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...Egyptian and Israeli leaders meet in the U.S. to discuss a framework for lasting peace. In exchange for diplomatic recognition, Israel in 1979 agrees to return the Sinai peninsula. Other issues are shelved...
...fact, certain Israeli measures are not qualitatively different than Dershowitz’s chilling proposal. On Jan. 10, for example, Israeli Defense Forces arrived in the middle of the night, with no prior warning, and demolished 60 houses in the Rafah refugee camp, near the Egyptian border. Families awoke in panic, grabbed their children and fled, while the bulldozers destroyed their houses with all their possessions inside. Over 600 people were made homeless that night. It is hard to think of any neutral definition of terrorism that would not encompass this...
...Cheney got no further with President Hosni Mubarak, another traditional U.S. ally. The Egyptian leader also hammered on the Palestinian issue. "This is topping our agenda because it is the core of all the turmoil," explains an Egyptian official. "We have a crisis on our hands and it is a crisis that is drifting into the worst crisis the area has ever witnessed. Frustration will lead to more violence, and create a new generation of terrorists. No one will escape the consequences...
...Egyptians believe it was folly for Cheney to initiate discussion about Iraq at a moment when all Arab leaders are totally consumed with Israel and the Palestinians. "If you want support for a plan, pay attention to what public opinion in the area is asking for," huffs an Egyptian official. "What is the relationship between the Taliban and Iraq? If the issue is weapons of mass destruction, then everybody is aware that Iraq's capacity has been demolished while others in the area (i.e. Israel) have a capacity that nobody is talking about. If you are an Arab, the question...
...That's still the official line about the Jan. 11 deportation of Pakistani Havis Muhhamad Saad Iqbal; but Egyptian diplomats have never heard of him. "We have no knowledge of this matter," says Minister Plenipotentiary Reda El-Taify. "We are not aware that Egyptian intelligence was ever in Indonesia or that the Pakistani was wanted in Egypt." So where did Havis go? One clue: the 25-year-old was wanted by the U.S. for a possible connection to the shoe bomber, Richard Reid. Intelligence sources in Jakarta say Havis was bundled onto a CIA Gulfstream G-5 executive...