Word: mubarak
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...added a little side-trip to Tanzania (a mere five hours' flight farther east) to help out good friend Nelson Mandela with the tricky Burundian peace talks. In mid-journey it announced that on the way back he'd pop in on Cairo, Egypt, for some consultations with President Mubarak about the Middle East peace talks...
...President Clinton's difficulty may have been underlined by the fact that a longtime ally, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, has been on a lightning shuttle through Arab capitals to ensure that the Saudis, Jordanians, Syrians and Egyptians speak with one voice in insisting that no compromise be made on the demand for Palestinian sovereignty in East Jerusalem (except for the Jewish and Armenian quarters of the Old City and the Western Wall of the Jewish Temple). Barak, meanwhile, has taken flak back home for even offering Palestinians the limited authority in parts of East Jerusalem...
...little to do with democracy. Israel is the only democracy in the region, and that may be a good thing if peace is the goal. Popular opinion in Egypt, Jordan and among Palestinians is far more hostile to Israel than are the political elites who interface with Washington. President Mubarak, King Hussein and Yasser Arafat would have had a hard time concluding their peace agreements with the Jewish state if they had to answer, in short order, to an electorate...
...order of the death of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the great Egyptian leader and pan-Arabist--but melancholy. Coming soon after the death of Jordan's King Hussein, Assad's passing marked a changing of the guard--and, perhaps, new volatility--in the region as leaders like Egypt's Hosni Mubarak (71), Yasser Arafat (71) and Saudi Arabia's King Fahd (79) grow...
...Hezbollah would prefer a unilateral withdrawal that would allow them to proclaim themselves the first army ever to have liberated Arab territory from Israeli control," says MacLeod. "But despite a potential conflict with Syria, Hezbollah's enjoying a surge of support throughout the Arab world - Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and Saudi Arabia's Prince Abdallah recently rushed to Beirut to meet with the movement's leaders, suggesting there's strong grassroots support for the guerrillas throughout the Middle East...