InfoAnda - Analysis: Egypt proves peace role can survive Arab Spring |

Pakistanis angry over detentions in Times Sq. case
Monday, May 24, 2010
ISLAMABAD – Relatives of three men detained by Pakistan for alleged links to the suspect in the attempted Times Square bombing say the men are innocent.
They

Taiwan denies boycotting Australian film festival
Thursday, August 6, 2009

AFP - Thursday, August 6TAIPEI (AFP) - - Taiwan's Beijing-friendly government on Wednesday denied boycotting an Australian film festival amid a row over the e

Merkel's support dips, regional ally resigns International
Thursday, September 3, 2009

By Sarah Marsh and Noah Barkin

BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel suffered a double blow on Thursday as a senior party ally in east German

Minister seeks closure of anti-Berlusconi websites
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
ROME (AFP) - – The Italian government moved Tuesday to close down Internet sites encouraging further violence against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who

Asian markets mixed after Wall Street rally
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

By ELAINE KURTENBACH,AP Business Writer AP - Wednesday, March 18SHANGHAI - Asia's stock market rally seemed to be running out of steam Wednesday, despite an

Oil Rig Explodes Off Louisiana Coast; 1 Worker Injured | 3 September 2010
"Skin Trade," A Fur Trade Documentary, Is Out On DVD | 22 September 2010
Loser rejects results in Bangladesh's election | 31 December 2008

Israel sends army reservists into Gaza battle | International | | 12 January 2009

Forum Views () Forum Replies ()

Read more with google mobile : Analysis: Egypt proves peace role can survive Arab Spring |

