Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Egypt

-Egypt's new foreign policy tests old alliances
Cairo is reaching out to Iran and the militant group Hamas, a new agenda that angers Israel and will pose a challenge to U.S. ties as it threatens to upend the balance of power in the Middle East.
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-Major protest against the Israeli occupation embassy in Cairo
The big protest is planned for this Friday. (Oh, and tell Thomas Friedman not to worry because he assured Zionists that Egyptian youth have no foreign policy goals).
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-Mubarak's son benefited from deal with Israel
Egyptian prosecutors suspect that ousted president's son took share of earnings in gas deal with Israel.
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-Egypt to double price of Israel-bound natural gas
Egyptian sources tell Al Masry Al Youm that the 2009 contract between Egypt and Israeli firm EMG allows the renegotiation of prices in the event international demand rises beyond an agreed-upon level.
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-Egypt Front-Runner, Amr Moussa, Seeks Israel Reset
Amr Moussa, Top in Polls for President, Wants to Reassert Cairo's Dominance. CAIRO—The leading candidate in Egypt's presidential race said that if he was elected he would break with former President Hosni Mubarak's reliably amenable policies toward Israel.
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-Iran, Egypt to discuss reopening embassies
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-Egypt rejects an American grant: the new Egypt
The new Egyptian government turns down a grant by the US because there are strings attached. In other news, Israeli leaders continue to weep for Mubarak.
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-Mishaal meets with Egyptian elites in Cairo
Head of Hamas's political bureau Khaled Mishaal met on Friday with a galaxy of Egyptian noted figures and intellectuals.
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Egypt's new diplomacy worries Washington
By brokering a unity deal between Palestinian factions, Egypt's interim government has raised ire from US politicians.
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-Egypt and Israel Headed for Crisis, JONATHAN COOK
Nazareth. Israeli officials have expressed alarm at a succession of moves by the interim Egyptian government that they fear signal an impending crisis in relations with Cairo. The widening rift was underscored yesterday when leaders of the rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah signed a reconciliation pact in the Egyptian capital. Egypt's secret role in brokering the agreement last week caught both Israel and the United States by surprise. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, called the deal "a tremendous blow to peace and a great victory for terrorism".
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-Attack on a church in Imbaba leaves 12 dead, hundreds injured
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Dirty hands of House of Saud in Egypt
"Some protesters think that Saudi Arabia is supporting the Salafis in Egypt. “We were never like this, all this is planned by the Saudis,” Ashraf Tarek, one of the protesters, told Ahram Online."
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