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continue to be a key partner in the decision-making process. Moreover, he did not hesitate to warn against the Shiite Crescent when Iran knocked on Sinai's doors from Gaza! With all this history, Egypt rejected the "Turkish model" that Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked it to follow the day he visited Cairo

ices around the world, and has counted the likes of George H.W. Bush and James Baker as advisors. Rubenstein is also vice chairman of the board at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he has endowed a chair in energy and the environment. Having signed Bill Gates' "giving pledge" -- promising to donate the majority of his w

nwar al-Sadat. In fact, by signing the peace agreement with Israel, he saved the Egyptian people a hundred years or more in efforts to liberate the Sinai soil, which the Egyptians now rely upon as a reliable source of one-third of the country's economy. In Syria, the so-called "Fortress of Arabism",

political, economic, military and human responsibility for any conflict should be with Iran if that is where we end up. Mr. Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations, where Mr. Levi is a senior fellow. Artick 4. Project Syndicate EFTA00630455 Sarkozy at Dusk Dominique Moisi 2012-02-21 —And the next French

urity forces and militants, as well as attacks on checkpoints, have since been reported. A land bridge between two continents, Africa and Asia, the Sinai Peninsula is approximately 60,000 square kilometres in area and contains two of Egypt's 27 governorates. Sinai has a population of about 600,000 p

k up loudly when the Brothers do illiberal things. Steven A. Cook - Steven A. Cook is Hasib J. Sabbagh senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square. He blogs at From the Potomac to the Euphrates. Asharq Al-Awsat Gaza tunnel tra

war al-Sadat. In fact, by signing the peace agreement with Israel, he saved the Egyptian people a hundred years or more in efforts to liberate the Sinai soil, which the Egyptians now rely upon as a reliable source of one-third of the country's economy. In Syria, the so-called "Fortress of Arabism",

political, economic, military and human responsibility for any conflict should be with Iran if that is where we end up. Mr. Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations, where Mr. Levi is a senior fellow. Article 4. Project Syndicate Sarkozy at Dusk Dominique Moisi 2012-02-21 — And the next French President wil

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

embarking upon nothing less than "positive neutralism" in redux. Steven A. Cook is Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Article 7. Washington Post - Book review `The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty ' by Dan Ariely Michael S. Roth August 10 -- Behavioral economis

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

ithin. Sadly, in the short term and in a highly volatile region, at present Mr Assad remains the least worst option. The writer is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and author of The Islamist HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031927 --- PAGE BREAK --- 16 Article 4. The Christian Science Monitor Libya endgame: Lessons for Syria'