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...made peace with Egypt and gave back all the land, all the peace. We did the same thing with the Jordanians. We gave back all the land, all the water and we have a peace—at least no war—with the Jordanians. Now we are trying to reach a peace with the Palestinians...
Firth M. McEachern ’08, who has dual citizenship in United States and Canada but grew up in Nepal, Cambodia and Egypt, said that Egyptians are particularly nervous about the upcoming presidential election. He also said he is following the U.S. election more closely than past Egyptian or Canadian elections...
...Egyptian native Ayman al-Zawahiri, calling for Muslims to support the Palestinian uprising by attacking Israel and the U.S. Mohammed Salah, an Egyptian expert on Islamic groups, notes that the Sinai operation targeted a number of key interests of al-Qaeda's sworn enemies: the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, Egypt's promotion of a comprehensive Middle East peace settlement and the security of Israel and Egypt, Washington's two key allies in the region. Says Salah: "This attack is one that aimed to kill 10 birds with one stone." --By Scott MacLeod. With reporting by Amany Radwan, Jamil Hamad...
...MONTH AFTER Israel warned its citizens to stay out of Egypt, citing a "concrete" terrorism threat with the Sinai Peninsula as a possible target, suicide bombers last week shredded a five-star Sinai hotel and another resort, which were packed with Israelis at the end of a Jewish holiday. Even more ominous, Israeli officials and Arab analysts suspect that the attacks may have marked the debut in the region of a dangerous new enemy: al-Qaeda. As Palestinian groups denied responsibility for the bombings, Israeli Chief of Army Intelligence Aharon Zeevi-Farkash reportedly told Israel's Cabinet that the most...
...even a clear process for selecting one in a political system that has, since the early 1950s, been dominated by the security establishment, and in which the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood remains, by most estimates, the most popular opposition group. The bombers have certainly turned up the heat on Egypt at a moment when the system's structural weakness are under strain. The effects of the carnage along the Red Sea may eventually be felt by many more than just the families of the victims...