Lewis Millett; awarded Medal of Honor after bayonet charge Nov 19, 2009
They were returning from a peacekeeping operation on the Sinai Peninsula in the Middle East. The loss inspired Colonel Millett to write a poem titled A Soldier s Prayer. (Boston Globe)
Issues: Borders and settlements Nov 18, 2009
Fast forward to 1967, when Israel captured both the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as Syria's Golan Heights and Egypt's Sinai peninsula. STABLE AND UNSTABLE BORDERS. (BBC News -- Africa)
Death for Egypt drug smugglers Nov 13, 2009
The verdict, handed down by a court in al-Tor in the Sinai peninsula, has to be approve by Egypt's top cleric before it can be carried out. One of the men had identified the other three as accomplices after 173kg of the drug was found in his truck. (BBC News -- Africa)
Veterans Day is full of reverence, remembrance Nov 13, 2009
The first time was in 2003 to the Sinai Peninsula. The second time was in 2005 to Ramadi, Iraq. (Muscatine Journal, IO)
Egyptian patrol ambushed by smugglers Nov 11, 2009
The security force, reinforced with two armored cars and nearly a dozen police vans, had acted on a tip looking for a smugglers' warehouse in the mountainous area in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, just south of the border town of Rafah. The force seized 200 tons of cement that the smugglers had planned to take to Gaza through a network of tunnels, a local security official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. (Florida Today)
Milk machines? Oct 3, 2009
The Bedouin of the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula have long been convinced that the milk of camels can cure almost any internal disease, driving bacteria from the body. The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations reports that doctors in parts of Russia and Kazakhstan often prescribe it to convalescing patients. (BBC News -- Europe)
The Camp David Syndrome Sep 26, 2009
Under those agreements, Israel agreed to withdraw her forces from the Sinai Peninsula that she had seized in the lightning Six-Day War of 1967, and re-captured during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. That war had been launched by Egypts Sadatshowing the characteristic respect for other faiths that Muslims habitually show-- the Jewish High Holy Days of that year. (Townhall.com)
Israeli Official: Palestinians Entitled to East Jerusalem Sep 19, 2009
When Israel agreed to evacuate the entire Sinai Peninsula, which is part of Egypt, Sadat went to Israel in 1977 and peace was agreed. Absent a similar pledge from Israel to evacuate all occupied territories, which President Barack Obama has urged Israel to do, Faisal wrote in the International Herald Tribune, Saudi Arabia and the other Arab countries could not offer what Israelis most desire regional recognition. (Newsmax)
Likud lacks will to halt settlements Sep 7, 2009
As he said that night, Feiglin believes the 1978 Camp David Accords signed by Likud's first prime minister, Menachem Begin which saw Israel give up the Sinai Peninsula for peace with Egypt were an unforgivable betrayal. In 1997, Feiglin was sentenced to six months in prison for sedition as a result of his protests against the Oslo accords that granted limited self-government to Palestinians. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Arabic television lauds Jewish Egyptian diva Sep 5, 2009
She did not give a single press interview after leaving show business, refusing to comment on any of the upheavals in the Arab-Israeli conflict, ranging from the war of 1967, when Egypt's Sinai Peninsula was occupied by Israel, to the October War of 1973, and finally, the Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement of 1978. Her own explanation for seclusion was that she was aging and wanted her fans to remember her only as they saw her on the silver screen - young, bold and beautiful. (Asia Times Online)
Podhoretz Asks: Why are Jews liberals? Sep 3, 2009
The narrative changes, he writes, after the 1967 Six-Day War, when Israel defeated the combined forces of Egypt, Jordan and Syria, capturing the Golan Heights, Sinai Peninsula, West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. David had become a Goliath, and, Podhoretz believes, the left preferred that Israel go back to being David. (CBS News -- Entertainment)