Edition: U.S. Arabic Argentina Brazil Canada China France Germany India Italy Japan Latin America Mexico Russia Spain United Kingdom Home Business Business Home Economy Technology Media Small Business Legal Deals Earnings Social Pulse Business Video The Freeland File Aerospace & Defense Investing Simplified Markets Markets Home U.S. Markets European Markets Asian Markets Global Market Data Indices M&A Stocks Bonds Currencies Commodities Futures Funds peHUB Dividends World World Home U.S. Brazil China Euro Zone Japan Africa Mexico Russia India Insight World Video Reuters Investigates Decoder Politics Politics Home Supreme Court Politics Video Tech Technology Home MediaFile Science Tech Video Tech Tonic Social Pulse Opinion Opinion Home Chrystia Freeland John Lloyd Felix Salmon Jack Shafer David Rohde Nader Mousavizadeh Lucy P. Marcus Nicholas Wapshott Bethany McLean Anatole Kaletsky Zachary Karabell Edward Hadas Hugo Dixon Ian Bremmer Lawrence Summers Susan Glasser The Great Debate Steven Brill Reihan Salam Frederick Kempe Christopher Papagianis Mark Leonard Breakingviews Equities Credit Private Equity M&A Macro & Markets Politics Breakingviews Video Money Money Home Tax Break Lipper Awards 2012 Global Investing MuniLand Unstructured Finance Linda Stern Mark Miller John Wasik James Saft Analyst Research Alerts Watchlist Portfolio Stock Screener Fund Screener Personal Finance Video Money Clip Investing 201 Life Health Sports Arts Faithworld Business Traveler Entertainment Oddly Enough Lifestyle Video Pictures Pictures Home Reuters Photographers Full Focus Video Reuters TV Reuters News Article Comments (1) Full Focus Editor's Choice Our best photos from the last 24 hours. Slideshow Download our Wider Image iPad app Images of October Follow Reuters Facebook Twitter RSS YouTube Read Twinkies bakers say they'd rather lose jobs than take pay cuts 2:55am EST China angers neighbors with sea claims on new passports 4:58am EST 4D scans show fetuses yawn in the womb | 21 Nov 2012 Samsung wins U.S. court order to access Apple-HTC deal details 1:47am EST Massive pileup shuts down Texas interstate 12:57pm EST Discussed 132 Egypt PM to visit Gaza in support of Hamas against Israel 108 Gaza truce pressure builds, Cairo in focus 95 Israel authorizes more reservists after rockets target cities Pictures Reuters Photojournalism Our day's top images, in-depth photo essays and offbeat slices of life. See the best of Reuters photography. See more Gaza conflict Our latest pictures from inside Israel and Gaza. Slideshow Battle for Syria Rare scenes from the fighting inside Syria. Slideshow Sponsored Links Analysis: Egypt proves peace role can survive Arab Spring Tweet Share this Email Print Related News WRAPUP 9-Egyptian-brokered Hamas-Israel ceasefire takes hold Wed, Nov 21 2012 WRAPUP 5-Gaza shakes, bus explodes in Tel Aviv as Clinton seeks truce Wed, Nov 21 2012 Clinton meets Netanyahu to seek Gaza truce Tue, Nov 20 2012 WRAPUP 2-Gaza truce pressure builds, Cairo in focus Tue, Nov 20 2012 Israel says prefers diplomacy but ready to invade Gaza Mon, Nov 19 2012 Analysis & Opinion After the ceasefire New world, same old Israel Related Topics World » Egypt » Middle East Turmoil » Gaza conflict Images from inside both the Gaza Strip and Israel. Slideshow Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi (R), Egypt's Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (C) meet at the presidential palace in Cairo November 21, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Egyptian Presidency/Handout By Edmund Blair CAIRO | Thu Nov 22, 2012 1:58pm EST CAIRO (Reuters) - Mediating the Gaza truce was a bravura diplomatic performance by Egypt's new President Mohamed Mursi, jacking up his personal stature and reassuring an anxious Washington that the architecture of Middle East peace can survive the Arab Spring. For nearly two years, Washington has fretted over what would happen in a major showdown between Israel and the Palestinians without the Arab autocrats that kept stability for decades, above all Egypt's Hosni Mubarak who presented himself as the personal guarantor of its 1979 peace with Israel. Mubarak was toppled by a popular revolt last year, and his successor Mursi hails from the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group whose rise Washington has feared for decades. But by keeping the trust of Israel and the United States, and using his own Muslim Brotherhood background to develop a rapport with Gaza's ruling Hamas militants, Mursi has passed the test of his first Israel-Palestine crisis with flying colors. "Everyone is pointing to Mursi as a winner in this and as a crucial player," said Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Doha Center. "He comes out of this with more political capital on the regional and international front." Praise from Washington has come fast and thick. "I want to thank President Mursi for his personal leadership to de-escalate the situation in Gaza and end the violence," said U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who spent Wednesday at Mursi's palace being briefed on the negotiations by his staff. The achievement is especially extraordinary for a 61-year-old engineer once mocked as the "spare tyre" because he was selected as the Brotherhood's presidential candidate only after its first choice was barred from standing by a court. The truce, which ended a week of Israeli bombing of Gaza and Hamas rocket attacks on Israel, allows Mursi to put his stamp on Palestinian-Israeli policy still largely run by the intelligence and security services that were Mubarak's personal fiefs. Mursi has been steadily expanding his authority over the Arab world's biggest nation since he defeated an army-backed candidate five months ago. A quietly sure-footed performance on the world stage regained for Egypt some of the influence many felt was lost as Mubarak, now 83, aged in office. He still has a huge in-tray: there is no permanent constitution, he has no parliament, the economy is on the ropes and many in the security establishment remain suspicious of their new Islamist leader. During the crisis, some Egyptians complained he was not focused on problems at home. As bombs fell in Gaza, a train ploughed into a school bus killing 51 people, most of them children, and the government reached an initial deal for a $4.8 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund linked to unpopular reforms. But the success in negotiating the Gaza truce makes some of those problems recede for now, giving him time and authority to tackle other problems. POLITICAL CAPITAL Winning over a sceptical Washington has been a hard slog. The United States, which gives Egypt's military $1.3 billion a year, opened formal channels to the Muslim Brotherhood only in mid-2011, several months after Mubarak's overthrow. During his election campaign, President Barack Obama described Egypt as neither a friend nor an enemy of Egypt, remarks that one diplomat said were taken in Cairo as a surprising snub. But throughout the days of the Gaza crisis, Mursi was in regular telephone contact with Obama. "Whatever the relationship was a week ago, it's clearly better now," said Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East programme at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank in Washington. On Wednesday Clinton spent much of the day behind the marble walls of Mursi's presidential palace, being updated by officials mostly picked out from ranks of the Brotherhood, who relayed details from the headquarters of the intelligence service hosting the Palestinian delegation to the deal talks. Mursi aides say the president has been seeking a date to meet Obama and the Gaza deal might bring that forward. He and Obama will not see eye to eye on everything: the Brotherhood still describes Israel as a racist and expansionist state. Mursi's trick is to show that holding those views does not necessarily mean repudiating the 1979 Egypt-Israel treaty, or disavowing a relationship with the United States, particularly important at a time when the economy is so weak. A SHIFT BUT NOT AWAY "It is important to have a strong relationship with the United States, but such a relationship will be different than in Mubarak's time when Egypt used to be a follower. Now it is a partnership based on mutual interests," said Murad Mohamed Ali, a leader in the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party and one of the spokesmen for Mursi's presidential campaign. It is a theme repeated by Mursi aides, who long before the crisis spoke of rebalancing Egyptian policy while keeping U.S. ties solid. "A shift does not mean a shift away," said one. The approach reflects a pragmatic streak that runs through the Brotherhood and has been soaked up by Mursi, who spent several years studying and teaching in California. The Gaza deal will help Mursi gain more authority over the intelligence service, still packed with Mubarak-era officials many of whom have difficulty disguising their disdain for the their new Islamist leader. Though Mursi's role was recognised by negotiators as playing an important role in the deal, state media headlined the deal as a success for the veterans in the intelligence service. "The current leadership is civilian and lacks the information or security sense to give Palestinians advice on what is really going on," said one intelligence source close to the Gaza talks who declined to be named. Mursi offered "warm religious rhetoric" to Hamas instead, he said dismissively. But another security source close to the negotiations acknowledged that Mursi's rapport with Hamas had played an important role. Speaking as the talks were in the final hours, he said: "I could see Hamas was more comfortable with us after President Mursi came (to power) and trusts Egypt and our suggestions more." The unfinished business of winning control over the security establishment remains a major task for the president, who weeks into office sacked the intelligence chief after 16 Egyptian border guards were killed, and then swiftly pushed aside the top generals in the army. "If Mursi keeps on coming up with victories like this (in Gaza) he will be able to stake a greater claim on the foreign policy apparatus," said Hamid of the Brookings Institute. "It is still going to be a slow process. But this is going to help shift the balance at least a little bit." (Additional reporting by Yasmine Saleh and Marwa Awad in Cairo and Arshad Mohammed in Washington; writing by Edmund Blair; editing by Peter Graff) World Egypt Middle East Turmoil Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (1) Brazilian1 wrote: Edition: U.S. Arabic Argentina Brazil Canada China France Germany India Italy Japan Latin America Mexico Russia Spain United Kingdom Back to top Reuters.com Business Markets World Politics Technology Opinion Money Pictures Videos Site Index Legal Bankruptcy Law California Legal New York Legal Securities Law Support & Contact Support Corrections Connect with Reuters Twitter Facebook LinkedIn RSS Podcast Newsletters Mobile About Privacy Policy Terms of Use AdChoices Copyright Our Flagship financial information platform incorporating Reuters Insider An ultra-low latency infrastructure for electronic trading and data distribution A connected approach to governance, risk and compliance Our next generation legal research platform Our global tax workstation Thomsonreuters.com About Thomson Reuters Investor Relations Careers Contact Us Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, world news, business news, technology news, headline news, small business news, news alerts, personal finance, stock market, and mutual funds information available on Reuters.com, video, mobile, and interactive television platforms. Thomson Reuters journalists are subject to an Editorial Handbook which requires fair presentation and disclosure of relevant interests. NYSE and AMEX quotes delayed by at least 20 minutes. Nasdaq delayed by at least 15 minutes. For a complete list of exchanges and delays, please click here.

