Epstein Secrets

to help protect its interests. They were constant, if not always agreeable, companions. Egypt's Mubarak, Jordan's King Hussein, Tunisia's Ben Ali, Yemen's Ali Saleh, Morocco's King Hassan II, Saudi Arabia's kings Fand and Abdullah. The PLO's Yasir Arafat rounded out the group photo. America's arran

Michael Eastman Article 6. NYT NATO After Libya Editorial Article 7. Newsweek The Next Hillary; Handicapping the race for secretary of state Leslie H. Gelb ArItcic I. EFTA00660282 The Washington Post In Gaza, Hamas rule has not turned out as many expected Karin Brul 1 iard April 19 - GAZA CITY —

as Rwanda, but in a strategically more important place. Already it is late, perhaps too late, to prevent Syria from becoming the new Afghanistan or Yemen, home to rabidly anti- Western jihadis. A critical firebreak, the use of chemical weapons on a large scale, has been breached. EFTA_R1_00441459 EF

rje Rod-Larsen Sent: Mon 8/26/2013 4:45:44 PM Subject: August 26 update 26 August, 2013 Article 1. The Daily Beast Obama's New Syria Options Leslie H. Gelb Article 2. The Wall Street Journal Syria's Gas Attack on Civilization Andrew Roberts Article 3. The Washington Post Syria will require more th

s liberals need to organise fast in response and to prepare for elections. As for the west, it cannot afford to let the dramas in Libya, Syria and Yemen lead to the neglect of Egypt. For the fate of the Arab Spring still hangs most of all on what happens in the most populous and culturally powerful

11 Wall Street Journal The Arab Spring and The Palestine Distraction Josef Joffe The Daily Beast The Israel-Palestine Vote Igniting the Mideast Leslie H. Gelb The National Interest Palestinians Dupe West Benny Morris Article 2. Article 3. Article 4. The Financial Times Egypt's liberals are losing the

that will serve the Syrian's own savage regime. The same holds true for Ali Abdullah Saleh, holding out against his people and against the odds in Yemen, whose lawless territory harbors some of the most dangerous members of al Qaeda. The fundamentally important American alliance with Saudi Arabia,

what to do. Maybe the simplest and in many ways the most disturbing explanation for all the flailing is offered by veteran journalist and diplomat Leslie H. Gelb: "There is one man in this administration who debates himself." President Obama. These patterns of behavior and their consequences have been on ho

edman ance 2. | Le Monde diplomatique Is This the End of the Assad Dynasty? Patrick Seale Article 3. NYT _ Books Mohamed ElBaradei, the Inspector Leslie H. Gelb Article 4.) Vanity Fair Hillary Clinton - Woman of the World Jonathan Alter Article 1. NYT End of Mideast Wholesale Thomas L. Friedman May 7,

re sinking into the sand.” Within days, demonstrators filled Cairo’s Tahrir Square, a vibrant plea for greater freedom that swiftly spread to Jordan, Yemen, Bahrain, Oman, Libya, and eventually even Syria. But if Madam Secretary could be ahead of the curve, she was also sometimes behind it, caught in a d