Results for “Egyptian Foreign Ministry”

…sly a situation which bore watching. But the truth was that neither he nor anyone else in Israel had any idea about the Egyptian mobilization. He left the party as soon as he could, to tell Dayan and Ben- Gurion. When a reconnaissance flight the next day confirmed that dozens of...

…ed Morsi if Israeli’s could take letter public. Morsi said yes, it was written with that in mind. Perez made it public, Egyptian Muslim Bro got angry so Morsi denied he had ever sent a letter. Tunisia’s Muslim Bro are drafting a constitution that makes it criminal to support a p...

…nd collapsed into Yasha Kedmi’s arms. Yasha propped him up and kept trying to staunch the bleeding. I turned toward the Egyptian soldier who had shot Yishai, less than 20 feet to my left. Keeping myself as low as possible above the turret, I fired into his chest. He tumbled into...

…itical force in Egypt remains a roomful of unelected officials, they will have planted the seeds for future unrest, and Egyptians will have missed a historic opportunity,” Mrs. Clinton warned. “When unelected authorities say they want to be out of the business of governing,” the...

…, I assumed that, since they were also following the other helicopter teams further south, they were concerned that the Egyptians had figured out at least that Israeli units were involved. Both he and I knew that it ultimately had to be my call. Whatever happened, I’d be responsi...

…highlighted the danger of a surprise attack, potentially leaving us in a scramble to call up reserve units as Syrian or Egyptian tanks advanced on our borders. But the memory of Uri Ilan remained a haunting reminder of the risks of failure. My role, again, came down partly to ac...

…urs before, in a co-ordinated push by a strengthened armor and infantry force, Israeli forces finally drove most of the Egyptians out. What tenuous gains we’d made until then had come at an enormous price. Of Yitzhik’s 300 men, nearly 40 were killed, and many others wounded. I’d...

…e war, both Amitai and Amiram Levin were part of an operation to take over the Fayid Air Base across the canal. When an Egyptian RPG hit their Jeep, Amiram was wounded. Amitai was killed. I thought, too, of Yishai Izhar: the friend struck down beside me, who I’d cradled in my ar...

…hout any accompanying political liberalization. Eventually, either a government will improve conditions for the average Egyptian, or it will become so repressive that mass action ceases to be a viable option. The third option is a total crackdown on any and all political movement...

…stinian Prime Minister. Rami Hamdallah resigns from his post. Massive demonstrations in Egypt against President Morsi. Egyptian Army removes President Morsi from power. Resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Washington facilitated by President Obama and Secretary of S...

…nai withdrawal was entering its final stage. I organized a full-scale military exercise on the roughly one-third of the Egyptian desert we still held, knowing that we’d no longer have the room to do so after the final withdrawal. It was the largest exercise I'd ever commanded. Th...

…and-forth that some noted reflected a true, if messy, democratic process taking root. But administration officials and Egyptian activists note worrying signs. The military core of Mr. Mubarak’s government has “reasserted itself again,” a senior administration official said. “We...

…rected against Israel, because of the breakdown in law and order in recent months. The attacks on the pipeline bringing Egyptian gas to Israel, and the recent terror attack in Eilat, are testimony to this. So while the "Shia crescent" may have suffered a strategic setback as a re...

…sion on the Gaza conflict: the Goldstone report. 31 May 2010 Gaza Flotilla Incident. 25 January 2011 Beginning of the Egyptian uprising. 11 February 2011 — President Mubarak of Egypt resigns. 15 March 2011 Beginning of the Syrian uprising. 4 May 2011 In Cairo, Palestinian Auth...

…ed a war against Israel that ended in a political stand-off between Israel and its Arab adversaries. In November 1977, Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat broke Arab unity when he— in a move which stunned the world—flew to Israel and addressed the Knesset in a bid for a peaceful r...