Egypt is a nation without external military threats to its sovereignty. None of its neighbors can threaten Egypt’s territorial sovereignty, yet the United States is arming Egypt at an alarming rate. The only reason Egypt would need a strong army is just in case it decides to go to war against Israel in the future. Continue reading »

An Israeli investigative news television program carried a story last night regarding a four-year-old Sudanese girl who was abducted by Egyptian soldiers last month as she and her family tried to make their way into Israel.

Many Sudanese fleeing from the genocide in Darfur have made their way to Egypt, only to find their hosts nearly as hostile as the Arab militiamen who drove them from their homeland. Those who have read a Bible or have knowledge of the Nazi Holocaust have then turned to Israel and the Jews for refuge. Continue reading »

A leading Egyptian lawmaker from dictator Hosni Mubarak’s own party suggested on Monday that the Muslim world nuke Israel in order to stop it from doing excavation and renovation work in its own capital.

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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice suggested following talks with her Saudi counterpart on Tuesday that the Arab world has come to a concensus on the need to recognize Israel’s right to exist as the Jewish state.

Either Rice is visiting a Middle East in some parallel universe, or she is severely out of touch with the will of the Arab street.

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This time in Egypt. Cairo is banning the most recent editions of popular French and German newspapers for publishing editorials delving into Islam’s violent history and the behavior of its founder, the “prophet” Mohammed.

As reported by Egypt’s state-controlled news agency, MENA:

“The minister of information said that he would not allow any publication that insults the Islamic religion or calls for hatred or contempt of any religion to be distributed inside Egypt.”

This statement will certainly seem odd to anyone familiar with the huge amount of anti-Semitic material published on a regular basis by Egyptian newspapers, radio stations and television networks.

Nor are Christians spared the incitement to hatred.

Now, some will point to the fact that many of the examples of anti-Semitism in the Egyptian media take the form of political criticism of Israel, the Jewish state, making the virulent statements, cartoons and programs perfectly legitimate.

But if that is true, is it not equally legitimate in today’s world to look at, question and even criticize Islam’s violent origins and history? After all, almost all of the major armed conflicts taking place in the world today involve Muslims who claim to be acting on behalf of Allah.

First the Palestinian Arabs, now the Egyptians:

As Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak portrays himself as an honest broker in the Middle East, recent Egyptian TV programs inculcate Arab children with Jew-hatred and the desire for Jihad death.

A Ghanaian soccer player celebrated his team’s upset 2-0 victory over the Czech Republic Saturday by waving a small Israeli flag (he plays professionally for an Israeli soccer team).

Israel’s supposedly friendly neighbors in Egypt, who had previously been rooting for their fellow Africans, responded with anger. Continue reading »