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...greatest?military commander in Israeli history. It's what enabled him, from a variety of Cabinet posts, to construct settlements in the face of international opprobrium. But it's also what allowed him not only to evacuate Gaza but, 23 years earlier, to tear down settlements in Egypt's Sinai peninsula and use water cannons to force out the Israelis there, putting Israel in compliance with Israel's 1979 peace treaty with Egypt...
...years later he fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that erupted after Israel declared its independence. As he rose through the ranks, he played a significant role in every one of Israel's wars. In 1967 he commanded one of three divisions that wrested the Sinai peninsula from Egypt. In 1973 he led a counterattack in Sinai that broke through Egyptian lines and ended up just 60 miles outside Cairo...
...part of Ghosh's curious luck that he often seems to be in the thick of things: he was a schoolboy in Sri Lanka just before civil war broke up the island, and he was living in rural Egypt when villagers around him started going to Saddam Hussein's Iraq in search of jobs. He was in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. The disappearance of seeming paradises has been his lifelong companion. More than that, though, he is an amphibian of sorts who knows what it is to be both witness and victim. Though he has a doctorate...
...Russia of behaving irresponsibly. And in the European Union, the biggest export market for Russian gas, officials said that reducing dependence on Russia and ensuring security of energy supplies are now top priorities. Measures under consideration include plans to diversify gas supplies, stock up on liquefied natural gas from Egypt, Nigeria and elsewhere, and develop alternative energy. "Europe needs a clear and more collective and cohesive policy on security of energy supply," said Andris Piebalgs, the E.U.'s Energy Commissioner. An unexpected winner after the Ukrainian fracas might be the nuclear-power industry. Some Germans are questioning plans in their...
...place by major record labels. Dozens of blogs, Boing Boing among them, picked up on the story, and it spread across interested circles on the ’net like wildfire.What frustrated Zuckerman was that at roughly the same time a far larger protest was underway in Cairo, Egypt: Sudanese refugees were trying to gain humanitarian assistance and the right to resettle. Their protest drew almost no coverage in the world of popular blogs. Nevertheless, this doesn’t necessarily represent a problem inherent with blogs. For one, it seems likely it’s a temporary state...