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… imposed on them, the young Arabs instead criticized how America reacted to them. (President Obama’s failure to support Egyptian revolutionaries until after Mubarak was clearly a goner, and his inconsistency helping Libya’s rebels, but not Syria’s, were both widely criticized.) B...

…ill be no attempt to hijack the constitutional reform process afterward. "The new constitution has to be written by all Egyptians," says Essam Erian, a top Brotherhood leader. "No one group should have a louder voice than the others." This makes the Islamists look responsible and...

…East, and as locked in combat until the end with the west and its clients. These included Saudi Arabia, Hosni Mubarak's Egypt, and above all, Israel. However, the alliance always had a rather obvious flaw: while presenting itself as an inclusive, representative camp, it was an al...

…llenges to its security. Given the decisiveness, and speed, of our victory in 1967, there seemed no immediate danger of Egypt’s risking another full-scale war. In Israel, where Golda Meir had become Prime Minister after Eshkol’s death from a heart attack, there was also little ap...

…e deep sense of apprehension in Israel in the weeks before the war. Even now, it appeared, there was a concern that the Egyptians might reclaim the parts of the Sinai which we had captured. When the armored column got close to Gebel Libni, I pulled our Jeep aside and headed for...

…For others its a bid to stop the hemorrhage of bright citizens and cash fleeing to Dubai. All of them ought to do more. Egypt, with its unemployed masses, could make use of Dubai's incentives for foreign investment. Syria might adopt its free trade ways. Iraq and Israel could use...

The shimon Post ~ Presidential Press Bulletin 17 November, 2011 Article 1. NYT U.S. Hones Warnings to Egypt as Military Stalls Transition David D. Kirkpatrick and Steven Lee Myers Article 2. NYT Europe’s Contagion Editorial Article 3. | New York Post High stakes in Syria...

…e big bets, administrations don’t. Here are some ideas: 1. Iran — next president will be forced to make a big bet. 2. Egypt — Importnace is clear. Our response has been pitiful. Small and irrelevant. Obama is letting his team over analize and organizational dynamics are pushing...

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… The resolution's implementation would be the responsibility of the UN and Israel/Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt. To succeed, representatives of world powers may have to serve as even- handed observers. The international focus on the Goldstone Report elaborating Isr...

…ave foreign aid to Mubarak. Was that a bad idea? DP: That aid dates back to the utterly different circumstances of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty of 1979 and became progressively more wrong- headed. It should long ago have been discontinued. More broadly, I believe in aid for eme...

…vendor in Tunisia refused to pay a police bribe, then immolated himself, which inspired a revolution there, and next in Egypt, spreading into Arab Spring, which ultimately inspired American Autumn in 2011. Inspired by the Yippies attempt to levitate the Pentagon, pie-thrower Aron...

…rs later, the picture was clearer, and more worrying with each new report from back home. Surprise attacks by Syria and Egypt — armies we’d not just defeated, but humiliated, six years earlier — had pinned down and pushed back our forces on the Golan Heights and in the Sinai. Wit...

TB: Give us the historical context. DP: The modern era for Muslims began with Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798. Muslims experienced a great shock at seeing how advanced the blue-eyed peoples from the north had become. It would be roughly analogous to the Eskimos coming down...

…and-forth that some noted reflected a true, if messy, democratic process taking root. But administration officials and Egyptian activists note worrying signs. The military core of Mr. Mubarak’s government has “reasserted itself again,” a senior administration official said. “We...