Egypt shuts down last remaining synagogue

As a new mosque pops up every few weeks in America, Egypt puts its last synagogue out of business. Jews lived in Egypt for a thousand years before the world had ever heard of Mohammed. Soon, both Jews and Christians will be erased from Egypt’s history. Springtime for Hitler continues.

Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue, in Alexandria, Egypt. Built in 1354.

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Where religious fanatics have started by persecuting minorities, it has not been long before they turned on their own, accusing them of irreligiousness, heresy and insidious betrayal. The religious freedoms of all Egyptians are in peril.

Fears for the future of religious minorities in Egypt were accentuated last week when it was announced that the last synagogue in the country would be closed down. The Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue, which had operated in Alexandria, was the last functioning center of Jewish life in the country. It is now clear that its cavernous halls, built in the nineteenth century, will not be open to worshippers hoping to mark Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur services this year.

Traditionally, the synagogue has been managed by an Israeli rabbi of Egyptian descent who frequently returns to the country to lead services there. Although there are many synagogues around Egypt, the one in Alexandria is the only active one, the others having been turned into tourist sites.

This year, as Rabbi Avraham Dayan was making preparations for the High Holidays he was told that the Egyptian authorities could not guarantee the safety and security of those wanting to attend the synagogue. Dayan told Ynet:

“This year there have been some violent demonstrations in Alexandria, and they [sic] are afraid to take responsibility over people…We are trying to organize a quorum, but because of the security-related situation we are not really succeeding. We are still in touch with the Egyptian security organizations and are trying to make some progress.

Sectarian tensions across Egypt have been heightened ever since last year’s revolution, with Christian minorities bearing the brunt of the violence.

One of the unintended consequences of the Arab Spring is the guarantee of security – long assured by the region’s old dictators; it has been cast away by the tide of popular unrest sweeping the region.

The power vacuum and instability caused by the overthrow of Mubarak empowered Salafist and Brotherhood activists who increasingly stoke sectarian tensions. Last October, when Christian activists took to the streets of Cairo to protest their mistreatment, they were first involved in scuffles with radical Islamists before the army moved in. During the resulting crackdown, more than 25 Christian protesters were killed and more than 300 injured. It marked one of the most bloody and shameful sectarian episodes in Egypt’s recent history. A Copt protester, Alfred Younan, told Reuters:

Why didn’t they do this with the Salafists or the Muslim Brotherhood when they organized protests? This is not my country any more.

This kind of instability has meant the Jewish presence in Egypt has steadily declined over much of the last century, and has now dwindled to just a handful in Cairo and Alexandria. A study by Stanley Urman of Jews for Justice from Arab Countries has found that this exodus started with the first Nationality Code in Egypt, passed in May 1926.

The Code stipulated that an Egyptian born to a ‘foreign” father – even if the father had been born in Egypt and had been previously recognized as Egyptian – was only able to claim citizenship if the father could prove that he:

…belonged racially to the majority of the population of a country whose language is Arabic or whose religion is Islam.

This law effectively blocked Jews from claiming Egyptian citizenship and relegated them to a lesser legal status in their own country. Later, because the Jews were not officially Egyptian, the government was able to expel a number of them.

This problem was accentuated in 1947, when amendments were passed which stipulated that at least 75% of administrative employees in any company had to by Egyptian, while 90% of the overall workforce also had to be Egyptian. This, of course, struck against Jewish commerce in the country, placed stifling strictures on some of their business, and accelerated the departure of more Jews.

The news that Egypt’s last synagogue, the Eliyahu Hanavi, will now be unable to hold services effectively brings an end to any remaining semblance of Jewish life in Egypt. This is something which should concern not just Jews, but Muslims too, as it epitomises growing intolerance and persecution of a minority. Where religious fanatics have started by persecuting minorities, it has not been long before they turned on their own, accusing them of irreligiousness, heresy and insidious betrayal. The religious freedoms of all Egyptians are in peril.

Obama-Clinton prepare $Billion bailout of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood

Is this the third or fourth billion dollar bailout of Egypt since Springtime for Hitler went into effect? I’ve lost track. And that’s on top of the billions that the U.S. already forks over to the Islamonazis.

U.S. debt just blew past $16 Trillion, and yet the Obama regime still has no problem flushing billions of dollars down Islamic crap-holes around the world.

Wall Street Journal- American diplomats are closing in on an agreement to dole out $1 billion in debt relief to Egypt, part of a gilded charm offensive that Washington hopes will help shore up the country’s economy and prevent its new Islamist leadership from drifting beyond America’s foreign-policy orbit.

A team of senior State Department economic officials have spent the past week in Egypt’s capital completing the terms of an aid package that President Barack Obama first announced last year after Egypt’s pro-democracy uprising rattled the country’s once-promising economic future.

