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Who’s isolating whom?

Despite their fear of Iran and of Islamist movements at home, most Arab regimes seem loth to co-operate wholeheartedly with America in the region

YOU can’t have it both ways, is what America’s secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, is telling Arab audiences during a tour of friendly capitals to rally sagging support for American policy in the Middle East. Y..

THERE is a degree of surrealism in all of this. Hamas has presented its choice of Prime Minister to President Mahmoud Abbas, as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine says it has agreed in principle to join a Hamas-led government.

In the Arab world, such political transformation (that of Islamists and Socialists working together to create a transparent and democratic Parl..

 The reality shown by Hamas’ victory in the Palestinian elections is this: If fully free elections were held today in the rest of the Arab world, Islamist parties would win in most states.
Even with intensive international efforts to support "civil society" and nongovernmental organizations, elections in five years would probably yield the same results.
The notion, popular in Washing..

When Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a high-profile tour of Egypt and Saudi Arabia last June, she confronted those governments about opening up their political systems. Revisiting both countries this week, however, her call for greater democracy appeared more muted, as some of the aftershocks of the democracy push have given autocratic governments more leverage in their dealings with t..

Nothing better captures the broad lines of the great contestation that now defines the Middle East than the four very telegenic characters who have crisscrossed the region during the past week: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, her colleague in charge of U.S. public policy, Karen Hughes, Hamas official Khaled Meshaal and the young Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Their travels have been cl..

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Political and judiciary sources said a superior decree has been made to suspend investigations of the Higher Prosecution of the State Security with the four justices of the Cassation Court on their statements on ballot rigging. Recently, the Higher Judiciary Council resolved to withdraw the judiciary immunity of four justices to face investigations. 
 
The sources added the con..

The amir said Qatar would continue to aid Palestinians 
Shaikh Hamad bin Khalifah Al Thani, the amir of Qatar, has pledged backing for Hamas following its victory in the recent Palestinian elections, rejecting Israel-led efforts to isolate the Islamic group.

Shaikh Hamad was speaking in Doha, the Qatari capital, on Monday after talks with Hosni Mubarak, the ..

Egypt’s Islamic opposition movement the Muslim Brotherhood has launched a public awareness campaign aimed at fighting the spread of bird flu, the pan-Arab al-Quds al-Arabi daily reported on Monday. The Egyptian health authorities have identified the virus in flocks in 13 of the country’s 26 districts. The outlawed but tolerated Muslim Brotherhood has strongly criticised the Egyptian government..

Egypt continues crackdown on reformists as US appears distracted with other issues
Egypt’s government is cracking down on pro-reform activists, calculating that Washington’s drive to democratise the Middle East has flagged after Islamist successes in Egyptian and Palestinian elections, analysts say.

The prospect of civil war in Iraq has also distracted the United States and dampe..