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TEL AVIV – A senior Egyptian intelligence official derided Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to one of his main rivals in a newly leaked phone call, saying the Palestinian Authority chief is a “camel” who is old and stupid and that the Fatah party is “screwed” under his leadership.

Members of the Egyptian delegation to the United Nations blasted Hillary Clinton just a day after Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi met with both Clinton and Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump. They also had high praise for Trump—and while not an official endorsement, it is a positive outcome for Trump’s first and only meeting with Muslim world leaders thus far.

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will meet with both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton while the United Nations General Assembly is in session.

Donald Trump will meet with Egyptian President Abdel el-Sisi in New York city, say sources close to the Egyptian diplomatic delegation.

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The head of Austria’s anti-human trafficking force claims that much of the profit of people smugglers in the Middle East and North Africa is making its way into the bank accounts of Islamic State.

JAFFA, Israel – Egypt’s sectarian tensions came to a temporary halt on Monday, when a Christian butcher in the restive Alminia region offered his Muslim neighbors goats and calves free of charge for Eid al Adha.

The Haifa District Court on Thursday sentenced five Israelis to jail terms of between two-and-a-half and six years as part of a plea bargain for their role in attempting to set up a branch of Islamic State in the country.

Several Egyptian lawmakers have called for the prosecution of fellow MP Ilham Ajina after he said most Egyptian men suffer from impotence.

CAIRO — It was an outrageous argument, by any measure: Women should “reduce their sexual desires” because Egyptian men are “sexually weak.”

TEL AVIV – Elements of the Egyptian press are slamming the country’s supreme religious authority, Al Azhar institutions, for continuing to cultivate extremism despite the authority’s claim that it welcomes President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s call for a religious revolution to combat extremist Islamist ideology.

TEL AVIV – Israel’s newly appointed ambassador to Egypt, David Govrin, presented his credentials to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Wednesday, to the sounds of the Egyptian military band playing Israel’s national anthem.

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The US Department of State travel warning to Turkey, reissued Tuesday, relies on concrete evidence of imminent large-scale terror attacks to be carried out by Kurdish as well as Islamic militants, an Arab intelligence official told Breitbart Jerusalem.

There has been a steady and significant decline in terror attacks carried out by the Islamic State in the Sinai Peninsula in recent months, according to both Egyptian and Israeli sources.

The Egyptian government has decided to endorse a bill to crack down on female circumcision, making it punishable by up to 15 years’ imprisonment, Health Minister Ahmad Imad announced.

LOS ANGELES, California — Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton declared Sunday that the Iranian nuclear deal is the “worst act of appeasement in American history.” Bolton was speaking at the Luxe Hotel on Sunday for the American Freedom Alliance’s conference, titled “Islam and Western Civilization: Can They Coexist?”

TEL AVIV – Egyptian press has come out against the handshake snub by their country’s judoka, saying the Olympic athlete’s refusal to shake his Israeli opponent’s hand shows Egypt to be a “diseased culture” and only served the “Zionists” who leveraged the incident to portray Egyptians as “extremists and uncultured.”

Major churches across Egypt oppose a government bill regarding the building of churches in the country, according to Halim Boulous, a spokesman for the Egyptian Orthodox church.

JAFFA, Israel – A Cairo man has been arrested on charges of pushing his wife to her death from their fifth-story apartment window.

TEL AVIV – Egypt’s Judo Federation denied on Tuesday that Olympic athlete Islam El Shehaby had been sent home for refusing to shake the hand of his Israeli opponent after being defeated.

In his foreign policy speech on Monday, Donald Trump stated that he would “amplify the voice” of moderate Muslim reformers in the Middle East, saying, “Our Administration will be a friend to all moderate Muslim reformers in the Middle East, and will amplify their voices.”

An Iranian woman protested a ban on her countrywomen watching sports events live at an Olympic men’s volleyball match between Egypt and Iran this week. Security officials attempted to remove Darya Safai from the event after she unveiled a banner reading, “Let Iranian women enter their stadiums.”

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Israeli judoka Or Sasson on Saturday he is “the true face of Israel” after the athlete won an Olympic bronze medal in Rio on the day before.

TEL AVIV – Evan McMullin, a former undercover CIA agent who announced he will run as an independent in the U.S. presidential election in November, studied in Israel during his undergraduate degree.

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The French release of German-language bestseller Islamic Fascism has been cancelled because its French publisher was worried the book could empower the far right. Hamed Abdel-Samad said he could understand the decision if it were just based on security fears, but the author blasted publisher Piranha’s reasoning as “moral blackmail”.

Intelligence sources have confirmed to Fox News that Egypt has killed the leader of Islamic State forces in the Sinai Peninsula, Abu Dua al-Ansari, in an airstrike.

Egypt’s military said on Thursday it had killed Abu Duaa al-Ansari, whom it identified as the leader of the Sinai branch of Islamic State.

TEL AVIV – In a radical turn of events, Muslim writers from all over the Arab world are admitting that Islam itself is the problem, and that the only way to curb the terror carried out in the name of the religion is to conduct a fundamental overhaul of Islamic texts and their interpretations.

The Egyptian media has been full of reports of violence against and harassment of Christians all across the country. In May, a Muslim mob attacked Christian-owned houses and stripped an elderly Christian woman and paraded on the streets of the village.

PHILADELPHIA – Notoriously missing from Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech here at the Democratic National Convention was a list of any significant accomplishments from her time as Secretary of State.

Earlier this month, the Egyptian government began drafting mandatory anti-extremist sermons for Muslim clerics, complete with time limits to ensure speedy delivery with minimal ad-libbing. The program has not gone over well, with Egypt’s top scholars rejecting the sermons as too superficial and restrictive.

Socialist Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has used his primetime television show to condemn Pokemon Go, accusing the game of promoting “the culture of violence of capitalism” and linking a jihadist attack in Munich to the Japanese mobile phone game.

On a recent Sunday in southern Egypt, dozens of Coptic Christians gathered for mass next to the charred remains of a wooden structure they once used as a chapel.

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