Epstein Secrets

fered Sisi $2 billion in arms - just what a country like Egypt, where half the women can't read, needs. The whole meeting struck me as so 1960s, so Nasser meets Khrushchev — two strongmen bucking each other up in the age of strong people and superempowered individuals. Rather than discuss arms sales,

of what might happen if Vinegar and his team get their way. "The Elah Valley will be turned into a great oil- shale production site," an article in Haaretz claimed. "Its vistas will likely be ruined, its soil and groundwater polluted by heavy metals, and its clean air will become a distant memory." Vi

A. Cook is Hasib J. Sabbagh senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square. He blogs at From the Potomac to the Euphrates. Asharq Al-Awsat Gaza tunnel trade: Matter of life and death for Hamas Kifah Zabo

Strip via the tunnels in 2011. The source stressed that Hamas taxes every item that enters the Gaza Strip via the tunnels. For its part, Israel's Haaretz newspaper estimated that control of the tunnels yield around 10 — 15 percent of Hamas's entire revenues. Reports indicate that each tunnel can empl

about that outcome. The Israelis are always opposed to the rising regional force. When that was Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser, they focused on Nasser. When it was al Qaeda and its sympathizers, they focused on al Qaeda. When it was Iran, they focused on Tehran. But simple opposition to a regiona

cial, dubbed the "Decision Maker," and universally believed to be Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak Barak, said in a widely noted interview with Haaretz's Ani Shavit August 11: "Ostensibly the Americans could...say clearly that if by next spring the Iranians still have a nuclear program, they will d