Middle Eastern Odyssey Part IV Aug 30, 2009
Leaving Aqaba, Jordan, the next morning on a huge ferry (no parting of the waters, I m afraid) with a couple of hundred others, we head to Dahab, Egypt, on the Sinai Peninsula ... Prior to several terrorist acts that have killed or harmed people in the Red Sea resorts over the past few years, the Sinai Peninsula was historically known as a peaceful haven in the tumultuous Middle East. (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
Egypt: Israel Gas Deal Inflames Opposition Aug 13, 2009
Extracted from fields in Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula, gas is pumped via submarine pipeline from the coastal town Al-Arish to the Israeli port city Ashkelon. The first accord, signed in 2005, allowed EMG to sell 1. (allAfrica.com)
Astronaut Sees 'Effects of Human Destruction of Earth' Jul 28, 2009
July 24: Part of the Sinai Peninsula, featuring the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba, are seen from the space shuttle Endeavour. July 24: Part of the Sinai Peninsula, featuring the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba, are seen from the space shuttle Endeavour. (Fox News)
Egypt: 230 Death Sentences in Six Months Jul 17, 2009
21, 11 Bedouin people in the Sinai Peninsula were sentenced to death for killing the head of a rival clan. Again, on Jun. (allAfrica.com)
Backgrounder: Brief introduction of Sharm El Sheikh Jul 11, 2009
Located at the very southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula in northeastern Egypt, Sharm El Sheikh is on the coastal strip between the Red Sea and Mount Sinai ... Sharm El Sheikh remained under Israeli control until the Sinai Peninsula was returned to Egypt in 1982 after the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty of 1979. (Xinhuanet, China)
Tunnel vision Jun 30, 2009
She says there has been little investment in local communities since the Sinai Peninsula was handed back to Egypt by Israel in 1982 under the terms of their peace deal. "The region is one of the poorest in the country and there's a real need for development. "The government has had many social and economic plans but these never really managed to bring any facilities: water, electricity and so on. (BBC News -- Africa)
The New-Old Rivalry: Egypt Versus Iran Jun 23, 2009
In mid-April, Egypt announced it had arrested 49 members and sympathizers of an alleged Hezbollah cell who were planning terror attacks against Israeli tourists in the Sinai Peninsula, as well as looking to foment a coup in Cairo. A barrage of invective for Hezbollah followed, with one state-controlled Egyptian paper blasting Nasrallah as a "bandit" and a "monkey sheik.". (CBS News)
Fewer become refugees but many who do find trouble Jun 18, 2009
Egyptian border guards shot and killed more than 30 African migrants trying to cross Egypt's mountainous Sinai peninsula to reach Israel. One victim was an Eritrean woman traveling with her daughters, 8 and 10 years old. (Yahoo News -- Politics)
Netanyahu's Palestinian stance seen as a start Jun 17, 2009
Yet for all the criticism of Netanyahu, some of Israel's most important concessions for peace in the past - including its withdrawals from the Sinai peninsula and the Gaza Strip - have been carried out by right-leaning leaders. Obama's next moves could well determine whether Netanyahu finally makes the leap taken by past Israeli peace makers or remains trapped in a futile attempt to please both the White House and his own hawkish coalition. (San Francisco Chronicle)
7 arrested in connection to Cairo blast May 24, 2009
But from 2004 to 2006, a string of bombings in Sharm el-Sheik and other resorts in the Sinai Peninsula killed 120 people. (Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. (WSVN-TV Miami, FL)
Science Fair May 16, 2009
Friday, May 15, 2009 Coffee Break: May 15. Delicate ahead for shuttle crew. (USA Today -- Tech)
Suggest a wake-up song for Atlantis shuttle astronauts May 14, 2009
By Michelle KesslerPhoto: Among the first group of still images downlinked by the STS-125 crewmembers onboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis on May 12, 2009 was this high oblique scene looking toward the Sinai Peninsula and the Mediterranean Sea. The Red Sea is just out of frame at bottom right. (USA Today -- Tech)
Tenuous Moves For White House On Israel May 14, 2009
