Epstein Secrets

Kori Schake April 11, 2014 -- Secretary of State John Kerry's push for Middle East peace has come to this sorry impasse: The Israelis demanding the United States release a traitor before they are willing to proceed with previously agreed releases of Palestinians, and the Palestinians playing for internationa

urled in Washington. According to John McCain: "I travel all around the world and I hear unanimously that the United States is withdrawing and that the United States' influence is on the wane and that bad things are going to happen, and they are happening." The charge of retreat is a potent one. It's also a compl

rest Turkey: Return of the Generals Aliza Marcus, Halil Karaveli Article 6. NYT Go Ahead, Vladimir, Make My Day Thomas L. Friedman Article 7. Al Ahram The Brotherhood and terrorism Ammar Ali Hassan The New Yorker Where Is the Kerry Plan for Peace? Bernard Avishai April 11, 2014 -- On Tuesday,

y predictions, the government of Mohammed Morsi did not abrogate the Egyptian peace treaty with Israel, nor did it seek to interrupt relations with the United States, although it did move to distance itself to some extent from Washington. In some areas, notably in calls for the international community to offer s

e out about his colleague's killing had been driving with the colleague, Tamer Abdel Raouf, the head of the local office of the official newspaper, Al Ahram, in the delta province of Beheira. When their car was at a checkpoint, soldiers enforcing the 7 p.m. curfew shot and killed Mr. Abdel Raouf. The

hatever government emerges will continue to support American policy, including maintaining ties with Israel and distance from Iran. At the same time, the United States' standing in public opinion in Egypt and around the region continues to suffer because of decades of support for undemocratic governments like the mil

ssage: that the SCAF is not an elected body and must deliver the authority and turn over power," said Emad Gad, an analyst at the government-financed Al Ahram research institute and now a leader of the Social Democratic Party. Mr. Gad contended that over the long term such pressure could only benefit the Am