Showdown in Egypt

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The Coming Showdown with Iran

A showdown also looms over tax policy.

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If Iran and Syria then decide to back Hezbollah, a direct Israeli Iranian showdown could follow.

Hezbollah has drawn Lebanon into the Syrian conflict, setting up a showdown between Shia and Sunni at home.

So it is likely that next year will see a showdown between the police and the Yamaguchi Gumi.

They try to depict this as a showdown between the Islamist AKP and the country s democracy loving secularists.

Like North Korea, the Iranian government will not shy from a showdown over its nuclear program. Why should it?

What was supposed to be a major international effort at mediation is deteriorating into an apocalyptic Israeli Iranian showdown.

Facing the Israelis together is the only way that the rival Palestinian groups will postpone their own bloody showdown.

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

And, in any coming showdown, we must hope that all leaders will refuse to use innocent people s lives as bargaining chips.

And only that outcome can secure the international goodwill that both Israel and the US will need for a showdown with Iran.

Israel s leaders believe that the day of reckoning with Hamas will come only when the conditions for a major military showdown are riper.

The legal investigations now underway do not mark a showdown between Islamists and secularists, nor are they a campaign to discredit Turkey s generals.

In spite of this, Abdullah may not be able to shape the future, because he seems doomed to lose any showdown with Naif s forces.

They believe that as in the past the fiscal showdown will end with a midnight compromise that avoids both default and a government shutdown.

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.

Israel conducted the recent showdown with Hamas in a regional context that has changed dramatically since its last incursion into Gaza, Operation Cast Lead in 2008.

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.

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.

Ahead of the Saturday showdown, rival fans have been gearing up offline, as well as in heated online exchanges, escalating into a bitter cyber war of intimidation.

But uncoordinated action could result in a vicious cycle of retaliation, turning the currency war into a full blown trade showdown, with serious consequences for all parties involved.

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.

Though determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, even if doing so requires military action, the US weighs the consequences of a military showdown in very different terms.

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.

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.

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.

Moreover, prosecutors efforts to uncover the truth are not a campaign to discredit the Turkish army, as some allege nor has the exposure of Sledgehammer led to an emerging showdown between secularists and Islamists.

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.

On June 28, 2006, Tunney won the fifth table of Bravo's Celebrity Poker Showdown s eighth season, finishing ahead of Christopher Meloni, Macy Gray, Joy Behar, and Andy Dick, moving on to the final cut.

This was the beating heart of Arabism as Mansfeld put it, for Muslims, Christians and Jews it is the land where they believe the final showdown between good and evil will begin, where Jesus will return.

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.

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.

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.

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.