The recent Gaza incursion by Israel led to a flight of refugees across the Sinai Peninsula. Egypt accused Hamas of orchestrating the exodus in order to provoke a border conflict. (CBS News -- World)
Wanda Sykes Aims Low-Blow at Rush May 13, 2009
Egypt, after initial success in crossing the Suez Canal and breaking Israel's Bar Lev Line, had reconquered a nice hunk of the huge Sinai Peninsula which Israel had taken almost without a fight in the 1967 Six-Day War. The narrator at one point said something very close to, "At the time of the truce Egypt had retained control of the Suez Canal and much of the territory it had lost to Israel in 1967.". (Newsmax)
Netanyahu looks for Arab ally against Iran: Israeli experts May 12, 2009
JERUSALEM, May 11 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet his host Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Monday at Sharm el-Sheikh in the Sinai Peninsula. Local experts widely believed that the Iranian issue would be one of the key topics discussed by the two leaders, saying Netanyahu's first trip abroad since assuming office is aimed at looking for Arab ally against Iran. (Xinhuanet, China)
PHOTOS: Ancient Egypt Temples Found at Gateway Fortress May 2, 2009
May 1, 2009--Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II (right) offers gifts to Geb, god of earth, in a 3,000-year-old carving discovered in the largest mud-brick temple yet found on northeastern 's northern Sinai Peninsula (). The landmark is among four ancient temples discovered at a site near the Egyptian border near the Suez Canal, the country's archaeology agency announced on April 21. (National Geographic)
U.S. Army Maj. Gen. to be keynote speaker at graduation Apr 28, 2009
Returning to the 82nd Airborne, he deployed in 1981 as a member of the first multinational force to the Sinai Peninsula. Harrell was sent to Grenada during "Operation Urgent Fury." In 1984, he was assigned to the 10th Special Forces Group at Fort Devens, Mass. (East Tennessean, TN)
ARABS VS. IRAN Apr 28, 2009
This month, Egyptian authorities announced the arrest of a 10-member cell in the Sinai Peninsula and then disclosed that since November they have nabbed 49 Palestinian and Lebanese Hezbollah operatives. Cairo says that the terrorists plotted to attack beach resorts in order to chase away European and Israeli tourists. (New York Post -- Opinions)
US envoy Mitchell makes case for two-state solution in Mideast Apr 17, 2009
In recent days, however, Egypt has been preoccupied with what it claims is an attempt by Hezbollah, which is supported by Iran, to launch terrorist attacks at Egypt's tourist spots in the Sinai peninsula. Egypt has arrested at least 25 suspected Hezbollah-backed militants. (Boston Globe)
Hezbollah alleges Egypt vendetta Apr 16, 2009
Egypt says it is holding 25 Hezbollah suspects and searching for 24 more in the Sinai peninsula. Cairo's claims are "fabricated" to "sully Hezbollah's image", Sheikh Naim Qassem told AFP news agency. (BBC News -- Africa)
Egypt strikes out at Iran's expanding reach Apr 15, 2009
Egyptian police have arrested 25 suspects and are hunting for another 24 in the Sinai peninsula, where officials say the Iranian-sponsored group Hezbollah was operating a covert cell ... A manhunt is under way for 24 more suspects believed to be hiding in the Sinai peninsula's mountainous interior. (Christian Science Monitor)
* Egypt accuses Hezbollah of plotting attack in Sinai Apr 15, 2009
Egypt released new details on Monday of what it said was a Hezbollah plot to smuggle weapons into the Gaza Strip, to attack Israeli tourist sites in the Sinai Peninsula and to fire on ships in the Suez Canal. Officials said the police were hunting for 10 Lebanese suspects believed to be hiding in the mountainous terrain of central Sinai. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Egypt has Hezbollah in its sights Apr 15, 2009
According to the Egyptian Public Prosecutor, Hezbollah was monitoring the Suez Canal, Egypt's borders with Gaza and tourist installations in the Sinai Peninsula, channeling information back. to its leadership in Lebanon. (Asia Times Online)
Peres: Israel Prepared to Strike Iran Apr 14, 2009
