“Ambassador, with respect,” he began. “We’re not here to discuss the Palestinians. We’re here to talk about the Egyptian people. We want to focus these senators on our needs in this next period of our history.” Alas, that period of Egyptian history will be a chronicle of disappointments, an uprising against authoritarianism and injustice that opened a path to power for an Islamist party, the Muslim Brotherhood, which wouldn’t manage the transition to secular politics and brought disorder, intolerance, and another upheaval, which ended with a popularly supported military coup and a return of
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