Posted by seumasach on July 8, 2013
7th July, 2013
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official Yasser Abd Rabboh called on Hamas to reevaluate its regional position Sunday, now that Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy, its main Islamic ally, has been toppled. “The victory of the revolution in Egypt and the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood warrants [such] reflection,” he told Palestinian state radio.
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Posted by seumasach on July 3, 2013
This army statement seems to be a reference to precisely this issue: “We swear to God that we will sacrifice even our blood for Egypt and its people, to defend them against any terrorist, radical or fool,”
Morsy role at Syria rally seen as tipping point for Egypt army
3rd July, 2013
Army concern about the way President Mohamed Morsy was governing Egypt reached tipping point when the head of state attended a rally packed with hardline fellow Islamists calling for holy war in Syria, military sources said.
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Posted by seumasach on June 21, 2013
“During her meetings, Patterson, according to Egyptian and Western sources, has been stressing three points: Washington does not wish to see Egypt go through either a military coup or a forced interruption of the democratically-elected president’s term; that it is not too late for the elected president and the opposition to work out a compromise deal; that there is considerable room for improvement in Morsi’s management of the nation’s affairs, especially the economy; and that there is also a need for the opposition to forge a united front and vision for Egypt’s future.”
US appears to be working on orderly transition from MB rule
20th June, 2013
Egypt’s defence and interior ministers have turned down a proposal by President Mohamed Morsi to prepare security forces for a possible declaration of a state of emergency should planned 30 June anti-government demonstrations turn violent, government sources told Ahram Online on Thursday.
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Posted by seumasach on June 21, 2013
20th June, 2013
Egypt’s opposition ‘Rebel’ signature campaign on Thursday announced that it had reached its target of 15 million citizens’ signatures in support of a “withdrawal of confidence” from Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.
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Posted by seumasach on April 16, 2013
An outsider’s perspective
Koert Debeuf
12thApril,2013
The day Mohamed Morsi was elected as the first civilian president of Egypt in June last year most reform minded people were hopeful. With many leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood Morsi spent many years in prison. No doubt they would do everything to change this ‘society of paranoia’, wouldn’t they? In his first speech as elected president Morsi also promised to form an inclusive government and to appoint a female and a Coptic vice-president. The main question back in June was how Morsi would deal with the army. In a ‘mini-coup’ the army curtailed the president’s position and absolved the People’s Assembly.
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Posted by seumasach on March 28, 2013
Egypt’s NSF calls for mass rally in solidarity with summoned activists
27th March, 2013
Main opposition group holds President Mohamed Morsi culpable for ‘divisions’ and ‘bloodshed’ in Egypt, accusing him of fascism in fierce attack
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Posted by seumasach on March 22, 2013
19th March, 2013
Though President Morsi’s fondest Western cultural creations are apparently “Good Morning America” and the original (1968) version of Planet of the Apes, to observe Muslim Brotherhood practice since the revolution one cannot help but be reminded of the Bard himself: “We at the height are ready to decline. There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.”
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Posted by seumasach on March 19, 2013
18th March, 2013
Confident of navigating his country’ s post-revolution transition, Egypt’s first elected President Mohamed Morsy arrived in India on Monday to anchor a special relationship and flag his country’s ambition of joining the ranks of the world’s “emerging countries.”
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Posted by seumasach on March 17, 2013
“The presidency and government moved urgently and sent a high-level delegation to the United Arab Emirates to demand the release of detainees accused of belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood weeks ago, but has neglected to address the situation of Egyptians who have been assaulted in Libya,” the opposition group said.
16th March, 2013
Source tells Ahram Online that the embassy repeatedly requested protection from Egyptian authorities against recurrent attacks, in the face of a controversy about the death of a Christian Egyptian in Libya
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Posted by seumasach on March 4, 2013
3rd March, 2013
Sound of gunfire continued to ring around the security directorate area in central Port Said into the early hours of Sunday night as several media outlets reported that police and army soldiers have been exchanging fire at the end of a tense day in the Suez Canal city.
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Posted by seumasach on March 2, 2013
28th February, 2013
With the country’s second post-revolution parliamentary polls around the corner, Egyptian opposition parties are stepping up their opposition to what they see as Egypt’s “undemocratic” electoral setting, arguing that the current legal and political environment is not conducive to free and fair elections.
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