Epstein Secrets

have camped out in Israeli cities, too. But there is a real difference: Protests that were about fundamental issues of life, death, and freedom in Cairo, Aleppo, Tunis, and Kiev were, in Israel, about real-estate prices and the high cost of cottage cheese. Indeed, just as Israel now has a physical b

ny overall political reconciliation. The lack of normalized relations will continue to perpetuate the negative aspect of relations between Iran and the Gulf States because the U.S. will be unable to leverage substantial ties with Iran into a win-win regional security strategy. Although the strategic rivalry be

ple. Mubarak% Interior Minister Tried for Deaths During Demonstrations Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's interior minister is on trial in Cairo charged with ordering the deaths of anti-government demonstrators during the protests that ultimately brought down the regime. Habib Al-Adly and si

ollowing the end of Ali Abdullah Saleh's 32-year reign. Saleh and the opposition parties that brought about his ouster agreed to a deal brokered by the Gulf States in which Saleh will resign within 30 days and elections will be held within 60 days. Saleh's party, the General People's Congress, and the opposit

on to give up on the Arab Spring Juan Cole 28 June -- Three and a half years ago, the world was riveted by massive crowds of youths mobilizing in Cairo's Tahrir Square to demand an end to Egypt's dreary police state. We watched transfixed as a movement first ignited in Tunisia spread from one part

under the banner of ISIS, which shook the region and the world by routing Iraq's army and occupying much of the country. Meanwhile, the Saudis and the Gulf States, where there is a great deal of sympathy for ISIS, are engaged in a complicated dance that certainly involves some degree of tacit backing for the

e turned (and • they responded to the best of their ability) in rather tense times, when a handful of our people were besieged in the embassy in Cairo, with an angry mob at the door. Secretary of State Kerry, and • President Obama — went to great lengths — and paid a considerable political (an

What do I mean? The events in • recent years have created a strong common interest for Israel and the moderate Arab countries — Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, Jordan, Egypt and perhaps even Turkey (which is not Arab). The focal interest is the struggle against radical Islamic terrorism and against Iran