Other News on Friday, 23 November 2012
Mursi draws fire with new Egypt decree |
Mexican president wants to change his country's name ... to Mexico |
Two killed in clash at Harmony Gold South Africa mine |
Analysis: Egypt proves peace role can survive Arab Spring |
Britain bans Nigerian Islamist group accused of murder |
Trial of Turkish coup general adjourned till January |
Haiti's rising food insecurity risks social tension, says FAO |
Ice lady gets life sentence for double murder |
Russian court throws out Madonna anti-gay compensation claim |
Gaza ceasefire holds but mistrust runs deep |
Afghanistan truck bomb kills two, foreign troops among 70 wounded |
Mursi draws fire with new Egypt decree |
Pakistan ID cards remove ghost voters, target poor for aid |
Gunman kill 7 in Guatemala in attempted hit on drug dealer |
Egypt president cancels state visit to Pakistan |
Talks to defuse Iraq army-Kurdish standoff make little headway |
China sacks official after sex-tape shots appear online |
Sarkozy dodges official inquiry in election funding scandal |
Sony at greater risk than Panasonic in electronics downturn: Fitch |
Vampires, 007 may set record Thanksgiving sales |
Congo rebels push on after repelling counter-attack |
More than 40,000 killed since start of Syria conflict: monitor |
Egypt's Mursi called pharaoh, violent protests erupt |
Pakistan cuts phones in hope of stopping attacks on Shi'ites |
Greek police clash with migrants at detention centre |
Sarkozy judge mistook hostage for billionaire backer: lawyer |
South Sudan accuses Sudan of bombing and of massing troops |
Trial of Ukraine's sick Tymoshenko delayed again |
Fighting Sandy debris-removal crooks: There's an app for that |
Autonomy founder says HP allegations don't add up |
Software firm SAP mulls Shanghai listing |
Russian female punk rock band protester alone in cell after inmate tension |
Rejected Beatles audition tape appears at auction |
Greece at new risk of being pushed off euro
Bodies of missing Tenn. mom, Jo Ann Bain, and daughter found
Female Breasts Are Bigger Than Ever
AMD Trinity Accelerated Processing Units Now in Volume Production
The Avengers (2012 film), made the second biggest opening- and single-day gross of all-time
AMD to Start Production of piledriver
Ivy Bridge Quad-Core, Four-Thread Desktop CPUs
Islamists Protest Lady Gaga's Concert in Indonesia
Japan Successfully Broadcasts an 8K Signal Over the Air
ECB boosts loans to 1 trillion Euro to stop credit crunch
Egypt : Mohammed Morsi won with 52 percent
What do you call 100,000 Frenchmen with their hands up
AMD Launches AMD Embedded R-Series APU Platform
Fed Should not Ignore Emerging Market Crisis
Fed casts shadow over India, emerging markets
Why are Chinese tourists so rude? A few insights

USD EUR - 1 year graph		BlogMeter 1.01