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 It’s an absurdly vast house, among the largest in Manhattan, but the dining room is windowless, creating a hermetic or stop-time sense, broken only by the household staff ferrying in time-of-day-appropriate foods and beverages. In sweatshirt, draw-string pants, palm beach...

4.2.12 WC: 191694 middle of the music, because Soviet authorities tend to listen to the beginning and end of any music tape to assure that it does not contain forbidden material. I managed to get his statement back to the United States. Shortly thereafter he was released and cam...

…alon, December 8, 2011, http://www.salon.com/2011/12/08/how_bahrain works washington/; Akbar Shahid Ahmed, “How Wealthy Arab Gulf States Shape the Washington Influence Game,” Huffington Post, September 2, 2015, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/arab-gulf-states-washington_us_55...

… had stated that he has a personal commitment to bring peace to the Middle East. We, the Egyptians, and the rest of the Arab world tell him that we are ready for peace. We have the Arab Peace Initiative. This goes in line with the stated U.S. national interest. Washington's failu...

…to Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon and Iraq. Some critics, looking at the turmoil in Syria, Egypt, Lybia, claim that the warm Arab spring has turned into a cold winter. Tunisia, for example, the first of the Arab countries to overthrow their dictatorship, is on the edge of another civi...

…pular resistance spread to Mosul on Dec. 27. These protests erupted during a constitutional crisis and as an expanding Arab-Kurd conflict has become increasingly militarized. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani was incapacitated by a stroke on Dec. 17 and has been out of the countryf...

…ing to hang on. Just five miles inland from us, an Israeli settlement came under attack by an Iraqi force in the nearby Arab village of Qaqun. But inside Mishmar Hasharon, I had the almost surreal feeling that this great historical drama was something happening everywhere else b...

…cle 1. Wall Street Journal The New Cold War Bill Spindle and Margaret Coker APRIL 16, 2011 -- For three months, the Arab world has been awash in protests and demonstrations. It's being called an Arab Spring, harking back to the Prague Spring of 1968. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023458

…. Back in 2002, the U.S. had declined to get behind an offer from King Abdullah (then Crown Prince) to rally widespread Arab recognition for Israel in exchange for Israel's acceptance of borders that existed before the 1967 Six Day War—a potentially historic deal, as far as the S...

…n this context, U.N. General Assembly resolution 181 of 1947 that called for the establishment of a Jewish state and an Arab state. ¢ Acknowledge institutional and security reform, economic development and state-building efforts — especially in the West Bank, under the leadershi...

…s had entered Bahrain, but privately they concede that the actual number is considerably higher. If both Iran and Saudi Arabia see themselves responding to external threats and opportunities, some analysts, diplomats and democracy advocates see a more complicated picture. They sa...

… been an upswell of democracy. It has been a dramatic spike in tensions between two geopolitical titans, Iran and Saudi Arabia. This new Middle East cold war comes complete with its own spy- versus-spy intrigues, disinformation campaigns, shadowy proxy forces, supercharged state...

… fake valley, fake apartment-display ended in a pleasant sky- lit lobby, where representatives of the Cairo Amman Bank, Arab Islamic Bank, and Arab Bank sat in logoed glass cubicles, available to discuss financing for future purchases. And for the still-skeptical, there's a six-m...

…nothing. It wasn’t until well into 1949 that formal agreements were signed and “armistice line” borders drawn with the Arab states. By the measure that mattered most — survival — Israel had won and the Arab attackers had lost. Jordan did end up in control of the West Bank, as we...