Epstein Secrets

in Egypt. Any KGB officer worth his epaulettes won't have forgotten the loss to Washington of what was EFTA00706388 once a highly valued prize in North Africa. The unraveling of the Arab Spring made that prize attainable again. As Georgy Mirsky, a pro-Kremlin Arabist, told the Financial Times: "Our gover

n welcome this development. Whether by openly endorsing Russian rhetoric about an end of the Cold War and the Great Game, as President Obama did at the U.N. General Assembly in September, or by coining new euphemisms for a reluctance to involve itself in regional wars ("leading from behind"), the current administration

d to offer brief hope that Hamas would reposition itself away from the "resistance" camp in the region and toward the camp of Islamist movements in North Africa that were dedicated to making political Islam the basis of a practicable governing system. That would have required taking reconciliation with Isr

again on center stage. The Palestinian president is nowhere to be found. For all the attention paid to Abbas's statehood initiative this month at the U.N. General Assembly, it seems truly irrelevant now. And once again, this is confirmation of the fact that events on the ground determine what's up and down in Israel a

s. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031916 --- PAGE BREAK --- 5 Article 2. Strattor Israeli-Arab Crisis Approaching George Friedman August 22, 2011 -- In September, the U.N. General Assembly will vote on whether to recognize Palestine as an independent and sovereign state with full rights in the United Nations. In many ways, this would ap

t partially succeeded in distancing al-Qaeda's message from core Islamic values. Concerned about this eroding base, bin Laden counseled affiliates in North Africa and Yemen to hold back on their efforts to develop a local Islamic extremist state in favor of attacking the United States and its interests. HOUSE_O