Epstein Secrets

the investigation is more tempered in Ramallah, partly because some people there suspect al-Jazeera of wanting to help topple Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. But, of course, Palestinian officials also realize that they can take advantage of the search for Arafat's alleged EFTA00712771 murderer. At the

aos." 48. Vali Nasr A leading thinker on the Middle East, Vali Nasr is the rare breed of academic who finds himself profiled on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. Just as the situation in Iraq began to deteriorate rapidly, Nasr shot to fame with a timely book, The Shia Revival, on the battle being waged with

ed the exhumation of his remains for further testing, which was promptly approved by Arafat's long time friend and successor, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. After examining his body and bone marrow, tests will be able to demonstrate whether the radioactive poison was in his system. If that is the case,

reading it." Mr. Shultz also mentions the memo his economic transition team wrote for President-elect Ronald Reagan in 1980, recently excerpted in The Wall Street Journal ("Advice for a New President," May 26): "If you just took that and put that into effect again, then we'd be in business." I try hard to pull Mr. Sh

lds." NBC (Mitchell) added, that Blinken is "pledging $112 million in emergency aid to rebuild Gaza and meeting with Palestinian authority President Mahmoud Abbas, sidelined by the Trump Administration." The CBS Evening NewsVi (5/25, story 9, 1:45, O'Donnell, 3.84M) reported Blinken is "hoping to solidify the

he Post adds, "For these lawmakers, any attempt to unwind the 2017 GOP tax cuts is still off the table." Bloomberg (5/25, Wasson, Jacobs, 3.57M) and the Wall Street Journal (5/25, Duehren, Subscription Publication, 8.41M) provide similar coverage of the GOP counteroffer. The AP (5/25, Mascaro, Lemire) says "the adminis

d I value all efforts aimed at establishing regional peace and stability." However, Reuters (10/23, Sawafta) also reports that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas "said...the Palestinians reject and condemn Sudan's move to normalise ties with Israel under a U.S.- brokered agreement." Israel Drops Objection To

ner Tony Bobulinski, who came forward on Wednesday to assert that he met with Joseph R. Biden about his son's profitable foreign business ventures." The Wall Street Journal (10/23, Duehren, Areddy, Subscription Publication, 7.57M) reports Bobulinski has alleged that Joe Biden worked with his son to set up an investment

llionaires control the tunnels at the expense of both Egyptian and Palestinian national interests," fumed the Western-backed Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas. Early hopes that Egypt's new president, Muhammad Morsi, might put the Hamas genie back in its bottle have subsided. Under his predecessor, Hosni

d to command by Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood eminence who was elected president of Egypt a few weeks back. My column was prompted by the Wall Street Journal's coverage of Sissi's appointment, which strained to put a positive spin on an unfolding catastrophe. The Journal has been all in on the "Arab Spring