Peress remarks were the first official Israeli response after Cairo announced that a Hizbullah-linked cell was plotting to attack Egyptian institutions and Israeli tourists on the Sinai Peninsula. The Israeli leader referred to Hizbullah as an Iranian agent, -- characterizing its chief, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, as a man who wraps himself in sheikh's robes, yet is willing to kill. (Newsmax)
Egypt 'hunts Hezbollah suspects' Apr 14, 2009
Egyptian security forces are scouring the Sinai Peninsula for 13 alleged Hezbollah operatives, officials say ... Egypt has been under pressure from Israel to curb weapons smuggling through tunnels from the Sinai peninsula under the border with Gaza. (BBC News -- Africa)
Egypt-Hezbollah standoff dents Egypt-Iran relations Apr 14, 2009
CAIRO, April 13 (Xinhua) -- The arrest of some 49 Hezbollah agents who were accused of plotting to carry out attacks against Israeli tourists at resorts in the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula portends a verbal war between Egypt and Iran in the future and a worsening of already stale diplomatic relations between the two countries, Egyptian experts said. The experts -- fanned by statements made by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on TV in which he confessed that the main suspect in the arrested group of... (Xinhuanet, China)
Hezbollah cell in Egypt targeted Israeli tourists Apr 13, 2009
CAIRO - Hezbollah agents operating in Egypt were plotting to attack Israeli tourists at resorts in the Sinai Peninsula, Egyptian and Israeli officials said yesterday. Egypt announced recently that a cell of 49 men with links to Hezbollah were planning attacks aimed at destabilizing the country. (Boston Globe)
* Egyptian officials accuse Hezbollah of planning attacks Apr 10, 2009
The statement said the group had been trying to monitor Egypts Suez Canal, its border with the Gaza Strip and tourist installations in the Sinai Peninsula and was sending information back to Hezbollah. It also said the group had been establishing links with criminal elements to forge passports and setting up businesses to cover for spying activities. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Jews in Israel and worldwide prepare for Passover Apr 8, 2009
Israel also renewed a travel warning urging tourists not to go to Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, citing threats of militant attacks. The Sinai is a popular destination for Israeli travelers, despite past attacks on Israeli and Western targets there. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Israel says militants have smuggled 70 tons of weapons into Gaza Mar 30, 2009
The weapons are coming in through Gaza's porous border with Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, despite improved Egyptian interdiction, Diskin said. His remarks were reported by meeting participants who spoke on condition of anonymity because the session was closed. (Boston Globe)
30 yrs on, Israeli-Egypt peace treaty still critical Mar 29, 2009
The peace treaty, which was signed on the White House lawn in the presence of then U.S. President Jimmy Carter on March 26, 1979,required both countries to cease hostile activity and demilitarize the Sinai Peninsula. Israel withdrew to the pre-1967 border, gave up military bases, settlements, roads and the Sinai oil fields in return for normalized relations with Egypt. (Xinhuanet, China)
Sudan says Israel behind air attack Mar 28, 2009
But until now, Israel has focused mainly on blocking what is believed to be a main route - smuggling through tunnels under the border between Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. During Israel's 22-day offensive against Hamas in Gaza this year, Israeli warplanes repeatedly pounded the tunnels on the Gaza side, destroying many, though most were quickly repaired. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Sudan suspects Israel in raids Mar 28, 2009
But until now, Israel has focused mainly on blocking what is believed to be a main route smuggling through tunnels under the border between Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. advertisement. (MSNBC -- International)
Israel silent on Sudan air raid Mar 28, 2009
The network said Israel had learned of plans to move weapons through Sudan north to Egypt, then across the Sinai Peninsula and through tunnels into the besieged Gaza Strip. Thirty-nine people riding in the 17-truck convoy were killed, CBS said. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Uneven marking of Camp David deal Mar 27, 2009