The money has since sat in policy limbo as Egyptian and American diplomats disagreed over how the Egyptian government would allocate the funding and American politicians hesitated over the prospect of rewarding Egypt’s newly elected Islamist leadership.

As the recipient of $1.3 billion in annual U.S. military aid, Egypt has historically ranked among America’s top security partners in the Arab world. Its peace treaty with Israel has helped buttress regional security for more than 30 years.

But the election in June of Egypt’s new Muslim Brotherhood-backed president, Mohammed Morsi, has called the strength of the old alliance into question. However, Mr. Mr. Morsi selected Beijing last week for his first official trip outside the Middle East, followed by a trip to Iran—moves some observers saw as a deliberate snub to Egypt’s traditional Western backers.The arrival of an Islamist government followed by political upheaval and disconcerting moves on the international stage fueled questions over the reliability of Mr. Morsi as a U.S. ally. Morsi’s efforts at internal stability and his public criticism of Syria’s regime while visiting Tehran last week, which angered his hosts, have helped balance U.S. views of the new Egyptian leader.

U.S. diplomats say American funding for Egypt has been stalled by disagreements over how the government in Cairo will allocate the debt relief. The envoys currently in Cairo are negotiating over slightly less than half the money, which would be paid as a direct cash transfer to Egypt’s budget.

Video: Egyptian Cleric Safwat Higazi – “The day will come when we will be masters of the world”

These people are psychotic. Obama, Hillary, are you listening?

The only thing these people will ever be “masters” of is their women.

Aug 22, 2012 by MEMRITVVideos

Israel tells Egypt to remove tanks from Sinai

PM Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded that Egypt cease sending tanks into the Sinai without approval, a “blatant violation” of the 1979 peace treaty.

Prior to the Obama-Clinton backed ‘Arab Spring,’ Egyptian tanks and anti-aircraft in the Sinai was nearly inconceivable, as was the Sinai turning into an al-Qaeda mini-state. The Obama regime has so screwed up the Middle East that now the inconceivable is the probable.

The re-militarization of the Sinai won’t likely dissuade the 5th column State Department from shoveling billions more in aid to Egypt’s Islamonazi Muslim Brotherhood regime.

Army trucks carry Egyptian military tanks in Egypt’s northern Sinai Peninsula, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012.

Times of Israel – Israel has told Egypt that it must remove its tanks from the Sinai Peninsula because their continued presence violates the peace agreement between the two countries.

The message was sent via the White House in an effort to give the warning added weight and to bridge the shaky relationship between Israeli and Egyptian security forces, Maariv reported on Tuesday. Israel was protesting the ongoing increase in military presence, which has been going ahead without coordination with Jerusalem.

On Monday, an Egyptian security source told Reuters that Cairo would soon deploy tanks, aircraft and rocket launchers in its bid to root terrorist elements out of the peninsula.

The move would constitute an unprecedented military presence in the Sinai, which was demilitarized as part of the 1979 peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. Jerusalem considers the peninsula a strategic buffer zone.

The decision to communicate via the White House was made, the report said, because Israeli ties with Egypt have become strained in recent months. The United States is still influential thanks to the $1.3 billion of military aid it supplies to Egypt every year.

Earlier this month Israel agreed to an Egyptian troop buildup in the Sinai as part of Cairo’s cleanup operation against terror groups that were operating with impunity throughout the peninsula. The move came after an attack at the beginning of August on an Egyptian border post, which left 16 border guards dead.

That incident ended after the terrorists commandeered an armored vehicle and crashed it through the border into Israel, where it was intercepted by Israeli forces.

Israeli officials are concerned that Egypt may use its anti-terrorist operation as a way of building its military strength in Sinai. Having gained access, Cairo may leave the tanks and armored carriers in place while taking little more than symbolic action to curb the terrorist threat.

Haaretz reported last week that Egypt moved dozens of tanks and armored vehicles into the northern Sinai area without first coordinating with Israel.

Video: Egypt energy crisis leaves residents in the dark

Wilting in the Arab Spring.

Aug 17, 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish – Egyptian residents have been struggling to get by as officials say their energy infrastructure is unable to cope with national demand.

People are going for days without electricity due to the power grid repeatedly shutting down. In the sweltering summer heat some communities have seen power cuts last for days on end.

Egypt: Dahshour’s entire Christian community forced to flee for their lives

Obama and Clinton’s springtime for Hitler marches on.

Sameeha Wehba, 70, was reportedly the last Christian in Dahshour. (Photo: AP)

(The Blaze/AP) — When the angry mob was rampaging through town, storming her home and those of other Christians, the 70-year-old woman hid in her cow pen, pushing a rock against the door. There she cowered for hours, at one point passing out from tear gas being fired by police that seeped in.

When Sameeha Wehba emerged just before dawn, she found she was the only Christian left in this small Egyptian village just south of Cairo, the location of some of the country’s earliest pyramids.

