Egypt

LESSONS ON EGYPT FROM CARTER AND THE SHAH

February 1, 2011 The fate of Iran after the U.S. abandoned its ally shows where events this week could lead. By RONEN BERGMAN The White House’s reaction to the rioting in Egypt is shortsighted—and typical of what is wrong with the Obama administration’s Middle East policy. Only days ago, President Hosni Mubarak was a longstanding […]

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THE ROCHE RECORD – CAN WE GET SERIOUS PLEASE, OUR GREAT COUNTRY IS AT RISK

CAN WE GET SERIOUS PLEASE, OUR GREAT COUNTRY IS AT RISK by Frank Roche, Economist Throughout American history, in good times and bad, policy makers have always faced difficult challenges, choices, and final decisions.  American policy makers in 2011 face their own difficult challenges, choices, and final decisions.  What I sense is missing today among policy makers is a sufficient degree of seriousness,

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EGYPT AFLAME: WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

ONEJERUSALEM.ORG Egypt Aflame: What Does It Mean? January 30, 2011 The world is watching violent demonstrations in the streets of Cairo and other Egyptian cities. There has been a call for a General Strike until (unspecified) demands are met. The Mubarak government is reshuffling. One new story claims that Mubarak’s family left the country. President Obama is

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TURMOIL IN EGYPT

JANUARY 31, 2011 Opposition Unites in Egypt Islamists, Secularists Back Moderate ElBaradei as Army Lets Protests Rage By CHARLES LEVINSON, MARGARET COKER and SUMMER SAID CAIRO—Egypt’s opposition groups lined up behind a moderate leader comfortable on the world stage as their best chance to oust President Hosni Mubarak Sunday, while the nation’s military closed ranks

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WILL TUNISIA BE THE FIRST DOMINO?

JANUARY 26, 2011 In Egypt, too, protestors are laying waste to the mistaken notion that Arabs and Muslims are politically passive. By ANWAR IBRAHIM Tunisians earlier this month forced their president out of office, marking the first popular revolution in an Arab country in modern history. The swiftness with which it came about should send

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RIOTERS JOLT EGYPTIAN REGIME

JANUARY 26, 2011 By MATT BRADLEY CAIRO—Tens of thousands of protesters clashed with police in cities across Egypt on Tuesday to demand the ouster of the president, as shock waves from Tunisia’s successful revolt against its leader two weeks ago continued to rumble through the Middle East. WSJ’s Matt Bradley reports from Cairo on the

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EGYPT’S PRISON OF HATE

JANUARY 4, 2011 Egypt’s Prison of Hate You know a country is in trouble when it blames shark attacks on the Mossad. By BRET STEPHENS Following the New Year’s Eve massacre of a score of Coptic Christian worshippers outside a church in Alexandria, Egyptians are wasting no time fingering the likely culprit. “With careful consideration,”

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