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Egypt’s evolving governance is no ‘democratic transition’

Egypt, Perspective /

By Michele Dunne and Thomas Carothers   Michele Dunne is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where Thomas Carothers is vice president for studies. In the half-year since the Egyptian military ousted President Mohamed Morsi, U.S. officials from President Obama on down have repeatedly said that the United States seeks to advance “Egypt’s transition […]

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America chooses the wrong allies in Egypt

America, Egypt, Middle East, Perspective /

By Jackson Diehl   While a minority of Egyptian voters straggled to the polls last week to ratify a new constitution enshrining a police state; while emerging strongman Gen. Abdel Fatah al-Sissi theatrically prepared to announce whether he will deign to become president; and while Secretary of State John Kerry pronounced himself “hopeful — though not yet certain” that the military

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Of negotiations and high treason: Israel-Palestine ‘peace’

Israel, Palestine, Perspective /

by Susan Abulhawa The corrupt PA is incapable of achieving the dignity of Palestinian self-determination, writes the author. No good for Palestinians will come of the current Middle East talks. Worse, harm seems likely. These negotiations threaten to undo years of work by Palestinian civil society and solidarity partners around the world who have been

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Exclusive: With Muslim Brotherhood crushed, Egypt sets sights on Hamas

Egypt, Perspective /

BY YASMINE SALEH   (Reuters) – After crushing the Muslim Brotherhood at home, Egypt’s military rulers plan to undermine the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which runs the neighboring Gaza Strip, senior Egyptian security officials told Reuters. The aim, which the officials say could take years to pull off, includes working with Hamas’s political rivals Fatah

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ICC Receives “Devastating” Dossier on British War Crimes

Britain, Perspective /

By Felicity Arbuthnot January 15, 2014 “Information Clearing House – A “devastating” two hundred and fifty page document: “The Responsibility of UK Officials for War Crimes Involving Systematic Detainee Abuse in Iraq from 2003-2008″, has been “presented to the International Criminal Court, and could result in some of Britain’s leading defence figures facing prosecution for “systematic” war

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Hamas denounces ‘threats’ of potential Egyptian attack on Gaza

Blogs, Egypt, Palestine /

Hamas’s spokesman accuses Egypt and Fatah of aiming to destroy Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip   Sami Abu-Zuhri, a spokesman for the Islamist Palestinian movement Hamas (Photo: Reuters)   Rulers of the Gaza Strip Hamas condemned Wednesday recent statements allegedly made by Egyptian officials regarding a potential military offence on the Strip bordering Egypt

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A Palestinian-Hezbollah War in Lebanon?

Egypt, Palestine, Perspective /

by FRANKLIN LAMB   Pressures Mounting   Ain el Helweh camp, Lebanon It’s not just the leadership of the Zionist regime still occupying Palestine, six decades after the 1948 Nakba, that appears to be salivating at the current stoking of  current tensions between the Palestinian Resistance and in some respects, its historic off-spring Hezbollah. From Tel

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Egypt Gone Bad

Egypt, Perspective /

By Lawrence Davidson January 03, 2014 “Information Clearing House –   This past week the confrontation between Egypt’s ruling regime and the country’s Muslim Brotherhood intensified. In an act that should make anyone familiar with this ongoing struggle sit up and shake their head, the “military-backed government” in Cairo declared Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood a “terrorist organization.” In case anyone

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