Epstein Secrets

s parties in Parliament. Our fears often reflect our own mental hobgoblins. For a generation, we were terrified of secular Arab nationalists, like Gamal Abdel Nasser, who ruled Egypt in the '60s. The fears of the secularists proved overblown, and I think the same is true of anxieties about Islamic parties in Egy

, mind you. I suspect it was partly to spite Tony Blair, partly to maximize the economic power he retain

rophiles in his own party to take Britain into the EMU. I don't think he did this out of high principle, mind you. I suspect it was partly to spite Tony Blair, partly to maximize the economic power he retained as chancellor of the EFTA_R1_02047560 EFTA02695883 3 Exchequer and partly to please his frie

s much as $5 billion from only one company. In 2007, after fifteen years of neoliberal transformations, Mubarak amended the constitution to remove Gamal Abdel Nasser's socialist articles. References to socialism, the leading EFTA_R1_00225762 EFTA01840706 role of the public sector in development, and the allian

d of democracy and rights and freedoms that we enjoy here." It is in the realm of foreign policy that Cameron is most obviously Churchillian. Like Tony Blair, he is drawn to the idea of military intervention where human rights as well as national interest are at stake. It was he, not President Obama, who

bama will take some convincing. But if we don't sort out Syria—not to mention Somalia—who will? Will Americans warm to Cameron the way they did to Blair? Young, bold, and articulate, the two prime ministers have much in common. They also share the handicap that Britain is no longer the economic and

will retain power. A career in the Army or Air Force has been the EFTA_R1_02205163 EFTA02721243 stepping-stone for Egyptian political life since Gamel Abdel Nasser. It was often said that "the best and brightest" could be found in Egypt's young officer corps. One of the reasons, besides anti-dynastic feelings

S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. But it is perhaps the opinion of Palestinian citizens themselves that is most telling. A community leader in the Balata refugee camp in the West

ud Abbas, and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. But it is perhaps the opinion of Palestinian ci

s sales to Israel but also in the joint attack on Egypt known as the 1956 Sinai-Suez War. The French needed Israel to help topple Egypt's President Gamal Abdul Nasser who supported their opponents in Algeria. The side payment their Socialist leaders were willing to provide Israel was a 26-megawatt nuclear researc

d his agency's turf against an attempt by Dennis Blair, then the director of national intelligence, to