How Cairo, Washington Were Blindsided by Revolution – WSJ.com. Seems Obama wasn’t doing “enough talking” – that’s all it takes, you know. ============= Two months before Egypt exploded in popular rage, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Egypt’s foreign minister, in her seventh-floor offices in Washington. U.S. officials were miffed that Cairo was ignoring their pleas to make... Read more
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Israel Asks West to Help Guard Pact With Egypt
February 2 | Posted by mrossol | Middle EastIsrael Asks West to Help Guard Pact With Egypt – WSJ.com. The Israeli question – something I did not think could “hide” for very long. =========== JERUSALEM—Unnerved by the quickening collapse of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s regime, Israel is pressing the U.S. and other Western leaders to demand that any successor in Egypt preserve that country’s peace accord with the... Read more
