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carriage of Justice Editorial EFTA00662943 March 24, 2014 -- Egypt has been on an alarming downward spiral ever since the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak in 2011. Even so, the court verdict on Monday that condemned 529 Islamists to death for the killing of a single police officer last summer was a un
iral ever since the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak in 2011. Even so, the court verdict on Monday th
id being killed by sniper fire or Assad's crude yet lethal barrel bombs are now tragically commonplace. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the organization charged with bringing in humanitarian aid to the famished population, has been unable to consistently carry out its mission, as
nows what it takes to make his people happy. Unlike in Egypt and Tunisia, Syrians see Assad as part of the solution in their country, and not, like Hosni Mubarak and Zein al-Abidine Ben Ali, as part of the problem. He is young, closer to their age than both presidents had been to young Egyptians and Tunisian
ago, in a long, thrilling interview with the Wall Street Journal, Assad spoke about the stability of his regime, in sharp contrast to the crumbling Mubarak regime. But in the end, the shockwaves of the "Arab Spring" also reached Syria. The opposition is nourished by the hatred the Sunni majority in Syr
and Arab political organizations recently pounced on reports that a new human rights curriculum being prepared for use in Gaza schools operated by UNRWA, the United Nations aid agency for Palestinian refugees, might include historical references to the Holocaust. Their reaction underscores the urgen
; 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
wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbors should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date." A third is UNRWA, the U.N. agency that has perpetuated the Palestinian refugee problem for generations when most other refugees have been successfully repatriated.
Entities connected to both Hosni Mubarak and UNRWA

Barack Obama
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Bashar al-Assad
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Cairo
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George W. Bush
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Lebanon
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United States
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Bill Clinton
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Yemen
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Tehran
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Damascus
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Saddam Hussein
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Jerusalem
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Middle East
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Hillary Clinton
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Fatah
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West Bank
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Bahrain
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Jeffrey Epstein
PERSONthe West Bank
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