Epstein Secrets

as long characterized the region: the Sunni-Shiite cleavage. The sectarian divide underlies the latent struggle for regional control between Saudi Arabia and Iran. The radicalization of Syria's opposition, however, has complicated the situation even further, nesting one problem within another — much

ewish state. When Truman assumed office in April 1945 after Franklin Roosevelt's death, he had little knowledge of Palestine and even less of what Roosevelt's policies in the region had been. What immediately concerned him was what to do about the Jewish refugees, the survivors of the Nazi's final solut

s allowed over 500,000 Jews to settle in Palestinian areas of Jerusalem and in the West Bank. The "underdogs," as Truman once put it in a letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, are now acting like the "top dogs." Truman and the State Department were also worried that the attempt to create a Jewish state in an Arab-dominat

if not always agreeable, companions. Egypt's Mubarak, Jordan's King Hussein, Tunisia's Ben Ali, Yemen's Ali Saleh, Morocco's King Hassan II, Saudi Arabia's kings Fand and Abdullah. The PLO's Yasir Arafat rounded out the group photo. America's arrangements with the acquiescents (and their sons, relati

greater role in the debate. In 1934, Franklin D. Roosevelt allegedly quipped about the Nicaraguan strongman

Egypt has designated Hamas a terrorist group and is keeping Gaza isolated. Syria, embroiled in a civil war with outside backing, has accused Saudi Arabia and Qatar of seeking to undermine the country. Saudi Arabia and Qatar are supporting different factions of the Syrian opposition. The Arab Gulf sta

settled the question of whether one man can alter history. Of course he can. Hitler did. Stalin did. Churchill put steel in Britain's backbone, and Roosevelt saved the snarling American free-enterprise system by house-breaking it. Gavrilo Princip had his moment too. On a day EFTA00662937 almost 100 yea

n taking place in the United States has reached sufficient scale w=ere it is beginning to alter international dynamics. The U.S. has overtaken Sau=i Arabia and Russia to become the world's main oil-producing nation. =n August, U.S. monthly oil production was at its highest level since 1986. Meanwhile,=t

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tify Iran uclear Deal,” Wail Street Journal, November 20, 2016. ristina Peterson, “House Passes 9/11 Bill That Would Let Victims’ Families Sue Saudi Arabia,” Wall Street Journal, September 9, 2016. elissa Eddy and Alison Smale, “Berlin Crash ls Suspected to Bea Terror Attack, Police Say,” New York Times