Under the deal, Israel agreed to withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula which it had occupied in whole or in part since 1967 and Egypt agreed to demilitarise the area and normalise relations with Israel. As well as political ties, the peace treaty opened economic relations between Egypt and Israel and the US provided vast amounts of financial and military aid to Egypt. (BBC News -- Africa)
Three decades on Mar 26, 2009
Under the deal, Israel agreed to withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula which it had occupied in whole or in part since 1967. In return, Egypt agreed to demilitarise the area and normalise relations with Israel. (BBC News)
The Cairo Key Mar 10, 2009
The Sinai peninsula has become an open arena for smugglers and terrorist organizations, from Al-Qaeda to Hamas to the emissaries of Iran. Some of the Beduin tribes have practically become armed militias. (Jerusalem Post, Israel)
* Egyptian police arrest three after market blast Feb 24, 2009
A series of bombings killed scores of people in Red Sea resorts on the Sinai peninsula from 2004 to 2006 that were blamed on militants loyal to al-Qaeda. Sundays attack took place outside a hotel across the square from the Hussein mosque, one of Egypts oldest places of worship. (Taipei Times, Taiwan)
Three held over Cairo bombing as conspiracy theories circulate Feb 24, 2009
No one has claimed responsibility but the media has been speculating the perpetrators could be anyone from Sinai Peninsula Bedouins to Pakistani militants. The MP for the area hit by the blast, Haider Baghdady, from the ruling NDP party, said Iran may have been responsible, an accusation likely to exacerbate tensions between Cairo and Tehran. (Independent)
Teen killed by Cairo bomb was on class trip Feb 24, 2009
But from 2004 to 2006, a string of bombings in Sharm el-Sheik and other resorts in the Sinai Peninsula killed 120 people. Several shopowners in Khan el-Khalili said they now worry that foreigners will avoid the bazaar. (MSNBC -- International)
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French tourist killed and 20 wounded in Egypt attack Feb 23, 2009
The blast was the first fatal attack on tourists in Egypt since bombs killed at least 23 people at an Egyptian resort in the Sinai peninsula in 2006. Sunday's bomb went off near the 14th-century Khan el-Khalili market in eastern Cairo, where tourists shop for trinkets and sit at outdoor cafes. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Tourist dead, 22 hurt in bazaar bombing Feb 23, 2009
" The bombs went off outside the Al-Hussein hotel, just across the square from the Hussein mosque, which dates back to 1154 AD and is among the Egyptian capital's oldest places of worship. The head of Cairo's Al-Azhar University -- Sunni Islam's highest religious authority -- condemned the bombing in a statement carried by the state MENA news agency. "Those who carried out this criminal act are traitors to their own religion and their nation, and they are distorting the image of Islam which... (The Age, Australia -- World)
Blast in Cairo kills 1 Feb 23, 2009
Three separate strikes killed dozens in the southern Sinai peninsula. Those were attributed to troubles with the Sinai's disaffected Bedouins. (International Herald Tribune)
Grenade attack kills French tourist in Cairo Feb 23, 2009
There were, however, a number of attacks in recent years against resorts in the Sinai peninsula, including one in Sharm el-Sheik in 2005 that killed more than 60 people. Tourism is one Egypt's major sources of foreign income. (Globe and Mail)
Egypt arrests three over deadly bazaar bombing Feb 23, 2009
A series of bombings killed scores of people in Red Sea resorts on the Sinai peninsula from 2004 to 2006 that were blamed on militants loyal to Al-Qaeda. Egypt was struck by a spate of deadly attack on tourists by Islamic militant groups in the 1990s that dealt a savage blow to the vital tourism sector. (Yahoo! Asia News)
History's lesson Feb 7, 2009
Thirty years ago, he concluded a peace treaty with Egypt, which involved Israel withdrawing from the Sinai peninsula - a huge area Israel had conquered in the 1967 war. In the nineties, in his first tenure as prime minister, Mr Netanyahu agreed to hand over parts of the West Bank, and much of Hebron, to Palestinian control. (BBC News -- Africa)