Dahshour’s entire Christian community – as many as 100 families some estimate – fled to nearby towns in the violence earlier this week. The flock’s priest, cloaked in a white sheet to hide him, was taken out in a police van. At least 16 homes and properties of Christians were pillaged and some torched and a church damaged.

The violence was ultimately rooted in a dispute over a badly ironed shirt that escalated into a fight in which a Muslim was burned to death, sparking the rampage by angry Muslims.

“It was a devil’s moment,” Wehba said Thursday at the home of her Muslim neighbors, who have taken her in. “Whoever caused this was the devil’s son.”

The unprecedented exodus underscores how sectarian divisions are bubbling over in the wake of the revolution, in a country where 10 percent of the population is Christian.  (more >>>)

Israel US ambassador, Michael Oren: Iran behinds deadly cross-border attack

But don’t worry, according to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, Iran, Egypt, and Hamas are nothing to get excited about. Nothing handing Jerusalem over to the terrorists wouldn’t cure.

Times of Israel – Iran was behind Sunday’s deadly cross-border incident in the south, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, said late Sunday night.

Using social networking platform Twitter, Oren called the perpetrators of the attack, which left 16 Egyptian soldiers dead, “Iranian backed terrorists” who also wished to “massacre Israeli civilians.”

After shooting the Egyptian soldiers and commandeering two Egyptian military vehicles, the gunmen attempted to cross the border into Israel, but were stopped by the army and air force. The vehicles were destroyed and all the terrorists are believed to have been killed.

In a later tweet, Oren praised the IDF for its swift response to the incident and wrote that “the thwarted attack underscores the length to which the extremist regime in Iran will attempt to kill innocent Israelis.”

Israel has blamed Iran for being behind the Burgas bombing in Bulgaria last month, which claimed the lives of five Israelis and their Bulgarian bus driver. Intelligence officials also blame Iran for planning a series of terrorist attacks against Israelis over the last two years, many times using proxies, such as Hezbollah.

Last week, Indian police concluded that Iran was behind the February bomb attack in New Delhi against Israeli Embassy workers, which seriously injured Tal Yehoshua Koren, wife of the Israeli military attaché in India.

 

 

 

IDF foils assault on southern border after terrorists kill 16 Egyptian soldiers

Obama’s Middle East just keeps getting safer and safer.

An Egyptian armored vehicle commandeered by terrorists burning at the Kerem Shalom crossing on Sunday.

Times of Israel – A major effort by Gaza-based Palestinian terrorists to infiltrate into Israel was thwarted on the Israel-Egypt-Gaza border on Sunday night.

The gunmen killed at least 16 Egyptian soldiers and commandeered two Egyptian armored vehicles before attempting to cross into Israel; they were stopped by the army and the air force, and several terrorists were killed. The death toll was earlier reported as 15.

The army and the police continued searching the area overnight, and additional troops were deployed, in case any of the terrorists were still on the loose inside Israel.

No Israelis were reported injured in the attack. Israeli residents in the area were told to stay inside their homes late into the night.

The Israeli security forces had advance intelligence on plans for an attack, the IDF Spokesman Yoav Mordechai said. Maj.-Gen. Tal Russo, the O/C Southern command, was at the scene.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the security forces for thwarting the attack, and said in a statement that Israel would track down “anyone who tries to harm us.”

Defense Minister Ehud Barak said the IDF and Shin Bet security service had thwarted what could have been a grave attack, and praised their alertness and determined action.

Barak urged Egypt to take steps to restore security to the Sinai.

Video: Egyptian Muslim movie stars go berserk on ‘Candid Camera’ show when told they are on Israeli TV

This is utterly bizarre. And creepy. And insulting. And so, so very typical of the entrenched hatred for Jews in the Muslim world, and their all-pervasive anti-Semitic propaganda.

These people are supposed to be ‘liberal’ and ‘open-minded,’ the best Egypt has to offer from the newly ‘democratic’ Egypt that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are promoting with words and billions in taxpayer dollars.

The Egyptian ‘stars’ are led to believe that the station they are on is not German, but Israeli, and then the fireworks begin. Aside from the obvious Jew-hatred and violence than unfolds, it demonstrates how truly stupid these people are. The prank is played on three different Egyptian actors.

Jul 23, 2012 by MEMRITVVideos

Obama-Clinton offer Egypt over a billion dollars in additional aid

Clinton and Obama have already given Egypt billions in additional aid. This is on top of that. The Egyptian economy is in tatters. Tourism, their top money earner, is way down. The country would have already imploded if the Saudis hadn’t given them a huge cash infusion. America is going to be propping up Egypt forever, as the Muslim Brotherhood continues to plot against us.

