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

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ound, changing their directions when bumping into each other. In a two dimensional bounded arena of randomly rolling balls, this game has been called Sinai’s billiards. It was named for previously mentioned Ya Sinai, an eminent Russian mathematician He is now at Princeton and was previously a student of

combining sensitivity to initial conditions and characteristic geometries and measures. It was the Russian mathematicians, A.N. Kolmogorov (1957), Sinai (1959) and V.I. Arnold (Arnold and Avez, 1968), the French mathematicians, Rene Thom (1972) and David Ruelle (1978) and the U.C. Berkeley mathematici

st few years: ¢ The United States hired Islamic State terrorists to sabotage the Russian commercial airliner that was destroyed after takeoff in the Sinai in 2015. ¢ A three-year-old boy was crucified by the U.S.- backed Ukrainian army in Slovyansk in 2014. ¢ The United States is planning a major war

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

President of the Republic of Egypt. 26 July 1956 President Nasser of Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal. 29 October 1956 Suez Crisis. Israel invades Sinai (Operation Kadesh) with the covert assent of France and the UK. 30 October 1956 France and the UK launch military operations against Egypt. 5 Novemb

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

they have no Arab partner w whom they can negotiate a peace. Syria reinforces notion that Israel should not take risk when regimes are fragile. DR. Sinai is flashpoint w Egypt. Admin has had a very meaning? Palestinian issue is not key. Wasn’t art of Islamic awakening, but it is not insignificant. Demo

ong independence, internal tension and imperial ambition. Israeli Geography and Borderlands At its height, under King David, Israel extended from the Sinai to the Euphrates, encompassing Damascus. It occupied some, but relatively little, of the coastal region, an area beginning at what today is Haifa and

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

licy shifts and the chaos in Egypt. The new Egyptian border policy has made little difference, but Egypt's revolution and its reduced policing in the Sinai have had a profound effect. For the past year, Israel has allowed most everything into Gaza but cement, steel and other construction material - other

hope was to end the threat of fedayeen strikes, at least in the south, by taking control both of Gaza and the enormous natural buffer afforded by the Sinai Desert. Militarily, it went to plan. On October 29, 1956, Yigal and other paratroopers from Battalion 890 were dropped deep into the Sinai. They land

hope was to end the threat of fedayeen strikes, at least in the south, by taking control both of Gaza and the enormous natural buffer afforded by the Sinai Desert. Militarily, it went to plan. On October 29, 1956, Yigal and other paratroopers from Battalion 890 were dropped deep into the Sinai. They land

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