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Barack admits US role in 1953 Iran coup

US President Barack Obama has admitted US involvement in the 1953 coup in Iran which overthrew the democratically elected government of premier Mohammad Mossadegh. ..

In speech at Cairo University Barack Obama outlines US foreign policy

Cairo, 4 June - US President Barack Obama delivered a skilfully packaged speech aiming at the hearts and minds of US allies, but carefully avoiding all key issues. Addressing a selected audience assembled at Cairo University, Obama told the world that the Bush-era feeling of a “clash of civilizations” had been thoroughly misguided. To mark the change he paid his greatest respects to Islam as a religion and a culture, calling for mutual respect and invoking mutual interests. Obama displ..

MB Chairman Will Respond to Obama’s Speech on Saturday

The Chairman has stressed earlier to the “the Voice of America” radio that he welcomes Obama and everyone coming to Egypt, but Obama has inherited a great responsibility after his predecessors, therefore we are awaiting his stance from two cases in particular...

katatni Praises Obama’s Speech, Urges For Real Change in US Policies

Dr. Mohammed Saad El-Katatni, head of the Muslim Brotherhood Parliamentary Bloc and one of the attendees of President Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo today, stressed to in an exclusive statement to Ikhwanweb that the speech "has many positive aspects, among them is his call to work and cooperate for the good of humanity". Katatni added that Muslims are awaiting the actual translation of these words told by Obama into change of US policies. ..

Agriculture ministry: Setters systematically ruin harvest season in WB

GAZA, (PIC)-- The ministry of agriculture in Gaza Strip has charged the Jewish settlers in the West Bank of systematically ruining the Palestinian harvest season in the West Bank...

Gov’t provides UN fact-finding commitee with evidence for Israeli war crimes

GAZA, (PIC)-- The Palestinian government in Gaza provided Tuesday the visiting UN fact-finding committee with photos, documents and evidence related to the Israeli war crimes committed during the last war on the Gaza Strip...

Khreisha: PA security formed to protect Israel and liquidate resistance

RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- The second deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council Dr. Hassan Khreisha has opined that the PA security apparatuses were formed to protect Israel’ security and to liquidate Palestinian resistance...

IOA distributes new demolition orders of Palestinian homes

TOBAS, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation authority on Tuesday informed a number of house owners in various areas of Tobas district that their homes would be demolished within 48 hours...

Four Palestinians wounded in IOF shelling

BEIT LAHIA, (PIC)-- Four Palestinians were wounded at dawn Wednesday when Israeli occupation forces stationed north of the Gaza Strip opened artillery fire at the Bedouin village north of the Strip...

Mizeini: No progress in Shalit file unless demands are met

GAZA, (PIC)-- Dr. Osama Al-Mizeini, one of Hamas’s political leaders, has asserted that Israel’s change of the official in charge of the issue of its captured soldier Gilad Shalit would not achieve any progress in the exchange file unless resistance’s demands were met...

Hamas: PA security intensified arrest campaigns in search of a new Qassam cell

RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- The Hamas Movement in the West Bank said Wednesday that the PA security apparatuses intensified in the past few days their arrest campaigns in the ranks of Hamas cadres in order to know the whereabouts of the Qassam Brigades’ commander in Tulkarem Mohamed Karyoush and members of his cell...

Hamas: Obama’s address to the Muslim world will be judged through his sincerity

GAZA, (PIC)-- The Hamas Movement stated Wednesday that the speech which US president Barack Obama intends to deliver to the Muslim world in Cairo would be judged through his seriousness about supporting the justice of the Palestinian cause and respecting the Palestinian people’s choices and will..

Obama’s subtle shift on Islamism

I’m really not going to pre-game The Speech. But I do want to note that without making a big deal about it, President Obama has already introduced a subtle and potentially extremely important shift into American discourse about Islamism. In an interview with NPR, Obama offered these comments on Hamas:..

Gov’t committee against siege invites Obama to visit Gaza

It asked Obama to pressure Israel to open the crossings and lift the siege in order to reconstruct what Israel had destroyed during its latest war on Gaza and to save thousands of families from displacement and living in the open without shelter. ..

Cairo prepares for King Tut Obama

A souvenir shop-owner displays a recently-made metal plaque for sale to tourists reading ’Obama, New Tutankhamun of the World’, in Cairo’s main tourist market ahead of President Barack Obama’s planned June 4 speech in Cairo. Hieroglyphics at base of plaque were claimed by the vendor to spell the name ’Obama’. (AP photo/Ben Curtis)..

Will Islamists Be Part Of The President’s New Dialogue?

Two stories this morning highlight what I think is a key question about President Obama’s speech tomorrow in Cairo. The first is the news that, “under pressure from the United States, the Secretariat-General of the lower house of the Egyptian Parliament invited ten members of the Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc to attend Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo on Thursday.”..

H.R. groups: Ban Ki-Moon ignores Palestinian blood in Gaza

Five Palestinian human rights groups have accused Tuesday the secretary-general of the UN Ban Ki-Moon of violating the charter of his organization after he advanced political considerations over the lives of thousands of Palestinian civilians killed and wounded with IOF troops’ bullets during the war on Gaza last January...

Ten MB MPs Are Invited for Obama’s Speech

He pointed out that that the invitation to the MB MPs came as a comparison between the US administration and the Egyptian regime, especially since there are pressures from the American media on its president to meet with all effective political and opposition powers in Egypt, and the Muslim Brotherhood in particular which represents 20% of the Parliament, as they stressed that if President Obama only met with the Egyptian regime then he will be supporting a dictatorship...

Demonstrators Against Obama’s Visit to Cairo Arrested

Hundreds of undercover policeman and anti-riot police were deployed in the place of the event and in the streets leading to downtown Cairo. Many of them were seeing heading to the front of Talaat Harb Street which was full of the vans of Central Security Forces and policemen as they told people not to stand in front of shops...

Obama To Kick Off Mideast Trip

President Obama leaves tonight for his third major international trip, stopping first in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a recently announced addition. From Riyadh, he will travel to Cairo, where he’ll give a major speech on U.S.-Middle East relations, a talk he promised to stage from a Middle East capital sometime in his first hundred days in office (he’s a little..