Epstein Secrets

ades of conflict." However, Blinken "has a more modest goal: making sure the cease-fire holds and humanitarian aid can be delivered to the battered Gaza Strip." Reuters (5/25) reports Blinken "said the [US) would provide an additional $75 million in...aid to the Palestinians...$5.5 million in immediate dis

they would have more time" to resolve. "The Pentagon still has not determined how it will combat terrorist threats like Al Qaeda. ... Nor have top Defense Department officials secured agreement from allies about repositioning American troops in other nearby countries. And administration officials are still grappl

The United States is expected to block the move in the Security Council -- and, of course, Israel will not alter its policies in the West Bank and Gaza Strip because of a U.N. resolution. Now, with the Palestinian dream of statehood stymied at every turn, a new generation of activists are adopting fresh

rategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, PA. The views expressed here do not necessarily represent those of the US Army, Defense Department, or the U.S. Government. By June 2011, the Arab revolutions had evolved into a series of disconnected but increasingly violent civil wars—particula

while, IDF EFTA_R1_02205144 EFTA02721224 units were conducting an intensive campaign of daily incursions and raids throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In the aftermath of Israel's historic Gaza disengagement, neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians appeared to be serious about forging a constr

n 2007, no U.S. funds were allocated to the mission. The USSC also answered to the more risk- averse and top-down State Department, rather than the Defense Department. Furthermore, falling under the State Department's control meant that the USSC was constrained by not one, but two, local "chief of mission" autho