt’s parliament and only legislative body, was illegally elected. The decision, which comes amid plummeting popularity for the country’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked president Muhammad Morsi, may further undermine the government’s political legitmacy: An activist campaign...

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Lawlessness has become so endemic in Egypt that the U.S. Embassy this week warned Americans away from visiting the country’s famed pyramids. A academic teaching at the American University in Cairo received an email from the embassy warning of “aggressiveness [that] in some cases is closer to criminal conduct… with...

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This week’s campaign to free seven kidnapped Egyptian security officials in the Sinai Peninsula exposed deep rifts between the Egyptian army and the country’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked government. The regime and its Brotherhood allies are preventing the army from uprooting the terrorist networks in the territory. A top jihadist explains the Brotherhood’s...

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Seven Egyptian security personnel abducted last week in the Sinai Peninsula have been freed after the Egyptian military dispatched heavy armor and war planes to the territory. A spokesman for Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked president Mohammed Morsi declared that the release of the kidnapped personnel would not stop the government’s military...

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Last week Egyptian media outlets reported on the capture of Al Qaeda-linked Egyptians who had been planning suicide car bombings against the French and American embassies in Cairo. The suspects were found with 22 pounds of explosive materials. It is expected that the suspects had escaped from prison in 2011...

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State Department acting Deputy Spokesman Patrick Ventrell let it be known yesterday that the administration has been monitoring the Egyptian government’s treatment of journalists, and is concerned: First of all, on Egypt, we are deeply concerned by the growing trend of efforts to punish and deter political expression in Egypt....

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An Israeli official has confirmed to The Tower that Egypt had received permission from Israel ahead of time before launching its current military campaign in the Sinai Peninsula. Cairo has poured troops, artillery, and armored vehicles into the territory in response to the kidnapping of seven Egyptian security forces. There...

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Egypt is rolling forces into the Sinai Peninsula in response to the kidnapping of its security personnel. Cairo, of course, is treaty-bound by the Camp David Accords to limit the scope of its deployments in the Sinai Peninsula. When asked whether the armed campaign currently being waged in the territory...

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