Epstein Secrets

ch conflicts. The challenge is creating a dialogue among people who profoundly mistrust each other — and averting a pell-mell civil war. President Obama is embracing the logic of a political settlement for Afghanistan with his speech Wednesday night. With Osama bin Laden dead, Obama can claim that A

across the countries of the Middle East and North Africa. One response that is often heard is a note of cautious optimism, captured in US President Barack Obama recent speech at the State Department when he referred to the "promise of the future." But sometimes we also hear the populist smears that have be

ach other — and averting a pell-mell civil war. President Obama is embracing the logic of a political settlement

te of cautious optimism, captured in US President Barack Obama recent speech at the State Department when

the popular sentiment in favor of the Palestinian cause, the new Egyptian leadership initiated two important policy shifts. First, it re-opened the Rafah border, which has allowed most residents of Gaza to escape the suffocating siege imposed by Israel. Second, Egypt has played an active role in faci

been evolving, but in what direction has been less clear. Analysts have therefore been dutifully reading between the lines of what the risk-averse Obama administration has been doing and saying to try to tease out the new American strategic vision for the region. Both the administration and the cou

came even more so. Yet these moves only hinted at where American strategy might be headed, and raised more questions than they answered. President Barack Obama, in his own words, has begun to EFTA_R1_02206846 EFTA02722150 explain what his administration sees as new American strategic policy goals and po

hat were within the limits of the NPT. Not until President Obama made it plain, beginning in 2009, that the US wa

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down not only on the Brotherhood, but Hamas as well. In addition to destroying tunnels, Egypt has also severely limited Gazans' ability to exit at Rafah, Gaza's main access to the outside world. Israel responded by easing restrictions on people and goods moving through the two crossings it controls

been evolving, but in what direction has been less clear. Analysts have therefore been dutifully reading between the lines of what the risk-averse Obama administration has been doing and saying to try to tease out the new American strategic vision for the region. Both the administration and the cou

came even more so. Yet these moves only hinted at where American strategy might be headed, and raised more questions than they answered. President Barack Obama, in his own words, has begun to explain what his administration sees as new American strategic policy goals and postures. And they will not please

sed more questions than they answered. President Barack Obama, in his own words, has begun to explain wha

down not only on the Brotherhood, but Hamas as well. In addition to destroying tunnels, Egypt has also severely limited Gazans' ability to exit at Rafah, Gaza's main access to the outside world. Israel responded by easing restrictions on people and goods moving through the two crossings it controls,

orsi and his colleagues have largely gotten a pass. To be sure, EFTA00711984 Dennis Ross, the former Middle East hand for Bush (41), Clinton, and Obama, published a critical op-ed in the Washington Post and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy's Eric Trager did the same in the Wall Street

special committee enjoys legitimacy in the underground smuggling network, and following the recent killing of 16 Egyptian soldiers and officers in Rafah, for example, the committee ordered all tunnel owners to shut down their smuggling operations for a period of three days. This decision had an imm

sraeli occupation and is thus punishing us," Mona Abdo, political activist who ran for parliament under Mubarak, told Ahram Online from her home in Rafah. "I am more Egyptian than other Egyptians living in Cairo or elsewhere, as I reside on the turbulent borders," she said. Political sociologists st

tia= relations entirely now, it is clear that this remains the Muslim Brotherh=od's ultimate ambition. This is where Washington comes in. While the Obama administration cannot ch=nge the long-held aims of an insular, extreme movement like the Muslim Bro=herhood, it must work to prevent the Brotherhood

Mr. Thrall suggested, would be a three-=arty deal in which Hamas vows to contain Gaza's more extreme elements in=exchange for improved trade through Rafah, the border crossing controlled =y Egypt, as well as Kerem Shalom, the commercial crossing managed by Israe=. "The new X-factor is that Egypt is no

such conflicts. The challenge is creating a dialogue among people who profoundly mistrust each other - and averting a pell-mell civil war. President Obama is embracing the logic of a political settlement for Afghanistan with his speech Wednesday night. With Osama bin Laden dead, Obama can claim that Ame

each other - and averting a pell-mell civil war. President Obama is embracing the logic of a political settlement

g across the countries of the Middle East and North Africa. One response that is often heard is a note of cautious optimism, captured in US President Barack Obama recent speech at the State Department when he referred to the "promise of the future." But sometimes we also hear the populist smears that have been

f the popular sentiment in favor of the Palestinian cause, the new Egyptian leadership initiated two important policy shifts. First, it re-opened the Rafah border, which has allowed most residents of Gaza to escape the suffocating siege imposed by Israel. Second, Egypt has played an active role in facili