Epstein Secrets

ble middle class. The gap between rich and poor will persist as a source of popular dissatisfaction. To make matters worse, by 2030 more than half the Middle East's population will still be under 34. This persistent "youth bulge" will challenge even efficient regimes, as demands for jobs, social services and u

d, in January, to Turkey — a country whose electoral democracy and moderate Islamism are serving as a "model" to a growing number of Hamas leaders, Yousef said. One month after that trip, though, Haniyeh visited Iran, another longtime Hamas benefactor. Despite public discontent, Hamas officials seem

d their sympathizers) -- has hurt Israel, but has it actually, as Brzezinski alleges, "contributed significantly to the general mess we now have in the Middle East"? Let's look at the Middle East as it is today. Here is a partial catalog of phenomena that plausibly illustrate the idea that the Middle East is a

EFTA00636716 Alon Tal of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev is a visiting professor at the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University. Yousef Abu- Mayla is a water expert at Al Azhar University in Gaza. Anicic 7. Spiegel old CW ar in the Pacific: China Escalates Tensions with Neighbors

Her e-mail address is elisa_cnumeriapbpostcom David Ignatius Turning disaster to opportunity Groping for a way to understand the ruinous mess in the Middle East, I find myself looking back- ward to an earlier ruinous mess, the Yom Kippur War of October 1973. That long-ago war, like the cur- rent one in Leba

old the CIA about bin laden's plans to knock down big buildings using plants and blow up airliners using small chemical bombs. That was in 1995. Yousef was later convicted in the US. for the MI bombing of the Workl Trade Center. On Thursday. the British arrest- ed 24 people, including one airport