Tag Archives: Abdallah Schleifer
Libyan deal on course, but who is on board?
By : Abdallah Schleifer Last week, representatives of the internationally-recognized Libyan government in Tobruk, and the General National Congress (GNC) – the Islamist-dominated rival authority in Tripoli – signed a U.N.-brokered agreement to form a unity government, which was quickly
Boredom at the ballot box in Egypt
By : Abdallah Schleifer It’s almost all over. A parliamentary election for Egypt’s House of Representatives, which has dragged on for over a month and has been about as boring as it has been complicated, is drawing to a close.
A royal solution to Libya’s chaos
By : Abdallah Schleifer Over the past year Bernardino León, the U.N. Special Envoy to Libya, has been mediating between the internationally recognized Libyan government in Tobruk and the rival Islamist-dominated General National Congress (GNC) in Tripoli. The Libyan government
Sisi back from Jordan and off to court China
By : Abdallah Schleifer Reading the official communiques coming from both Jordan and Egypt following last Thursday’s official visit of Egyptian President Al-Sisi to Amman and his meeting with King Abdallah II provoked a curious nostalgia. It was not nostalgia
Beheadings and suicide bombings: The new rage in Libya
By : Abdallah Schleifer How many more beheadings have to take place in Benghazi and Derna before U.N. representatives or Western statesmen stop talking about the need for all parties in the Libyan civil war to sit down and negotiate
Egypt prepares for the worst in Libya
By: Abdallah Schleifer Libya is on the edge of chaos. The architects of that chaos, a military-political alliance called “The Libyan Shield” made up of Muslim Brotherhood members, the pro-Brotherhood militias from Misrata and the murderous salafist-jihadists of Ansar al-Sharia,
Why is international media changing sides on the Gaza crisis?
By: Abdallah Schleifer Three weeks ago, the Egyptian media’s take on Gaza was that, by and large, it was Hamas’ fault. Media outlets covered the heavy volley of Hamas rockets that came as part of the usual tit-for-tat exchange –
Egypt and Libya: It’s crunch time as jihadists threaten both countries
By: Abdallah Schleifer The devastating struggle underway in Gaza seems to have overshadowed, in media coverage, the battles being fought in Libya in both Tripoli and Benghazi – battles which already have had ramifications for Egypt measured in blood. A
An urgent open letter to Sisi, you can save Palestinian lives!
By: Abdallah Schleifer Egypt can and must open the border crossing point with Gaza to provide temporary refugee relief while guaranteeing Egypt’s own security from Gaza and Sinai based terrorists. The Palestinians in Gaza are in a dire situation. Hamas
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