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e Rod-Larsen Sent: Tue 8/14/2012 4:49:35 PM Subject: August 10 update 10 August, 2012 Article 1. The Washington Post Egypt's scapegoat for the Sinai attack David Ignatius Article 2. TIME As the Sinai Goes, So Too the Golan Heights? Tony Karon Article 3. Foreign Policy Jim Baker: Realists h

sure, of these wars that we get into that sometimes do not represent a direct national security threat to the United States." Baker argued that the George H.W. Bush-led 1990-1991 Gulf War, which was prosecuted by an international coalition Baker himself played a key role in creating, was a more successful model

uld withhold financial aid from Egypt if it violates the Camp David peace treaty with Israel (because Cairo is sending more military assets to the Sinai to combat terrorists attacking both Israel and Egypt). While world attention in our region focuses on Syria, transformations across North Africa, t

ow to bridge the gap between Israel and the United States, and give the reassurance Israel EFTA00712897 needs. Dennis Ross, adviser to Presidents George H.W. Bush, Clinton, and Obama on the Middle East, presented his view in the Times. "First, the United States must put an endgame proposal on the table that

uld withhold financial aid from Egypt if it violates the Camp David peace treaty with Israel (because Cairo is sending more military assets to the Sinai to combat terrorists attacking both Israel and Egypt). While world attention in our region focuses on Syria, EFTA_R1_02211666 EFTA02724660 trans

posals about how to bridge the gap between Israel and the United States, and give the reassurance Israel needs. Dennis Ross, adviser to Presidents George H.W. Bush, Clinton, and Obama on the Middle East, presented his view in the Times. "First, the United States must put an endgame proposal on the table that

ead and the military looking complacent. Morsy pounced on the opportunity, ordering both a shakeup of the armed forces and an all-out offensive in Sinai, pounding supposed militant strongholds with missiles and helicopter gunships -- the first use of such hardware since the 1973 war with Israel. Bu

as high on the trustworthy scale. To be fair, it's not as if politicians haven't earned the reputation -- from Richard Nixon ("I'm not a crook") to George H.W. Bush EFTA_R1_00298272 EFTA01883853 ("Read my lips") to Bill Clinton ("I did not have sexual relations with that woman") to Anthony Weiner ("That's no

t take Gaza. Let them deal with it. Or sink trying. The Saudis are on the brink, Egyptians are on the brink, all scared to death of Persia ... Yemen, Sinai, Libya ... this thing is bad... . That’s why Russia is so key... . Is Russia that bad? They’re bad guys. But the world is full of bad guys.” Bannon

tand. Ailes, a veteran of the Nixon, Reagan, and Bush 41 White Houses, was growing worried by the presiden

le, and has this led him to want to deal firmly with them from the outset? Egypt received a message to the effect that Al-Qaeda was in control of the Sinai and that Israel therefore felt itself free to act as it wishes. Alternatively, could Netanyahu's thinking be headed in another direction, such that

REAK --- Article 4. NYT Does Foreign Policy Matter? Roger Cohen June 16, 2011— Perhaps foreign policy doesn’t matter in U.S. elections. President George H.W. Bush orchestrated a peaceful unwinding of the Cold War that united Germany within the West. A Europe divided became whole and free. Hundreds of millions o

” With the U.S. economy wobbling, Obama runs the Bush Sr. risk. He got Bin Laden and has been on the right

Psychotic? John Matson Anicle2- | The Financial Times Why Libya sceptics were proved badly wrong Anne-Marie Slaughter Article S- | Foreign Policy Sinai’s Bedouin run amok in post-Mubarak Egypt Mohamed Fadel Fahmy ance |The National Interest Foreign-Policy Failure Dimitri K. Simes Article 5. NYT C

e writer is a former director of policy planning for the US state department HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024601 --- PAGE BREAK --- Article 3. Foreign Policy Sinai’s Bedouin run amok in post- Mubarak Egypt Mohamed Fadel Fahmy AUGUST 24, 2011 -- The landscape of Egypt's lawless North Sinai governorate is punctu

l Interest Foreign-Policy Failure Dimitri K. Simes August 24, 2011 -- PRESIDENT BARACK Obama is in many respects the opposite of Richard Nixon and George H. W. Bush, both foreign-policy presidents who subordinated their domestic ambitions to America’s national-security requirements. Moreover, where Obama has succ

ect negotiation with Israel is the only way to reach a deal. What have we been doing for the past 20 years? What have we been doing since [President George H.W.]| Bush told us that if we recognize Israel, accept the two-state solution and renounce violence, the U.S. will stand shoulder to shoulder with us? HOUSE_OV

adership also sought by Iran. In Egypt, too, the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist forces look set to reap an electoral dividend in November. The Sinai area has already become a zone of activity for Islamist terror directed against Israel, because of the breakdown in law and order in recent months. T

work so well (unless you think, apropos Iraq, that eight years and more than 100,000 lives later defines "well"). Obama has been more in the mold of George H. W. Bush and his secretary of state, Jim Baker, when the Eastern bloc was throwing off Moscow's shackles. Offer encouragement and stability, give a few speech

the region. Last week's attack on the Eilat road should be understood in this context. Some are hypothesizing that new Islamist groups forming in the Sinai or Palestinian groups in Gaza operating outside Hamas' control carried out the attack. But while such organizations might formally be separate from H