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If Egypt wants to regain its lost prestige, it must not follow Iran Emile Hokayem, Political Editor Last Updated: December 09. 2008 9:24PM UAE / December 9. 2008 5:24PM GMT Middle Eastern politics have often a mild-mannered, almost obsequious quality in public, but less so behind closed doors, where interests and personalities often collide. This is no different from anywhere else in the world, except that Middle Eastern leaders face a disproportionate number of strategic and symbolic limitations that make them even more cautious in their public pronouncements. It only takes an accusation of being weak in support of the...

Wednesday, March 15, 2006Jericho and Justice / Kidnapping and Chaos Let's put this widely reported story in context: On 17 October 2001 members of the Popular Front For The Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) gunned down Israeli Tourism Minister Rehevam Ze'evi in a Jerusalem hotel. Five Palestinian terrorists were eventually charged in the murder. In April, 2002 Israel was besieging the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in his Muqata compound in Ramallah after still more terrorist attacks the previous month. The United States brokered an agreement between Arafat and the government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to end the siege. The IDF...

Mar. 15, 2006 3:08 | Updated Mar. 15, 2006 18:01 Olmert: Israel will try 'Jericho Six' By HERB KEINON AND JPOST.COM STAFF Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday that the six Palestinians arrested by the IDF in its Tuesday raid on a Jericho prison will be charged and tried by Israel. Five of the prisoners, including Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestinian head Ahmed Sa'adat, were found guilty in a Palestinian court of the 2001 assassination of Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi, and the sixth, Fuad Shubaki, was found guilty of smuggling weapons into the territories via the Karine...

ARAB RACISM & ISLAMIC JIHAD!!! Are Militant Muslims DECAPITATING Tourists in S. Philippines? IT'S ARAB MUSLIM FANATICS' RACISM + JIHAD!!! Did Sadistic Saddam attack Arab Kuwaiti 'brothers' tortured them horrifically? IT'S ARAB MUSLIM FANATICS' RACISM + JIHAD!!! Did Sadistic Saddam BUTCHER/GASSED/TORTURED HIS OWN PEOPLE? IT'S ARAB MUSLIM FANATICS' RACISM + JIHAD!!! Do Arab Muslim Militant Hamas/Islamic-Jihad/other 'Palestinian' Militants (& often Fatah - connected to the official 'Palestinian' authority) TARGET BABIES, (not as the West targets terrorists) Yes or no? IT'S ARAB MUSLIM FANATICS' RACISM + JIHAD!!! Did Arab Islamists attack French subways? (1985) IT'S ARAB MUSLIM FANATICS' RACISM +...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - The Palestinian Cabinet on Friday discussed the fate of two senior officials imprisoned as part of a U.S.-brokered deal that led to Yasser Arafat (news - web sites)'s release from Israeli confinement this week, and Palestinian officials said they expected the two to be freed soon.Palestinian officials said that under the U.S. deal, the fate of Ahmed Saadat and Fuad Shobaki was left in the hands of the Palestinian legal system.Israeli officials disputed the claim, saying they were assured by the United States that Saadat and Shobaki would remain locked up as a condition for...

<p>JERICHO, West Bank — Few guards and little more than a hedge confine Ahmed Saadat and five fellow prisoners held in a Palestinian Authority jail under a U.S.-brokered deal five weeks ago.</p> <p>Israel's siege of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah was ended by the deal, under which imprisonment of the six men was to be supervised by the United States and Britain. But there was no sign of any Americans or Britons during a visit last week to the cluster of low, brown buildings in the palm-lined Jordan River Valley comprising the Palestinian security compound here.</p>

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) chief, Ahmed Saadat urged the Palestinian Authority not to yield to US and Israeli pressure to keep him in jail. "There is no reason to keep me under arrest other than US and Israeli blackmail," Saadat told the Arabic daily al-Hayat, from his jail in the West Bank town of Jericho. Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority "should implement the court decision to release me, as it expresses its legal jurisdiction over its land," he added. The Palestinian High Court on Monday ruled that despite Israeli accusations, there was no evidence linking Saadat to...