Epstein Secrets

to procure both energy and influence in Africa. Trouble is, Beijing's see-no- evil-hear-no-evil approach has propped up rogue governments in Sudan, Zimbabwe and elsewhere. It's deadened incentives to build competitive economies that rely on diverse sources of growth. And the dynamic has ushered in a new

with Tehran is as it was in the past, but there are efforts to repair it." The text of the interview follows: Al-Monitor: Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank are skeptical about the prospects of reconciliation. Are you confident that it will be implemented, in light of past failures? And why are the Pale

The twenty-first century began with a fraudulent Presidential election. And this is in the luckiest of nations. Elsewhere—in Russia, in Hungary, in Zimbabwe—the fragility of democratic aspiration is a brutal fact of history. To revisit the Arab Spring, one year later, is to celebrate popular awakening

oint out that a profoundly anti-democratic, even racist, political culture has become endemic among much of the Jewish EFTA00630432 population in the West Bank, and jeopardizes Israel proper. The explosion of settlements, encouraged and subsidized by both Labor and Likud governments, has led to a large and

niers, and disincentivized the Palestinians from negotiating a reasonable two-state solution. How dare states such as Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Iran, Bahrain, Syria, Belarus and other tyrannies too numerous to mention -- but if you want to see the list, just go over to the next building -- r

omen, and de facto discrimination against Israeli Arabs. Since the early 1970s, I have been a vocal and persistent opponent of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. And after the war in Lebanon, I protested the use of cluster bombs that, though lawful, unduly endanger the lives of civilians. I have neve