Epstein Secrets

United States Holoc=ust Memorial Museum in Washington, Peter W. Galbraith, a former American a=bassador who witnessed ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, made a c=illing prediction. "The next genocide in the world," he said, "will =ikely be against the Alawites in Syria<http://topics.nytimes.com/top

ce of the wanton Israeli aggression," according to a s=atement from his spokesman on Thursday. Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas prime minister, thanked Mr. Morsi in a televised =peech on Thursday night "for the quick and brave decisions he made," a=ding, 'Today's Egypt is unlike that of yesterday." Coming we

he said, ho=es the message to Israel will be: "You don't want to mess with us in G=za because you'll hurt your relationship with Cairo." President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt has so far rallied to Hamas's side: he n=t only recalled his ambassador from Israel but is sending his prime minste=, Hesham Kandil, here o

, if necessary, using an American-led force to impose an agreement upon the warring parties. And it might have taken years (as it has in the former Yugoslavia) to get the Jews and Arabs to accept their fates, and it still might not have worked." More surprisingly, Judis won't even condemn the post-war Zio

were won not by liberal activists (who were hopelessly divided into a myriad of Pythonesque parties) but by Muhammad Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood. Mr Morsi treated democracy as a winner-takes-all system, packing the state with Brothers, granting himself almost unlimited powers and creating an upper hou

were it not for the intervention of the International Monetary Fund (IMF= and the World Bank. Everybody knows how countries like Chile in 1975 and Yugoslavia in 1989 and Nicaragu= in 1990 went bankrupt, or, to put it in the language of economists, exper=enced huge inflation and the collapse of the nationa

el and Egypt must take convincing action now to uphold the treaty.&n=sp; Last November, when hostilities erupted in Gaza, Egyptian President =ohamed Morsi mediated a swift resolution, even providing a guarantee for t=e cease-fire with Gaza's ruling Mamas. Morsi thus implicitly 11 EFTA_R1_001 07024 E

engage from Europe three times since the end of the Cold War, and each time the disengagement failed. The Clinton administration tried to outsource Yugoslavia to the Europeans in the 1990s and was ultimately pulled into the Balkans. George W. Bush tried to conduct foreign policy around and over the heads

ears about the Brotherhood's secret designs, and the old guard in the military, the bureaucracy and the judiciary was relentless in undermining Mr. Morsi. Ultimately, the Morsi government never got the chance to succeed—or fail. But overthrowing Mr. Morsi wasn't enough for the old guard: In March, a