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...Supreme State Security Court. If convicted, he could face up to 15 years at hard labor, a sentence likely to trigger protests in Egypt and beyond. Frank Wisner, a former U.S. ambassador in Cairo, has criticized the case for doing "great harm." A conviction could hurt U.S.-Egyptian relations, since Ibrahim holds dual citizenship and teaches at the American University in Cairo...
...Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza appear to be emerging as a point of contention between Israel and the U.S. Washington has called on Israel to freeze settlement activity, in line with the recommendations of a Jordanian-Egyptian cease-fire proposal and also the conclusion of the Mitchell Report into the causes of the current violence. Yet Israel is strongly opposed to a blanket freeze on settlement activity...
...think the global economy is vast now, wait until Hernando de Soto is through with it. Where most see Egyptian shantytowns, De Soto sees tiny businesses and homes that together are worth 35 times more than the companies traded on the Cairo stock exchange. That grimy army of Mexico City street vendors, he claims, is part of an underground economy that helps create 85% of Latin America's new jobs. All it takes to jump-start economic growth in poor nations, he insists, is to legalize those clandestine markets, unleashing legions of new creditworthy entrepreneurs who can be trading partners...
...Palestinian side has ample cause to be skeptical of the Egyptian-Jordanian plan, too. Where the Israelis' prime concern is halting the violence, Arafat's priority remains the "final status" negotiations over Palestinian statehood, Jerusalem, refugees and other hot-button issues that collapsed at Camp David. But both Sharon and Peres have made abundantly clear that the offers Israel made last year have been withdrawn, and despite the cease-fire proposal's suggestion that negotiations resume where they left off last year, Israel has no interest right now in even discussing the final status issues left unresolved by Oslo. "There...
Washington's mistakes are sometimes so basic that its rivals can't believe they're really mistakes, and instead react as if they're part of a master plan. That observation by former Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser may hold true for the Bush administration's China policy. Beijing reacted furiously Thursday to President Bush's vow to "do whatever it takes" - including weighing the use of force - to defend Taiwan in the event of a confrontation, warning that Washington was "heading down a dangerous road." And President Bush's own backpedaling on those comments by repeatedly emphasizing the continuity...