Introduction Since the ouster of Muhammad Mursi in July 2013, Saudi-Egyptian relations have been close and marked by common interests. Saudi Arabia backed the Egyptian military's ousting of Mursi and supported its claim that the ouster expressed the will of the people, in the face of international claims that it was a military coup. Alongside political support for the new regime, Saudi Arabia also donated billions of dollars to restore Egypt's economy. However, despite the friendly relations, ...
... filled by European representatives and representatives of Qatar and Turkey, who have begun mediating between Israel and Hamas. Hamas senior official Khalil Al-Haya wrote: "Efforts ... are being made in the international arena to prevent an escalation between Israel ...
The recent terror wave in Paris, which started with the January 7, 2015 massacre at the premises of the French weekly Charlie Hebdo in revenge for cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that the weekly published a few years ago, and continued with the January 8, 2015 murder of a French policewoman and the January 9, 2015 attack on the kosher supermarket Hyper Cacher, sparked numerous and varied reactions in the Arab and Muslim world. 1 These responses found expression on the social networks, 2 in ...
In a recent TV debate, Dr. Muhammad Al-Shtayyeh, a Fatah leader in Cairo, and Ashraf Abu Al-Houl, deputy editor-in-chief of "Al-Ahram", argued over the achievements that Hamas had claimed following the Gaza war. The debate was broadcast on the Egyptian ON TV channel on August 28, 2014. Following are excerpts from a debate on Hamas achievements in the Gaza war, which aired on ON TV on August 28, 2014: Dr. Muhammad Shtayyeh Fatah leader in Cairo: The victory can be attributed to the Palestinian ...
On August 14-15, 2014, the Lebanese Al-Akhbar daily, which is close to Hizbullah, published a comprehensive interview with the organization's secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah to mark the eighth anniversary of the 2006 Lebanon War. In the interview, which was conducted by several interviewers and published in several parts, Nasrallah presented Hizbullah's views on Israel, and described the close cooperation between his organization and Syria during the Lebanon War. He also addressed the issue ...
Until recently, the Egyptian media was on the warpath against Hamas, as expressed by its depiction of the movement as a terror organization affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) that harms Palestinian interests and also harms Egypt and its security and economic interests. 1 Hamas was presented as responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza, and as trading in their blood; its attack on Israel was described as actually directed against Egypt, with the aim of ensuring the ...
Following are excerpts from an interview with Ofir Gendelman, spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, which was broadcast by the Al-Jazeera network on August 1, 2014. Ofir Gendelman: We agreed to seven ceasefire initiatives. It was only yesterday morning that we accepted a U.N. and U.S. initiative for a humanitarian ceasefire. Hamas gave assurances to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, through the mediation of Qatar, that it would honor this ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (center) speaks with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier behind French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius (second from the left) prior to Paris conference. Source: AFP, July 26, 2014. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has so far failed to obtain Hamas and Israel's agreement to his July 25, 2014 proposal for a week-long humanitarian ceasefire. Under the proposal, 48 hours after the moment a cease-fire comes into force, Israel and Hamas would conduct ...
... elements – chiefly the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), Qatar, and Iran. Finally, it blames Hamas for escalating the crisis and ... countries, that is, Turkey and Qatar, together with Hamas. 1. Egypt's Criticism Of Hamas Criticism of Hamas has been voiced by the ... Egypt – that is, between the MB axis comprising Hamas, Qatar, and Turkey, and the anti-MB axis comprising Egypt ... Saudi Arabia – Egypt claims exclusive rights to mediating between Hamas and Israel and dismisses any alternative put forward by ...
The offensive waged by Hamas against Israel from the Gaza Strip has sparked intense criticism in the Arab media, reflecting the movement's deteriorating status in the Arab world. Alongside condemnations of the Israeli counterattack and international calls to end it, Arab media voiced sharp and extensive criticism of the Hamas leadership's handling of the crisis. Such reactions came both from Hamas' natural rivals and from its former allies in the resistance axis, from which it has been expelled ...
