[…] been in the recent past. The official US view on Israel after 1949, for instance, was that it was a ‘major asset’ in the Cold War. With Egypt and Syria dallying with the Soviet bloc during this period this might have had some validity. However Israel did not join or participate in any way […]
[…] post-war period prior to the mid-1970s involve cooperation between Nazi veterans and/or neo fascists and particular Arab nationalist regimes, most notably those of Jamal ‘Abd al-Nasir in Egypt and Mu’ammar al-Qadhadafi in Libya, or factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). However in these cases, particularly those of the aforementioned regimes, it is quite […]
[…] and ordered the UN peacekeeping contingent from its buffer position in the Sinai between Egyptian and Israeli forces. However, as Tel Aviv, London and Washington knew, neither Egypt – whose main combat capability was tied down in a losing war in North Yemen – nor the hapless Syrians were in any position to pose […]
[…] current dictator. We do not know, at this stage, who is on the list and who is not. If Saudi Arabia is not on the watch list, Egypt is being pressured to get off it by putting in some rules for its presidential elections that show at least a willingness to accept the principle […]
[…] escalating tension between the West and the Soviet bloc. The second factor was the Suez crisis. The failure of the USA to support the Anglo-French invasion of Egypt led to different reactions in London and Paris. The British determined never again to fall out of step with Washington on strategic issues. The French however […]
[…] and special forces.(1) The robust Anglo-American position was not shared by others: there was to be no reemergence of the 1991 anti-Iraq coalition. Within the middle east Egypt dissented and Saudi Arabia made it clear that it would not provide a base for US troops in action against Iraq. The Russians, the French and […]
[…] May 2003 and, most recently, on BBC2, on 4 June 2003. Mitchell’s long, detailed study suggests that the attack was an attempt by the Israelis to get Egypt blamed for it in the hope of dragging the US into the war on the Israeli side. The subject arose on the Website of American neo-con […]
[…] global enterprise. ‘If you take the main Asian markets – Japan, India, China – and their derivatives – Indonesia, Bangla- desh, Pakistan, the Arab countries, East Africa, Egypt, Iran, Morocco – you have 80% of the world’s population.'(18) Much of this audience is aged under 30 and the marketing world believes we have made […]
[…] liberals and fundamentalists alike against a corrupt Saudi government nurtured by America; or, in seeming contradiction, harnessed the pan-Arab (secular) nationalism once championed by President Nasser of Egypt – one of the best PR-men the Middle East has ever produced. America could still have responded in T-shirt terms, and used it as shorthand for […]
[…] on the contemporary domestic British political scene. In the beginning The origins of the contemporary political situation in Cyprus lie not in the island itself but in Egypt in the early fifties. Following the election there in 1950 of the Wafd movement on an anti-British ticket, the new prime minister, Nahas Pasha, opposed the […]
