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l dignity, justice and freedom that is not going away. They will have to share more power. The third group I hope will have to pay retail is Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood. Under Mubarak, in an odd way, the Brotherhood had it easy. Mubarak made sure that no authentic, legitimate, progressive, modern Egyptian
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024960 →urbances started in mid-March in Daraa, a southern city on the border with Jordan, when a dozen children were manhandled, arrested and carried off to Damascus for scribbling hostile graffiti on a wall. Distraught parents came down into the street to vent their anger at such heavy-handed brutality. They were
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024962 →table, at best. The protests started in mid-March in Daraa, in southern Syria, a city that has suffered from drought and neglect by the government in Damascus. The heavy hand of the ruling Baath party was particularly resented. Because it lies on the border with Jordan, and therefore in a security zone, all
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030031 →. That's a big problem. Israel's ultra-Orthodox Shas party has an outsized influence over Israel because of coalition politics. That's a problem. The Muslim Brotherhood will loom large in a free Egypt because it has an organizational head start. That may be a problem. Turkey's ruling Justice and Developme
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030051 →lidate our parties. We must thank the army for the role it played. But it was our revolution, not a coup d'état. ... If there are fair elections, the Muslim Brotherhood will only get 20 percent." Free elections are rare in the Arab world, so when they happen, everybody tries to vote — not only the residen
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030271 →its last. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030278 --- PAGE BREAK --- 12 Article 4. Asia Times Show goes on in Iraq's political circus Sami Moubayed May 28, 2011 -- DAMASCUS - Iraq has been absent from the world's radar since upheaval rocked the Arab world in January, toppling the regimes in Tunisia and Egypt and sending
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-syria/ FORTUNE INSIDERS INTERNATIONAL What the Middle East Needs Now from America Commentary by: Thomas J. Barrack Jr. OCTOBER 22, 2016, 9:00 AM EDT DAMASCUS, SYRIA. MARCH 13, 2016. People in a Damascus neighborhood, an area liberated when a ceasefire agreement between the Syrian Army and the rebels contro
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031716 →by a renewed Russian push. The competition for a caliphate has more contestants than just Iran, including ISIS, of course, as well as Turkey, and the Muslim Brotherhood. As the US withdraws, Russia is taking its place as the non-Arab power player in the Middle East. The chill in US-Russia relations has le
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Bashar al-Assad
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Bill Clinton
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George W. Bush
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Hillary Clinton
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Saddam Hussein
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Vladimir Putin
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Marc Rich
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Joe Biden
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