MIDDLE EAST: Thousands Return to Egypt's Tahrir Square
Thousands of Egyptian protesters turned out in Tahrir Square (NYT)--the locus of the popular revolution that toppled former president Hosni Mubarak in February--to call for the removal of military council leader Mohammed Hussein Tantawi, saying the demands of the revolution had not been met. FRACASO CONFESADO. ¿QUÉ DIRÁN LOS VECINOS?
CFR President Richard N. Haass writes in the Financial Times that the" Arab Spring" has started to produce a region that is less tolerant, less prosperous, and less stable than what existed--and outsiders can't do much to change the course of events.
Palestinian Authority: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he would pursue a bid for Palestinian statehood (al-Jazeera) at the UN General Assembly this September, after the so-called Middle East Quartet, hosted by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, failed to reach an agreement on restarting Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations.
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