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Ahead of a watershed U.N. vote expected in September on Palestinian statehood, The Israel Project (TIP) is releasing an interactive map, “United Nations General Assembly: Attitudes on Israel/Palestine Interactive Map and Fact Sheets,” detailing U.N. member states key to the outcome of the measure.
Israel fears that the current Egyptian government could be replaced with a repressive, hostile regime that causes regional instability.
Feb. 1 – The Muslim Brotherhood (Arabic: al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun) is Egypt’s strongest and oldest Islamist group and has spawned numerous offshoots such as Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. In Egypt’s current political upheaval, the radical anti-West, anti-Israel group backs the anti-government demonstrators and said they should be prepared to do away with Israel.
J. Laszio Founder Israel Project
State Deparment Photo by Michael Gross Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, PA President Mahmoud Abbas, Special Envoy for Middle East Peace George Mitchell and U.S. Secretary Hillary Clinton meeting on September 2, 2010 * Netanyahu: I call on President Abbas to continue talks * Notable increase in attacks against Israelis; pregnant woman shot * TV networks see settlers’ building as “publicity stunt”
