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facilities to the Soviet fleet from Port Said to Salloum and from al-Arish to Gaza." With Nasser's death in September 1970, and the inauguration of Anwar Sadat as Egyptian President, the Soviet-Egyptian relationship quickly deteriorated. The KGB then resorted to active measures to try to undermine Sadat's

for it, Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian civil war— particularly the White House's inept and improvisational response to it—has accidentally transformed Putin into a major power- broker for the post-Arab Spring Middle East. (This is no small feat considering that Sunni Muslim antipathy toward Russia is at

ing in Cairo as a direct result of EFTA00706389 its government's support for the still-popular military regime: "The positive stance of President Vladimir Putin towards the June revolution was behind the rise in his popularity." Portraits of Putin today hang alongside those of Sisi in Cairo. The Russian-Eg

litary regime: "The positive stance of President Vladimir Putin towards the June revolution was behind the

willing and able to lead, they wouldn't need United States involvement. Perhaps Kerry will yet channel Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's inner Anwar Sadat and find Benjamin Netanyahu's inner Menachem Begin. But right now that has about the same odds as Warren Buffet's March Madness bracket bet. The sm

Nonsense Michael Cohen Article 5. The National Interest 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

ar East and Europe, the Obama administration is pushing ambitious trade initiatives. On Russia, the US has been leading the way in trying to punish Putin for his annexation of Crimea. Drones continue to fly in Yemen and elsewhere. And all of these big examples leave out the many small ways in which t

the editor of the Turkey Analyst NYT Go Ahead, Vladimir, Make My Day Thomas L. Friedman April 12, 2014 -- SO the latest news is that President Vladimir Putin of Russia has threatened to turn off gas supplies to Ukraine if Kiev doesn't pay its overdue bill, and, by the way, Ukraine's pipelines are the tra

ce process is that whoever makes the Israeli silent majority feel morally insecure about occupation but strategically secure in Israel wins. After Anwar Sadat flew to Jerusalem, Israelis knew there was no way morally that they could hold onto the Sinai and strategically they did not feel the need to any l

of this, McFaul issued a strong statement against NTV — the channel controlled by Gazprom, a state-owned company with close ties to President-elect Vladimir Putin — and famous for its aggressive "exposés" about the Russian opposition and the supposed U.S. subversive activities aimed at destabilizing Russia.

security conference in Seoul. During a conversation that was caught on a hot mic, Medvedev promised to deliver Obama's kind words and intentions to Putin, the man who effectively pulls the strings at Gazprom and its media subsidiaries. But in reality, many of McFaul's problems in Moscow are rooted i

es Kremlin Sees Obama as Weak EFTA00686705 I Vladimir Ryzhkov I Anicic I. NYT A Middle East Twofer

197.E war is that it opened the door to peace. The Ar- abs humiliated by earlier wars with Israel, now could claim a measure of dignity because of Anwar Sadat's attack across the canal. The Israelis learned that their Arab adversaries wouldn't run from battle, as they had in the 1967 war. That gave them

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oss the country. The last time EFTA_R1_00440974 EFTA01964298 that happened, when Hosni Mubarak took over as president after the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981, the state of emergency remained in force for 30 years. The government has pleaded that it used "the utmost degree of self-restraint" this

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last year, U.S. allies in the Middle East and Europe have marveled as Obama doggedly pursued a patently futile attempt to engage Russian strongman Vladi-mir Putin in another round of nuclear arms reduction talks even while tolerating toxic EFTA_R1_00440984 EFTA01964308 Russian intervention in Syria and rej

erence to the canons of his culture. This was still a time when large numbers of Arabs took the man seriously. (Not so, it should be noted, Egypt's Anwar Sadat, who dubbed him "the crazy boy" and dismissed his hallucinatory Green Book of political tenets as a "toaster manual" purporting to speak to the pro

more ardent a protagonist of the revolution than Vladimir Ilich Lenin, who had devoted his whole life to t