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…’d followed Dayan as defense minister, Shimon Peres. The analysis of military intelligence included separate teams for Egypt and Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, Iraq and other neighboring states, as well as other countries and superpower relations. It relied on all our raw intelligen...

…ge for how they have been treated by the Shia-dominated post- Saddam Iraqi government.) Last week's Metrojet bombing in Egypt, the suicide attacks Thursday in a Shiite neighborhood of Beirut, and yesterday atrocities in Paris all demonstrate an unexpected level of sophistication...

…ivil society, it has the ability to rise to this challenge. If it has neither, it will have real problems, which is why Egypt 1s struggling. China leads in providing its youth bulge with education, infrastructure and jobs, but lags in unleashing freedom and curiosity. India is th...

… the more favorable conditions found in Tunisia. One of the biggest differences between the two countries is that every Egyptian president since 1952 has been a military officer. Eighteen generals lead the Post-Mubarak interim government

the outgoing head of the Arab League and the front-runner in polls to succeed Mubarak as president when Egypt holds elections in November

…al with the conclusions of the 2002 U.N. Arab Human Development Report — produced by a group of Arab scholars led by an Egyptian — that said the Arab people are suffering from three huge deficits: a deficit of freedom

2011 -- The Nobel laureate Mohamed ElBaradei has stated his intention to “nominate myself” to be president of Egypt

…created a strong common interest for Israel and the moderate Arab countries — Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, Jordan, Egypt and perhaps even Turkey (which is not Arab). The focal interest is the struggle against radical Islamic terrorism and against Iran's hegemonic and nuclear...

…th the situation. White House sources tell us “it has literally fallen off the table” as an issue of focus. Is this now Egypt’s problem through which the US will send money/weapons? Libya total oil production (1980-2013) thousand barrels per day 2,000 1995 — total oil produc...

prompting Israel and Egypt to impose a blockade on people and most goods. It is a year since a Turkish flotilla challenged the siege and Israeli commandos killed nine activists aboard the ships

…y cosmetic changes to the old system. (This happened in Austria in 1848 and something very like it may be happening in Egypt today.) Others move into radicalism

… war. I believe Menachem Begin had it,as several years after the bitter 73' war he was able to make a daring peace with Egypt. Als lzhak Rabin,who now 20yrs ago, signed the Peace treaty with Jordan though in amidst a wave of terror. He faced huge internal rejection but it began t...

… tactics or plans,” I said, “what worries me is that we’re szil/ not looking at our overall approach to defense against Egypt. It’s as if we’ve forgotten that in 1967, when we captured Sinai, it was in order to have a buffer zone. We had /50 miles of sand between southern Israel...

…ct: That was fun , see you in 3 weeks FP Briefing non- classified 19 May, 2014 The National Interest Which Road Will Egypt Take? Kathryn Alexeeff Now Lebanon What Saudi-Iran talks could mean for Lebanon and the region Alex Rowell The Economist India's next prime minister: T...

…Asia does not relieve us of serious interests we have in ME. We announce a pivot to Asia when: Iran — moving to nukes Egypt — Mubarak is in a cage and new govt could be seriously anti-US Syria — disintegrating Iraq — could fragment KSA — ripe for revolution ME peace process...