Epstein Secrets

served in the Pentagon under Bill Clinton, is responsible for U.S. policy toward some of the toughest hot spots, including China, North Korea, and Myanmar, where he has overseen a historic and surprising warming of ties. One of the authors of the U.S. "pivot" toward Asia, Campbell is likely to see his

taken on an even more controversial subject with his new tome The Crisis of Zionism, which strongly EFTA00712792 criticizes Israeli policy toward the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and accuses the American Jewish establishment of enabling Israel's moral decline. In turn, he has earned a reputation as "U.S. J

hange for aid? All China asks for is friendship and support against rivals -- whether nationalists in Japan or "splittists" in Taiwan and Tibet. If Myanmar or Mongolia suddenly suffered a run on their currencies, Beijing wouldn't send a financial SWAT team with spreadsheets and conditions -- just a che

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

ath For Opposing Junta. The New York Times (5/25, Beech, 20.6M) reports "more than 30 poets have been imprisoned since the military seized power in Myanmar, a country where politics and poetry are intimately connected." The Times says that although at least four of the detained poets have been killed,

Unless we preserve at least the potential of a two-state solution, the one-state reality that would emerge in its place won't just blow up Israel, the West Bank and Gaza; it could very well blow up the Democratic Party and every Jewish organization and synagogue in America." It is "vital," Friedman writes, t

e three of China's neighbours. Mr Obama has important business at the East Asia Summit in Cambodia and in gently helping the tide of democracy in Myanmar — both notable stopovers before Thanksgiving. As indeed is his visit to a politically shaky Thailand. But the larger game will always be about a ri

its militant ways. But instead of suffering from Israel's partial blockade, Hamas has exploited it. By shutting down Gaza's exports to Israel and the West Bank, the blockade has destroyed Gaza's independent business class, which might have been a source of opposition to Hamas. Instead, Hamas has created a