Epstein Secrets

art condition. His two sons have been detained and are imprisoned. The arrests staved-off plans for a massive demonstration that was to be held in Cairo on Friday, the chief demand being the prosecution of the three Mubaraks. NEW FROM THE MEDIA LINE VIDEO: ISRAEL'S OPTIONS IN THE FACE OF ESCALATING

indication being the cancellation of a scheduled meeting in Berlin. Despite the latest boost, mixed signals have come from Palestinian leadership. Fayyad continues to say the Palestinians "don't need another declaration of statehood" and has cited the importance of Israeli recognition of statehood. M

ils Taken to the Grave Feeding the (Rich) World Palestinian State to be Ready by Summer Israel Deploys Rocket Shield EFTA00658526 solution. Fayyad is reportedly seeking to raise $5 billion over More Video three years in anticipation of launching a state. Israeli Foreign Minister Step Closer t

as still not a Palestinian state. He was explicit about what Israel needed to do. In an Oval Office meeting with Bibi in May 2009, and in a speech in Cairo the next month, he called for a total halt to settlement construction on the West Bank. US opposition to settlements wasn't new. For years, Washingto

s and cities of the West Bank. 413 HOUSE _OVERSIGHT_028261 / BARAK / 128 I issued a standing directive in the kirya that we should agree to anything Fayyad asked for, as long as there no security reason to say no. We ended up arranging a direct source of fuel supply to Jenin, on the northern edge of the

f Fayyad succeeded in what he was trying to accomplish, it would be a benefit not just for the Palestinians, but for Israel too. Bibi was agnostic on Fayyad's efforts. Yet he recognized they did no harm. And in a way, my support for them was politically convenient. To the extent the international communit

anch of the Muslim Brotherhood, which has done little to restrain the fire. In July, former Hamas leader Khaled Meshal met Egypt's new President in Cairo. "We have entered a new era in Palestine's relationship with Egypt," Meshal said after the meeting. "We were happy with what we heard from Presiden

day prayers. He has a politician's touch, but a tin ear: when Osama bin Laden was killed, he lamented the fall of "a Muslim and an Arabic warrior." Fayyad got a Ph.D. from the University of EFTA00700298 Texas and worked at the International Monetary Fund, a pedigree that keeps money flowing from Eur

and the United States ($1 billion in debt relief negotiations). Saudi Arabia, where President Morsi made his first trip abroad, had a delegation in Cairo the week of September 10th discussing a $1.5 billion aid package. Investments and the investment climate were on the agenda as well that week with a

f the West Bank, with demonstrations against the Palestinian Authority in various cities in protest over general economic hardship and rising taxes. Fayyad, a World Bank economist, is held in high esteem in Western capitals, but his popularity has recently been waning on the Palestinian street, due most

rael has continued to build in the West Bank. Television footage of Abbas and Hamas politburo head Khaled Meshal clasping each other's shoulders in Cairo in May was accordingly greeted with hope, but also much wariness, in Ramallah. "They are like two prisoners fighting over scraps of bread, instead

President Mahmoud Abbas's insistence that it should be headed by his current prime minister, Salam Fayyad, infuriated Hamas. The Islamists loathe Fayyad, who has overseen a four-year crackdown on their membership in the West Bank in cooperation with Israeli forces, as much as he is feted by Western

and the United States ($1 billion in debt relief negotiations). Saudi Arabia, where President Morsi made his first trip abroad, had a delegation in Cairo the week of September 10th discussing a $1.5 billion aid package. Investments and the investment climate were on the agenda as well that week with a

the West Bank, with demonstrations against the Palestinian Authority in various cities in protest over general economic hardship and rising taxes. Fayyad, a World Bank economist, is held in high esteem in Western capitals, but his popularity has recently been waning on the Palestinian street, due most

as still not a Palestinian state. He was explicit about what Israel needed to do. In an Oval Office meeting with Bibi in May 2009, and in a speech in Cairo the next month, he called for a total halt to settlement construction on the West Bank. US opposition to settlements wasn’t new. For years, Washingto

and cities of the West Bank. 413 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011884 / BARAK / 128 I issued a standing directive in the kirya that we should agree to anything Fayyad asked for, as long as there no security reason to say no. We ended up arranging a direct source of fuel supply to Jenin, on the northern edge of the

WHEN THESE LEADERS fell, the Western media joyously proclaimed the end of an era. When the demonstrations began in late January in Tahrir Square in Cairo, exhilaration grew by the hour not only among the participants but also among the journalists who had hastened to Egypt from all parts of the globe

ntal view of the world. While Netanyahu and the gerontocrats of the American Jewish establishment yearn for a return to the days of George W. Bush, Fayyad has developed a strategy for the post-American age. He knows that if Netanyahu continues to EFTA00586644 13 entrench the occupation and Palestin

apolis Joint Understanding (27 November 2007) 539 Olmert-Abbas Peace Talks (December 2008) 541 US President Barack Obama’s Speech on a New Beginning (Cairo Speech) (4 June 2009) 542 Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Speech at Bar Ilan University (14 June 2009) 553 Chair’s Summary of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committ

ama’s Cairo Speech. 14 June 2009 Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Speech at Bar Ilan University. 25 August 2009 Ending Occupation, Establishing the State: Fayyad Plan. 25 September 2009 Report of the United Nations fact finding mission on the Gaza conflict: the Goldstone report. 31 May 2010 Gaza Flotilla Inc

he Union address that stressed fixing America's broken house, not chasing around the world trying to fix everyone else's. The future of America isn't Cairo or Damascus; it's Chicago and Detroit. Aaron David Miller is a distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Artic

ostering the end of violent resistance in the West Bank in the years after the bloody Second Intifada, coupled with Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad's widely-respected institution- building initiative, could get a crucial private sector assist through Rawabi's eventual success. And Rawabi gets at