Epstein Secrets

sympathizers, advocates of liberalism and the Egyptian military would not be ameliorated by a settlement freeze. The overthrow of former President Hosni Mubarak was not prompted by Obama's failure to confront settlements. Nor was the subsequent coup launched against the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Mursi tr

freeze. The overthrow of former President Hosni Mubarak was not prompted by Obama's failure to confront

niversity of the Negev is a visiting professor at the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University. Yousef Abu- Mayla is a water expert at Al Azhar University in Gaza. Anicic 7. Spiegel old CW ar in the Pacific: China Escalates Tensions with Neighbors Hans Hoyng, Wieland Wagner and Bernhard Zand 12/02

ote counts from across the country indicated that the Islamist leader was ahead of rival Ahmed Shafiq, who was the last prime minister appointed by Hosni Mubarak and was widely considered the generals' preferred candidate. Preliminary results published in the state-run Ahram Online news site showed that, wit

amed Morsi, a protégé of the Brotherhood's strongman Khayrat Elshater. If anything, this "choice" is the incarnation of the doctrine that served Mr Mubarak for three decades, "either me — an authoritarian regime backed by the military, or the Islamists". Having alienated their partners and lost substan

the radical with support from Iran and Syria, but things have shifted in the past year and now he's the moderate as he looks for a new place," said Al Azhar University political analyst Mkhaimar Abusad in Gaza City. "That's the political price he must pay. He can't continue with the same old rhetoric if he wants t

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

hey have been repeated dozens of times without finding their way to implementation," said Mkhaimar Abusada, a political science professor at Gaza's Al Azhar University. This latest signed document may face the same fate. The rival movements have to negotiate the terms of complex power sharing and the restructurin