Egypt appeared Friday on the cusp of a protracted battle for control of the country's once-promising revolution, with military council supporters and anti-government protesters staging rival demonstrations, and neither side willing to concede ground to the other. Tens of thousands of people flocked to Tahrir Square, the iconic center of Egyptian calls for change, where they denounced as an insult the ruling military council's selection of a 77-year-old politician who once served under deposed President Hosni Mubarak to be the country's new interim prime minister.
It doesn't take a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern studies to identify the losers in the popular revolutions currently sweeping the region. Egypt's Mubarak, Tunisia's Ben Ali, Libya's Gaddafi and Yemen's Saleh are either gone or battling to retain power. Syria's army is machine-gunning protesters in the streets, and Saudi forces are assaulting Shiite demonstrators in neighboring Bahrain. Israel feels increasingly threatened from all sides. However, it is also important to identify the two "winners" in the Middle East, which I plan to do in this and next week's columns. Champagne corks are popping in Iran and Turkey amid the recent turmoil, and it's important to understand why. By any objective measure, the influence of Iran and its state religion, Shia Islam, have grown enormously in the past de...
...When Israel's late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin began peace negotiations wi...
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- In a widening crackdown on Hamas, Israel arrested the founder of the group's military wing Saturday and moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pushed forward with a plan to cut off cash to the Islamic militants. Abbas' Fatah movement rejected an offer for dialogue from the top Hamas leader, deposed Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh.
Libya's new rulers urged the visiting leaders of Britain and France on Thursday to continue NATO airstrikes in the North African nation as rebels entered one of deposed dictator Moammar Gadhafi's last remaining strongholds. British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy traveled to the Libyan capital Tripoli and Benghazi, the birthplace of the revolution in the east, on Thursday. They were the first foreign leaders to visit Libya since Col. Gadhafi's ouster.
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's new military rulers said Thursday they have assumed the duties of parliament, which was dissolved when the government was ousted in a coup earlier this week, and they banned meetings by all political parties. The new regime also said it has detained four top members of deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's administration.
RAMALLAH, West Bank - First, Hamas militiamen were filmed beating guests at a bachelor party. Then, the deposed Hamas prime minister claimed Fatah forces had tortured a Hamas activist to death, only to have the prisoner, very much alive, presented in a TV broadcast. The power struggle between the Palestinian rivals over image and credibility is increasingly playing out on TV screens. The two clips, broadcast repeatedly on Fatah-affiliated Palestine TV, were the talk of the Palestinian territories Saturday.
EVEN in a country such as Australia without land borders, border security is a big issue, as asylum seekers - many from Sri Lanka and Afghanistan - have braved the Indian Ocean to reach Australia's shores. The issue is of such importance that Prime Minister Julia Gillard used her first big policy speech Tuesday to announce a change in her Labor Party's immigration policies. Thus Gillard marked a sharp departure from the policies of former Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, whom Gillard deposed last month. President Obama should take notes on Gillard's rhetoric. An astute politician who sees the need to move her party toward the center, Gillard understands how to talk about the issue in a way that doesn't demonize people whose votes she may well need.
McClatchy Newspapers RAFAH, Gaza Strip - For more than 25 years, Ghazi Hamad has been a reliable champion for Hamas and its hard-line Islamist ideology, first as a leader of Palestinian street protests, then as an editor of a pro-Hamas newspaper and most recently as the chief spokesman for deposed Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh.
Deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Tuesday that he was planning to return home from exile after his supporters' victory in parliamentary elections, sparking fears of more political conflict in Thailand. Thaksin, who was ousted by the military in a coup last year, told reporters in Hong Kong that he will "explore options" for a comeback between mid-February and April but will not try to return to political office.
JERUSALEM (AP) - Envoys from the United States, European Union, Russia and the U.N. will meet Tuesday in Jerusalem for the first time since Islamic Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip, U.N. and Israeli officials said Friday. The meeting comes as moderate regional leaders try to use Hamas'takeover of the chaotic territory to try to promote peacemaking between Israel and moderate Palestinians in the West Bank led by President Mahmoud Abbas, of Fatah. But deposed Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas'leader, warned Friday that his movement could not be ignored.
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