Voice of America – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Tel Aviv after ending two days of talks with Egypt’s quarrelling civilian and military leaders. She offered them U.S. assistance for the struggling Egyptian economy without publicly taking sides in their ongoing power struggle.

A U.S. State Department official said Clinton discussed U.S. aid proposals at a meeting in Cairo Sunday with Egyptian military chief Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi. The official said Tantawi told Clinton that reviving the Egyptian economy is a priority for his country. Clinton revealed details of the U.S. aid pledge on Saturday, when she held talks with Egypt’s Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, who took office last month.

VOA correspondent Scott Stearns, who is traveling with Clinton, said debt relief is a major part of the U.S. package.

“In both her talks with President Morsi and Field Marshal Tantawi, she discussed the U.S. ability to help the Egyptian economy. The political instability here in Egypt has really hurt economic growth and tourism revenue. So U.S. President Barack Obama is proposing a package of debt relief that could go as high as $1 billion. Tantawi said that’s really the chief priority now; that’s what Egyptians need – a better economy,” he said.

Other U.S. aid proposals include a $60 million fund for Egypt’s small- and medium-sized businesses and $250 million in private-sector loan guarantees. Stearns said Egypt will have to negotiate the terms of the broader debt relief package with the United States, but that process cannot begin until Mr. Morsi forms a Cabinet.

Muslim clerics demand demolition of Egypt’s pyramids in name of Allah

Do it. We dare you. Show the world what a bunch of backwards barbarians you really are. Cut off your #1 source of income – tourism. You don’t deserve such monuments anyway.

FPM via Weasel Zippers

According to several reports in the Arabic media, prominent Muslim clerics have begun to call for the demolition of Egypt’s Great Pyramids — or, in the words of Saudi Sheikh Ali bin Said al-Rabi‘i, those “symbols of paganism,” which Egypt’s Salafi party has long planned to cover with wax. Most recently, Bahrain’s “Sheikh of Sunni Sheikhs” and President of National Unity, Abd al-Latif al-Mahmoud, called on Egypt’s new president, Muhammad Morsi, to “destroy the Pyramids and accomplish what the Sahabi Amr bin al-As could not.”

This is a reference to the Muslim Prophet Muhammad’s companion, Amr bin al-As and his Arabian tribesmen, who invaded and conquered Egypt circa 641. Under al-As and subsequent Muslim rule, many Egyptian antiquities were destroyed as relics of infidelity. While most Western academics argue otherwise, according to early Muslim writers, the great Library of Alexandria itself — deemed a repository of pagan knowledge contradicting the Koran—was destroyed under bin al-As’s reign and in compliance with Caliph Omar’s command. [...]

Now, however, as Bahrain’s “Sheikh of Sheikhs” observes, and thanks to modern technology, the pyramids can be destroyed. The only question left is whether the Muslim Brotherhood president of Egypt is “pious” enough — if he is willing to complete the Islamization process that started under the hands of Egypt’s first Islamic conqueror.

Nor is such a course of action implausible. History is laden with examples of Muslims destroying their own pre-Islamic heritage — starting with Islam’s prophet Muhammad himself, who destroyed Arabia’s Ka‘ba temple, transforming it into a mosque.

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Obama eagerly awaits September visit by Egypt’s new Islamist president

The new Muslim Brotherhood president will feel right at home in Imam Obama’s Islamist-infested White House. Maybe he’ll have Hillary and Huma Abedin give the Jew-hating Islamonazi special tour.

Islam-loving Reuters says that the Muslim Brotherhood renounced violence years ago. That is patently false and shows how in bed the media is with Islam, and the Muslim Brotherhood in particular.

REUTERS (h/t Weasel Zippers) — US President Barack Obama has invited Egypt’s newly elected Islamist president, Mohamed Mursi, to visit the United States in September, an Egyptian official said on Sunday, reflecting the new ties Washington is cultivating with the region’s Islamists.

Washington, long wary of Islamists and an ally of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, shifted policy last year to open formal contacts with the Muslim Brotherhood, the group behind Mursi’s win. Mursi formally resigned from the group after his victory.

Mursi’s success at the polls mirrors the rising influence of Islamists in countries across the Middle East and North Africa in the wake of revolts and protests against autocratic rulers who have led the region for decades.

“President Obama extended an invitation to President Mursi to visit the United States when he attends the UN General Assembly in September,” Egyptian aide Yasser Ali said after Mursi met US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns in Cairo.

Israel has watched with growing concern the political gains of the Brotherhood, an inspiration for the Palestinian militant group Hamas. The 84-year-old Brotherhood renounced violence as a means to achieve political change in Egypt decades ago.

