The news generated by the Middle East in recent years has usually been bad. Hamas took over the Gaza Strip, the Muslim Brotherhood took over Egypt and Turkey became an aggressive neo-Ottoman power. The Iranian rebellion was quashed, Iraq was drawn into the Shi'ite sphere of influence and Syria turned into a gruesome slaughterhouse. Even in Libya, which raised hopes for a while, the American ambassador was...
The Fayyad opportunity is fading
Maybe he'll survive the rebellion against him, maybe he won't. But the flicker of hope embodied in the first Mapainik Palestinian is fading away.
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