Epstein Secrets

Contracts Threatens Israeli Supply A deal to provide Israel with 40% of its gas needs that was a controversial move for former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is now threatened with major revisions by Egypt's successor government. The state-run MENA news agency reported on Wednesday that the prime minist

e arrests staved-off plans for a massive demonstration that was to be held in Cairo on Friday, the chief demand being the prosecution of the three Mubaraks. NEW FROM THE MEDIA LINE VIDEO: ISRAEL'S OPTIONS IN THE FACE OF ESCALATING TENSION WITH GAZA http://media.themedialine.org/media/110324 zaki shal

indication being the cancellation of a scheduled meeting in Berlin. Despite the latest boost, mixed signals have come from Palestinian leadership. Fayyad continues to say the Palestinians "don't need another declaration of statehood" and has cited the importance of Israeli recognition of statehood. M

ils Taken to the Grave Feeding the (Rich) World Palestinian State to be Ready by Summer Israel Deploys Rocket Shield EFTA00658526 solution. Fayyad is reportedly seeking to raise $5 billion over More Video three years in anticipation of launching a state. Israeli Foreign Minister Step Closer t

by such scenes were the limits of the day's slogan: "The people want the end of the division!" While Egyptians and Tunisians had by then jettisoned Hosni Mubarak's National Democratic Party and Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali's Rally for Constitutional Democracy, the March 15 movement was in effect asking Palestini

impossible choice, recapitulated starkly by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after May 2: "It's either Hamas, or peace with Israel." With Mubarak's Egypt shoring up a still-biting Gaza blockade, meanwhile, and taking Fatah's side as the final arbitrator of reconciliation with Hamas, Abbas cou

President Mahmoud Abbas's insistence that it should be headed by his current prime minister, Salam Fayyad, infuriated Hamas. The Islamists loathe Fayyad, who has overseen a four-year crackdown on their membership in the West Bank in cooperation with Israeli forces, as much as he is feted by Western

; for the first time in a long time, Arabs are. In Tahrir Square, Egypt's young made a revolution. President Obama bowed to reality and helped show Hosni Mubarak the door; Benjamin Netanyahu stood athwart history, impotently yelling stop. Now Egypt's leaders are doing its people's will, bringing Hamas and Fa

g about a revolution. Tocqueville observed that a dictatorial regime faces the greatest danger when it is trying to reform itself. WHY, THEN, WERE Mubarak and Ali ousted so easily while other dictators are putting up a more determined resistance? Largely EFTA00586653 22 because they had stayed in p

ntal view of the world. While Netanyahu and the gerontocrats of the American Jewish establishment yearn for a return to the days of George W. Bush, Fayyad has developed a strategy for the post-American age. He knows that if Netanyahu continues to EFTA00586644 13 entrench the occupation and Palestin

alysts tell me that if Assad goes down, the Kremlin will earn a reputation of supporting allies-something the United States lacks after letting the Mubarak regime go down quickly. The real question is whether Russia will keep the Soviet-era naval base in Tartus on Syria's Mediterranean coast. While th

residential and legislative elections. It was unclear what role the current prime minister, Salam Fayyad, would play in the interim government. Mr. Fayyad is admired abroad for his financial transparency, and is the reason that some countries provide aid to the Palestinian Authority — more than $1 bil

Summit of Peacemakers Final Statement (13 March 1996) 454 Camp David Statement (25 July 2000) 456 Remarks by US President Bill Clinton and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt in Delivery of Joint Statements at the Conclusion of the Middle East Peace Summit (17 October 2000) 458 Clinton Parameters (23 December 200

, establishing the Multilateral Force and Observers (MFO). 7 August 1981 Fahd Plan. 6 October 1981 Assassination of President Sadat. Vice President Mubarak succeeds him. 14 December 1981 The Israel Knesset passes a law annexing the Golan Heights. 17 December 1981 UN Security Council Resolution 497 (Gol

ama’s Cairo Speech. 14 June 2009 Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Speech at Bar Ilan University. 25 August 2009 Ending Occupation, Establishing the State: Fayyad Plan. 25 September 2009 Report of the United Nations fact finding mission on the Gaza conflict: the Goldstone report. 31 May 2010 Gaza Flotilla Inc