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Video: Obama & Hillary’s new best friend, Egypt’s President Morsi – “Jihad is our path, the koran our constitution, death for the sake of allah is our aspiration”

Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Clinton love this guy. They have nothing but praise for Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Springtime for Hitler that they did so much to help promote. Now meet their good buddy:

Jun 28, 2012 by MEMRITVVideos – Mohamed Morsi during Elections Campaign: Jihad Is Our Path, Death for the Sake of Allah Is Our Most Lofty Aspiration, the Shari’a Is Our Constitution
The Internet, Misr 25 TV (Egypt) – May 13, 2012

Egypt sentences 5 businessmen to 15 years in prison for not overcharging Israel for natural gas

If you don’t screw the Joos, then you will be screwed.

This is what democracy looks like in Obama’s Arab Spring.

Arutz Sheva – A criminal court in Egypt today jailed a former Mubarak-era cabinet minister and a businessman for 15 years each for selling Israel natural gas “below market value.”

“The Cairo criminal court sentenced former oil minister Sameh Fahmi and fugitive businessman Hussein Salem to 15 years in prison each over the (Israel) gas deal,” a judicial source told AFP.

Salem, is a former partner in the East Mediterranean Gas Co (EMG), an Israeli-Egyptian consortium.

The men were accused “of exporting gas to Israel at below market value” undermining the interests of Egypt, the source added.

Israeli officials have said the paid competitive market rates for natural gas from Egypt under the deal, when viewed in relation to global markets.

Nonetheless, five former high ranking officials from the oil and gas authority received jail sentences ranging from three to 10 years on similar charges, the judicial source added.

Video: Liz Chenny warns about the Muslim Brotherhood, dismayed by Obama Administration’s admiration for them

Liz Cheney calls foul on the Obama Administration’s support for the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Jun 26, 2012 by cablenewsguy – Liz Chenny as always does an excellent job informing us about the dangers of the newly elected Muslim Brotherhood president of Egypt and what it means for us, Israel and any other group or persons that the Brotherhood does not like.

Longtime useful idiot John Kerry insists we not prejudge Egypt’s new Muslim Brotherhood government

Kerry has backed every foe America has ever had. His advice is not worthless, however. No matter the issue, and especially foreign affairs, if one wants to know the right thing to do, then do the opposite of whatever John ‘D-student’ Kerry suggests.

Via PJM (via WZ)

The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee warned against “prejudging” the Muslim Brotherhood as Mohammed Morsi became Egypt’s first Islamist president today.

“During my recent visits to Cairo, I’ve had two candid discussions with the new president. He’s acknowledged that the central issue to Egypt’s future is economic. His words suggest he understands the gravity of the challenges facing Egypt,” Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) said today.

“In our discussions, Mr. Morsi committed to protecting fundamental freedoms, including women’s rights, minority rights, the right to free expression and assembly, and he said he understood the importance of Egypt’s post-revolutionary relationships with America and Israel,” he added. “Ultimately, just as it is anywhere in the world, actions will matter more than  words.”

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Kerry also believed that Bashir Assad could be reasoned with.

Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi declared president of Egypt

The largest Muslim Brotherhood regime on the planet, courtesy of Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Times of Israel – Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi was declared the first democratically elected president of Egypt Sunday afternoon, ending months of speculation as to who would replace deposed leader Hosni Mubarak.

The carrying out of free elections in Egypt was a stunning development in a country that had been governed by autocracy until a popular revolution ousted Mubarak in January 2011.

Morsi, who won an earlier round of presidential voting, was declared the winner with 51.7 percent of the vote, compared to 48.3 percent for his opponent Ahmed Shafiq.

Officials said 843,250 votes were declared void.

Some 51% of Egypt’s voting-eligible public cast ballots in the runoff election.

The announcement by election official Farouk Sultan came after a 45-minute delay and a long prologue.

The election of Morsi is expected to be challenged in the supreme court.

Tahrir Square erupted into loud cheers and mass celebrations as the winner was announced, with thousands of people waving flags, shouting and dancing.

“As Egyptians celebrate their freedom, we pay special tribute to the martyrs of the great Egyptian revolution, their blood didn’t go in vain,” the Brotherhood tweeted shortly after the announcement.

Morsi’s spokesman Ahmed Abdel-Attie said words cannot describe the “joy” in this “historic moment.”

“We got to this moment because of the blood of the martyrs of the revolution,” he said. “Egypt will start a new phase in its history.”

Egypt: Brotherhood leaders promise ‘mass rage’ if candidate Morsi not proclaimed president

Springtime for Hitler is still just warming up.

Muslim Brotherhood’s peace-loving candidate, Mohammed Morsi.

Times of Israel – Officials in Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood warned of a second popular revolution accompanied by “mass rage” if the country’s governing military authorities postpone the announcement of the presidential vote’s results, scheduled for Sunday afternoon, or call for new elections in some Egyptian provinces.

Muhammad Beltagy, secretary of the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, accused the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) Sunday of trying to advance the candidacy of Mubarak-loyalist Ahmad Shafiq at all costs.

