A new study shows massive Iranian support has improved the military capabilities of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist organizations. According to Tel Aviv-based Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, the massive rocket fire from Gaza in November that targeted Israeli civilian population centers was made possible by Iran’s support....

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Two key Iranians, including the man described as Tehran’s “Spy Master” have been spending time in Egypt over the last two weeks. For three decades the two countries had no diplomatic relations, but ties have warmed considerably since the Muslim Brotherhood ascended to power in Cairo. Egypt invited Iranian spy...

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Egypt’s Christians are expressing increasingly pointed fears that the country is sliding into a Muslim theocracy which will fail to protect their riots and even expose them to violence. A top Egyptian cleric recently declared that opposition to the country’s new constitution – the draft of which was hastily rushed through Egypt’s...

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The Muslim Brotherhood has further consolidated its control of Egyptian political institutions, with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi on Sunday reshuffling his cabinet to grant powerful portfolios to Muslim Brotherhood officials. Three Muslim Brotherhood-aligned leaders picked up key portfolios, with Morsi contextualizing the changes as designed to rehabilitate Egypt’s troubled economy. The...

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Egyptian security forces have intercepted a shipment of American-made missiles bound from North Africa to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, according to Arabic and Israeli sources. The news deepens concerns that Palestinian terror groups are exploiting the increasingly anarchic situation in the Sinai Peninsula to move advanced weapons into the Gaza Strip. Egyptian forces have...

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A top adviser to Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has declared that Israel will cease to exist in a decade, and is suggesting that Jews of Egyptian descent should evacuate the Jewish State and return to Egypt in order to make room for Palestinian refugees. The Muslim Brotherhood, to which the...

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Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has announced a renewed focus on bolstering Egypt’s increasingly troubled economy, but the Muslim Brotherhood-linked president’s domestic and foreign policy tactics and priorities may complicate his agenda. Morsi’s statement came immediately after Egyptian voters approved a new constitution that has been widely criticized for institutionalizing Islamic...

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Fears that Egypt is sliding into Islamist autocracy are deepening as the Muslim Brotherhood-dominated government continues to crack down on critics. In just the last 24 hours, reports have emerged that Cairo has opened treason investigations against opponents of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked President Mohammed Morsi, and that civil servants have...

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Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is shifting his focus to Egypt’s economy, according to a speech the Muslim Brotherhood-linked President gave in the aftermath of the country’s constitutional referendum. Egyptians affirmed the constitutional draft last weekend, roughly a month after it was hastily approved by the country’s Islamist-dominated constitutional assembly, and...

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Nearly 64 percent of Egyptians voted to approve a new constitution over the weekend that had been criticized for emphasizing Islamic law and failing to adequately protect the rights of women, religious minorities, government opponents, and others. The constitutional draft had been rushed through passage by the country’s Islamist-dominated constitutional...

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