Showdown in Egypt

The Coming Showdown with Iran

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Mikey Garcia and Vasyl Lomachenko meet for the first time, discuss a possible showdown

It was Derry's biggest win of the campaign and perfect preparation for the showdown with Cork.

Draft resolution A 59 L.68 represents an effort in good faith to avoid such an all or nothing showdown.

As the pair posed for photos, Lomachenko manager Egis Klimas noted that a potential showdown between the fighters would be perfect sizing.

The upcoming legislative elections were widely seen as a turning point and it became apparent to all that the parties were preparing for a final showdown.

So it is likely that next year will see a showdown between the police and the Yamaguchi Gumi. The Sumo gambling scandal, indeed, may be a prelude to it.

Many political figures emphasized their worry that Lebanon would be caught in a possible showdown between the Syrian Arab Republic and the international community, with possibly devastating consequences for Lebanese peace and security.

Mao s shrewd timing ensured India s isolation from sources of international support. Throughout the invasion, the international spotlight was on the potential US Soviet nuclear showdown, not on the bloody war raging in the Himalayan foothills.

Furthermore, waves of Syrian refugees are threatening the sustainability of the Jordanian monarchy, already roiled by profound internal cleavages. Hezbollah has drawn Lebanon into the Syrian conflict, setting up a showdown between Shia and Sunni at home.

Lebanese politicians from different backgrounds expressed to the Mission their fear that Lebanon could be caught in a possible showdown between the Syrian Arab Republic and the international community, with devastating consequences for Lebanese peace and security.

So far, investors have been complacent about the risks posed by the looming budget fight. They believe that as in the past the fiscal showdown will end with a midnight compromise that avoids both default and a government shutdown.

Thus, the Chinese can easily nuclearize a crisis with the US or anyone else. They do not have to detonate a nuclear weapon, but only alert adversaries to the dramatic increase in the political stakes and dangers of a showdown.

Ironically, the most likely way to avoid large scale confrontation between Fatah and Hamas is through an Israeli incursion into Gaza. Facing the Israelis together is the only way that the rival Palestinian groups will postpone their own bloody showdown.

Terrorist groups, both old and newly created, may receive fresh funding and volunteers. A direct military showdown in the Gulf and the Straits of Hormuz, through which about 40 of the world s traded oil is shipped, cannot be ruled out.

ISTANBUL The ongoing showdown in Egypt between the country s Islamists and its military rulers is a clear reminder of how difficult democratic transitions in the Arab world are likely to be. Obviously, failure to reach a power sharing agreement will prolong political instability.

Meanwhile, state and local government budgets are improving, and the federal budget is on track to subtract only about 0.5 from GDP in 2014, compared to 1.75 in 2013. In a Congressional election year, another destabilizing showdown over the federal debt limit is unlikely.

The Lebanese front may ignite if Hezbollah seeks to avenge Mughniyah s death, or simply as a result of a knee jerk reaction to a provocation, as in 2006. If Iran and Syria then decide to back Hezbollah, a direct Israeli Iranian showdown could follow.

PARIS After months of wrangling, the showdown between Greece and its European creditors has come down to a standoff over pensions and taxes. Greece is refusing to acquiesce to demands by its creditors that it cut payments to the elderly and raise the value added tax on their medicine and electricity.

China appeals to and urges all Member States to proceed from the consideration of maintaining the unity and long term interests of the United Nations and to make every effort to avoid an unfortunate situation in which a showdown on Security Council enlargement is forced upon Member States while conditions are net yet ripe.

PARIS In the showdown with Russia over Ukraine, the weaknesses and divisions in European policy have been as encouraging for Russian President Vladimir Putin as America s hesitant approach to Syria was. If Europe is to act responsibly, three key concepts should define its policy toward Russia firmness, clarity, and a willingness to find an acceptable compromise.

In fact, the Middle East buffeted by the Iraq War, the Arab Spring, and the sectarian showdown in Syria is unsure where to go next liberal democracy and the rule of law, or Islamist rule? Yet, for the Sunni world, Iraq is the mistake that not only must not be repeated, but also must be reversed.

And now the crisis has reached the southern shore of the Mediterranean, in the form of a revolution in Tunisia and a political showdown in Lebanon that has once again brought the country to the verge of war and disaster. With the EU s Mediterranean member states simultaneously faltering, great changes are afoot in Europe s southern neighborhood.

Hezbollah s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, for the first time explicitly warned the Israelis that a new round of conflict would no longer be confined to an Israeli Lebanese showdown, but would involve the entire regional axis of confrontation Syria, Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas. This would also be the case if Israel unleashed its Air Force against Iran s nuclear installations.

Since the prolonged showdown over the budget began earlier this year, the stock market has lost about 20 of its value (roughly 10 trillion). In effect, the Tea Party is working hard to reduce publicly funded social benefits including pensions and Medicare even as its methods dramatically reduce the value of private wealth now and in the future.

When big US banks are in trouble or Americans are having another debilitating political fight over their public finances, global investors scramble into US Treasuries. Last year s congressional showdown over the federal debt ceiling may have cost the US its AAA sovereign rating with Standard Poor s, but the federal government s borrowing costs are actually lower now than they were then.

In a showdown over the composition of the cabinet just before his inauguration on June 1, the FMLN old guard won, threatening to take the conflict to the streets. The Cubans, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans will not cut Funes any slack, either, believing that history is on their side, and that now is the time to force every issue in sight.

Only a generous, bold peace initiative that would genuinely revive the two state solution, accompanied by a freeze on construction and enlargement of West Bank settlements, would help to recover the good will of the Palestinians and their brethren throughout the Arab world. And only that outcome can secure the international goodwill that both Israel and the US will need for a showdown with Iran.

Both Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak thus regard an attack on Iran as a major strategic move aimed at the broader Middle East, which implies that they would not discount a military campaign that goes well beyond surgical air strikes. Indeed, they probably contemplate land incursions into Iran, and possibly a decisive 160 and, from their perspective, long overdue showdown with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Of course, the West particularly the US bears its share of responsibility for the failure to find a diplomatic solution to the current showdown with Russia. Before a lasting peace can be achieved, the US will need to reflect on the mistakes that characterized its post Cold War period of hegemony, when its unilateral military adventures and neo imperial ambitions left it overstretched, highly indebted, and locked in perpetual war.

Both Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak thus regard an attack on Iran as a major strategic move aimed at the broader Middle East, which implies that they would not discount a military campaign that goes well beyond surgical air strikes. Indeed, they probably contemplate land incursions into Iran, and possibly a decisive and, from their perspective, long overdue showdown with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

If the top leadership in Teheran has realized that it makes a great deal more sense, and is more in keeping with Iran s interests, to consolidate the successes of its foreign policy in the last few years, and to strengthen the regime, rather than risk everything in a military showdown with unforeseeable consequences, then there is a real chance for a diplomatic solution. If not, the region will be plunged into a hot confrontation.

Europe s 500 million citizens may not be surprised by what is playing out in the corridors of power, but they ought to find it very disturbing. The issue is not only what could be lost in the race to the bottom in which many EU national governments are now engaging, but also the manipulative anti EU sentiment coming from many quarters of the European press, which appears intent on pushing various national leaders into another budget showdown.