“After failing to fulfill the plan to make Shafiq win, some elements tried to engineer an alternative scenario of reelections in some provinces, hoping that Shafiq’s victory can be assured in a less tense atmosphere,” wrote Beltagy on his personal Facebook page Sunday afternoon. “To this end, conferences and rallies were held yesterday, to convey an image of public symmetry and prepare for the reelection decision.”

Beltagy did not name SCAF explicitly, but warned those supporting Shafiq to “stop playing with fire” and announce the election results promptly.

He was echoing the sentiments of Muslim Brotherhood official Issam Al-Aryan, deputy head of the Freedom and Justice Party, who warned Sunday that any postponement of the election results would lead to “mass rage.” In an interview with Saudi-owned daily A-Sharq Al-Awsat, Aryan denied any negotiations between the Brotherhood and SCAF regarding “the day after” results are announced.

The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has pledged to hand over power to an elected civil president by July 1.

On Sunday, the Muslim Brotherhood declared its candidate, Mohammed Morsi, had won last weekend’s race against Shafiq for president. On its official website, it advertised a press conference by “President-elect Mohammed Mursi” immediately following the official announcement of election results.

Video: Meet Egypt’s new president, Jew-hating Mohammed Morsi, Israel’s new neighbor

This is what Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Clinton’s Springtime for Hitler has wrought.

Israel nails 3 terrorists on Egyptian border after Israeli killed

Ever since Obama and Clinton lauded the Egyptian springtime for Hitler, the Egyptian border with Israel has been the site of numerous terrorist attacks.

Arutz Sheva – One Israeli was killed on Monday morning in a gunfight between terrorists and IDF troops near Israel’s border with Egypt.

Reports indicate that a group of terrorists opened fire and set off an explosive at Defense Ministry contract workers who were working along the border fence with Egypt, near Nitzana. One of the workers was wounded and died shortly thereafter of his wounds. Voice of Israel radio said his name is Sa’ed Fachachte.

IDF troops who were called to the scene began exchanging gunfire with the terrorists, killing at least two.

Channel 2 News reported that the IDF has called in reinforcements to the area, fearing that more terrorists may be hiding nearby and planning to carry out another attack. It is believed that the terrorists had tried to infiltrate into Israel.

Surrounding towns have been put on alert and residents were ordered to stay inside their homes.

On Sunday night, IAF aircraft struck a weapons manufacturing site in southern Gaza and a center of terrorist in central Gaza.

According to a statement by the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, direct hits were identified at the targets. All Israeli aircraft returned safely to their bases.

The statement said that the attack came in response to high trajectory fire into Israeli territory.

Over the Sabbath, remains of two Grad rockets were found in southern Israel. One may have been fired from Jordan.

On Sunday afternoon, Arab terrorists fired three mortar shells at IDF troops in the Eshkol region. The soldiers were on patrol near the Gaza border fence.

Earlier this month, Sgt. Netanel Moshiashvili, 21, was shot and killed while his patrol unit clashed with a terrorist who infiltrated through the Gaza border.

Egypt’s Hosni Mubarack in a coma

If he’s lucky he won’t wake up to the horror that awaits him.

Times of Israel – ‘CAIRO — Hosni Mubarak’s health deteriorated further on Monday, with the ousted president slipping in and out of consciousness and being fed liquids intravenously, Egyptian security officials said.

CNN quoted an Interior Ministry spokesman as saying that Mubarak had fallen into a full coma.

Doctors had to use a defibrillator twice on 84-year-old Mubarak, according to the officials at Torah prison hospital, where the former leader is serving a life sentence. They did not say whether Mubarak’s heart had stopped or he suffered from irregular heartbeats. But they said that Mubarak has slipped in and out of consciousness three times so far on Monday. He was also reported to be slipping in and out of consciousness on Sunday.

Mubarak’s two sons, one-time heir apparent Gamal and wealthy businessman Alaa, were by his side, the officials said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. The two sons are being held at Torah prison awaiting trial on insider trading charges.

According to Egyptian officials, Mubarak’s health has deteriorated sharply since he was convicted in June of failing to prevent the killings of hundreds of protesters during the uprising that ousted him last year. They have also said he is suffering from deep depression.

Women protesting sexual harassment in Tahrir Square promptly attacked and groped

This is what Arab democracy amounts to.

Female protesters walk towards Tahrir square after Mubarak’s verdict in Cairo June 2, 2012. (Reuters)

Ahram.com via Gateway Pundit :

Hundreds of men assaulted women holding a march demanding an end to sexual harassment, with the attackers overwhelming the male guardians and groping and molesting several of the female marchers in Cairo’s Tahrir Square.

A mob of hundreds of men have assaulted women holding a march demanding an end to sexual harassment, with the attackers overwhelming the male guardians and groping and molesting several of the female marchers in Cairo’s Tahrir Square.

