Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Can a Cairo conference launch regional peace talks?

BEN CASPIT for Al-Monitor While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi are discussing a Cairo regional conference, experts are presenting a security plan, based on the one elaborated by Gen. John Allen.

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