Epstein Secrets

s ago, a congressional test of wills over Middle East policy between an American president and an Israeli prime EFTA00707074 minister was dubbed "Reagan or Begin." This week, the showdown on Iran negotiations might be described as "Barack or Bibi." Despite Obama administration opposition, Israeli Pr

ent crisis is already one of the biggest U.S.-Israel blowups, ever -- and it could get worse before it gets better. Not since Menachem Begin trashed Ronald Reagan's 1982 peace plan has Israel so publicly criticized a major U.S. diplomatic initiative. In a rousing speech in Jerusalem on Nov. 10, Netanyahu even c

r Menachem Begin tried to block the sale despite President Reagan's advocacy. Reagan won the test, and the AWAC sa

denies Palestinians access to water from the Jordan River and makes it almost impossible for them to dig new wells, even as it uses, according to a World Bank estimate, more than 80% of the West Bank's groundwater). Palestinians will still be held up at Israeli army checkpoints and harassed or arrested by

ecutive; secretary of labor (1969-70); director of the Office of Management and Budget (1970-72); secretary of the Treasury (1972-74); chairman of Ronald Reagan's economic transition team; and the secretary of state (1982-89) who wound down the Cold War. He's also been an active adviser to GOP leaders includi

nomy can be turned around because I watched Ronald Reagan do it." "It took long-term thinking," Mr. Shultz emphasizes. "I'll give you an example. [Reagan] knew and we all advised him you can't have a decent economy with the kind of inflation we've got. . . . The political people would come in and say

ing. Infrastructure investment has plummeted over the past 15 years, especially in power generation and transportation, according to a January 2010 World Bank working paper. "Associated with this decline, capital expenditures in Egypt have been reduced in the last decade, raising concerns that the country

ay have reached an unsustainably low level of infrastructure investment," the report said. Egypt already occupied a less-than-distinguished spot in the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business rankings, but in the past year it slipped still lower, from No. 108 to No. 110. Out of 183 economies, Egypt ranks 154th for

cal institutions. The return to a more interdisciplinary approach to development was marked as well by the tenure of James Wolfenson as President of the World Bank from 1995 to 2005.4 Wolfenson early on gave a speech on the “cancer of corruption” and signaled to the institution that, henceforth, political issues

alance between personal responsibility and private markets on the one hand and public responsibility and social welfare on the other — at least since Ronald Reagan and perhaps since F.D.R. The battle ahead “is the big one, and goes to the very major questions about the role of government,” said G. William Hoagl

cial welfare on the other — at least since Ronald Reagan and perhaps since F.D.R. The battle ahead “is th