From the ferocity of Friday’s assault, some of the victims said it appeared to have been an organised attempt to drive women out of demonstrations and trample on the pro-democracy protest movement.

The attack follows smaller scale assaults on women this week in Tahrir, the epicenter of the uprising that forced Hosni Mubarak to step down last year. Thousands have been gathering in the square this week in protests over a variety of issues — mainly over worries that presidential elections this month will secure the continued rule by elements of Mubarak’s regime backed by the ruling military.

Earlier in the week, an Associated Press reporter witnessed around 200 men assault a woman who eventually fainted before men trying to help could reach her.

Friday’s march was called to demand an end to sexual assaults. Around 50 women participated, surrounded by a larger group of male supporters who joined hands to form a protective ring around them. The protesters carried posters saying, “The people want to cut the hand of the sexual harasser,” and chanted, “The Egyptian girl says it loudly, harassment is barbaric.”

After the marchers entered a crowded corner of the square, a group of men waded into the group of women, heckling them and groping them. The male supporters tried to fend them off, and it turned into a melee involving a mob of hundreds.

Video: Egyptian Cleric Muhammad Hassan slams Western and Eastern cultures and religions

A top cleric among Egypt’s “religion of peace” shares his contempt for the West (and East) with his flock of followers. Every week all around the world Islamic leaders spew the same derisive, holier than thou messages.

Western leaders, however, refuse to acknowledge the Muslims’ disdain and hatred for them and everything they believe. Silly them.

Jun 10, 2012 by MEMRITVVideos

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood candidate: When we take power we will retry Mubarak for a “more appropriate sentence”

Of course you will.

By a “more appropriate sentence” he means seeing Mubarak swinging at the end of a rope.

A huge crowd gathered at Tahrir Square on Saturday calling for the end of the military council currently governing the country. | Photo credit: AP

Israel Hayom – Following the sentencing of deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to life in prison on Saturday, tens of thousands of Egyptians flooded into Tahrir Square in Cairo, demanding the death penalty for the ailing former leader. Demonstrators blocked roads leading to the square, burned tires and hurled stones and bottles at security forces.

Similar protests went on in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria and Suez on the Red Sea.

“Justice was not served. This is a sham,” Ramadan Ahmed, whose son was killed on Jan. 28, the bloodiest day of last year’s uprising, said ouside the courthouse.

Protesters chanted: “A farce, a farce, this trial is a farce,” and “The people want execution of the murderer.” While some called for Mubarak’s execution, others feared the judge’s ruling exposed weaknesses in the case that could let the ex-military strongman off on appeal.

The case against Mubarak, his sons and top aides was very limited in scope, focusing only on the uprising’s first few days and two narrow corruption cases. It was never going to provide a full accountability of wrongdoing under Mubarak’s three decades of authoritarian rule enforced by a brutal police force and a coterie of businessmen linked to the regime who amassed wealth while nearly half of Egypt’s estimated 85 million people lived in poverty.

During the demonstration, protesters shouted slogans against the ruling military council, clashed with pro-Mubarak supporters and burned images of Mubarak and Ahmed Shafiq, who served as prime minister under Mubarak and made it to the runoff for Egypt’s first democratic presidential elections scheduled for June 16-17.

Shafiq commented on the sentence on Saturday, saying, “Egypt’s legal system meted out justice and proved that no one in Egypt is above the law. Every president who is elected must learn a historical lesson from this ruling.”

Other presidential candidates denounced the sentence. Hamdeen Sabahi, a socialist and a champion of the poor who made a surprisingly strong showing in the first round of the elections but did not ultimately make it to the run-off, attended the demonstration at Tahrir Square and got a warm welcome from protesters.

“The ruling proves that Egypt’s legal system is still infected with remnants of the former regime,” Sabahi said as he was carried by supporters in the crowd.

Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate Mohammed Morsi, who will face Shafiq in the run-off, not only condemned the sentence, but promised that if elected, he would demand a retrial for Mubarak.

“This criminal deserves the death penalty,” Morsi told the Egyptian media. “With Allah’s help, when we will be in power, we will replace the prosecutor and the judges and conduct a retrial to achieve a more appropriate sentence for Mubarak and his fellow criminals.”

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Rock throwing and fist fights left at least 20 people injured, and a police official said that four people were arrested.

Presiding judge Ahmed Refaat also sentenced his former interior minister, Habib el-Adli, to life in prison on the same charge. But Mubarak’s two sons — Gamal and Alaa — were acquitted on corruption charges.

It’s almost certain that Mubarak will appeal the decision. If he does and this drags on, you can be sure that the streets will ignite in more violence.

CAIRO – Egypt’s ousted ruler Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison Saturday for complicity in the killings of protesters who overthrew him. He could have received the death penalty.

