Epstein Secrets

ther bureaucracies, and thus had no legitimacy. Marcus Aurelius was one thing; Tunisia's Zine el- Abidine Ben Ali, Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and Syria's Bashar al- Assad, quite another. Certainly, the Arab Spring has proved much: that there is no otherness to Arab civilization, that Arabs yearn for univers

r supply have diminished. There are three reasons. First, the most substantial fallout from the Arab world's recent upheaval is behind us. Syria's Bashar al-Assad continues to fight for survival and Yemen continues to flirt with failed-state status, but the Gulf's major oil-producing states are quite stable.

cracies, and thus had no legitimacy. Marcus Aurelius was one thing; Tunisia's Zine el- Abidine Ben Ali, Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and Syria's Bashar al- Assad, quite another. Certainly, the Arab Spring has proved much: that there is no otherness to Arab civilization, that Arabs yearn for universal values

The po 1/43 se PresidentiaPress ulletn 26 June, 2011 Article 1. NYT Building Boom in Gaza's Ruins Belies Misery That Remains Ethan Bronner Article 2. Article 3. Article 4. Herald Tribune Buying Into Palestinian Statehood Yossi Alpher, Colette Avital, Shlomo Gazit, and Mark Heller

s_subtle_shift_on_syria> =span style=""> Nicholas Noe </=> March 30, 2012 -- After one year of doubling d=wn on their support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Lebanon's Hezbol=ah has finally shifted its public position on the regime, albeit with great subtlety and in an extremely measured 6 EFTA_R1_0144

the anti-gove=nment protests in Syria that began in March 2011. Almost from the outset, he was especially fran= in equating the opposition and the Assad regime, urging -- even pleading =or -- a negotiated political solution where both sides first "simultaneously" lay down their weapons (a call=subse

=Iign with those of any of the parties to a regional dispute involving old =thnically or religiously based claims to land. An article this week by Ethan Bronner <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/world/middleeast/netanyahu-and=barak- bond-over-israels-iran-crisis.html?scp=1&sq=Bronner%20Netany=hu%20Barak%20&s

rs the uprising in Syria to be, to some extent, the handiwork of the United States and its European allies. This perception is fundamentally wrong: Assad's is an oppressive, minority-Alawi regime. It came to power via a 1970 coup. In 1982, the current dictator's father, then president Hafez al- Assad

akes in Muslim Brotherhood, Salafi and even al-Qaeda- affiliated factions. Despite President Obama's "reset" policy, Russia continues to support [4] Bashar al-Assad's brutal regime. But in a rare admission of reality, a senior Middle East hand acknowledged that Russia must step back. Mikhail Margelov, chair of th

Subject: February 7 update Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:52:50 +0000 7 February, 2012 Article 1. NYT Unity Deal Brings Risks for Abbas and Israel Ethan Bronner Article 2. The Daily Beast Israel and Iran on the Eve of Destruction Niall Ferguson Article 3. Wall Street Journal (How) Should Israel Bomb Ir

e terrifying scale of Libya's Qaddafi and Syria's Assad nor stifled economic progress with such alacrity.

1 The shimon Pos, Presidential Press Bulletin 26 June, 2011 Article 1. NYT Building Boom in Gaza's Ruins Belies Misery That Remains Ethan Bronner Article 2. Herald Tribune Buying Into Palestinian Statehood Yossi Alpher, Colette Avital, Shlomo Gazit, and Mark Heller Article 3. The Daily Star Wha

other bureaucracies, and thus had no legitimacy. Marcus Aurelius was one thing; Tunisia's Zine el- Abidine Ben Ali, Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and Syria's Bashar al- Assad, quite another. Certainly, the Arab Spring has proved much: that there is no otherness to Arab civilization, that Arabs yearn for universal values ju