Presiding judge Ahmed Refaat also sentenced his former interior minister, Habib el-Adli, to life in prison on the same charge. But Mubarak’s two sons — Gamal and Alaa — were acquitted on corruption charges.

Scuffles broke out in the Cairo courtroom between supporters and opponents of the former president after the verdicts were announced.

Before the sentence was passed, protesters had chanted “Enough talk, we want execution,” outside the court set up in a police academy on the outskirts of Cairo, Reuters reported. Hundreds of police with riot shields and batons surrounded the facility where the 10-month trial has been held.

“I believe there is no justice; if Mubarak was not the president, he would have been executed long time ago,” Nahayat Mohamed, 14, told Ahram Online Saturday.

But the newspaper also said pro-Mubarak supporters were outside the police academy, holding banners that read “Hosni Mubarak is a legend” and “The most honourable Egyptian is Mubarak.”

Ahram Online reported at 9:38 a.m. local time (3:38 a.m. ET) that Mubarak, wearing sunglasses, a beige top and black trousers, was wheeled in to the police academy as he lay on a stretcher.

The judge said uprising ended 30 years of tyranny, saying the people who protested against poverty and oppression were peaceful, according to the newspaper.

Mubarak, 84, was acquitted of the graft charges he faced, Ahram Online reported. It said his life sentence was for failing to prevent the killing of protesters.

“Initial, fleeting satisfaction, followed by disappointment, and then anger,” said Shadi Hamid, director of research at the Brookings Doha Center and a fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, in a message on Twitter.

“Excuse me President Obama, you’re going to do what?”

“I’d think this verdict would spur greater consensus between Islamists … and liberals,” he added.

Few Egyptians expected he would go to the gallows, even if some thought that was what he deserved. Protesters have often hung his effigy from lamp posts since he fell on February 11, 2011.

Historic trial

It was the first time an Arab leader ousted by his people has been placed before a regular court. The trial had Arabs glued to the television last year and sent a message to other autocrats battling rebellions what fate might await them.

“Mubarak’s trial has the potential to set a meaningful regional precedent for accountability for human rights abuses and for upholding international fair trial standards,” Human Rights Watch wrote in a report before the session.

But the ruling could not come at a more sensitive time for Egypt, right in the middle of a fraught presidential election that pits a figure from the Muslim Brotherhood, banned under Mubarak, against the deposed leader’s last prime minister.

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Jerusalem Post – The head of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has called on Arab forces to confront Israel and for the international community to pressure the “Zionist government to withdraw from the land of Palestine.”

The comments by Brotherhood General Guide Mohammed Badie came in a written statement issued May 17 to commemorate Nakba Day, when Palestinians and other Arabs mourn Israel’s creation in 1948.

The statement – the existence of which was revealed Wednesday by the Investigative Project on Terrorism blog – reminds Brotherhood followers of the movement’s decades-long “sacrifices” in efforts to destroy the Jewish state.

“On this day, like every year, the Arab and Islamic nations remember the worst catastrophe ever to befall the peoples of the world,” Badie wrote in the text, translated by The Jerusalem Post. “We demand the international community rectify the historic injustice [of 1948] and pressure the government of the Zionist entity to withdraw from the land of Palestine.”

The statement portrays the Arab revolts of the last 18 months as part of an inexorable process to “liberate” land now in the State of Israel.

“We have toppled the most repressive regimes with purpose and determination,” Badie wrote. “We have begun the era of liberation of all peoples, first of all the Palestinian people, [suffering from] the worst occupation known to man – the Zionist occupation.”

Uriya Shavit, a lecturer in Tel Aviv University’s Department for Arabic and Islamic Studies, said those acquainted with the Brotherhood’s history will find the message unsurprising.

“The idea that the Brotherhood doesn’t recognize the legitimacy of Israel, and the call to eradicate it at some point, is something the group has never denied. It’s been in Brotherhood literature from its founding in 1928 until this very day,” Shavit said.

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VOR – Egypt’s Constitution should be based on the Koran and Sharia law, presidential candidate from the Muslim Brotherhood Islamist movement Mohamed Morsi said.

“The Koran is our constitution, the Prophet is our leader, jihad is our path and death in the name of Allah is our goal,” Morsi said in his election speech before Cairo University students on Saturday night.

Mohamed Morsi

Today Egypt is close as never before to the triumph of Islam at all the state levels, he said.

“Today we can establish Sharia law because our nation will acquire well-being only with Islam and Sharia. The Muslim Brothers and the Freedom and Justice Party will be the conductors of these goals,” he said.

The Muslim Brotherhood Islamist group has been banned in Egypt for decades before being legalized following the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak in last year’s popular uprising, and has since emerged as a powerful political force.

The first round of Egypt’s presidential election is scheduled for May 23-24. The presidential campaign starts on April 30 and finishes at midnight on May 21.

The president will be elected for a four-year term.