{"id":28744,"date":"2019-01-11T19:23:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T19:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28744"},"modified":"2019-01-11T19:23:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T19:23:03","slug":"pompeos-mideast-reset-new-beginning-or-old-cliche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28744","title":{"rendered":"Pompeo&#8217;s Mideast reset: New beginning or old clich\u00e9?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Cairo (CNN)<\/cite>&#8220;Yes, we can!&#8221; an Egyptian friend bellowed over the phone to me after hearing Barack Obama&#8217;s June 2009 speech in Cairo.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">I was here, in the Egyptian capital, to cover that speech. Almost ten years later I returned to cover another &#8220;keynote&#8221; speech by an American official &#8212; this time, by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In the intervening ten years, Egypt has come full circle. In 2011, a popular revolt ended the nearly 30-year-old sclerotic regime of Hosni Mubarak, followed by the country&#8217;s first and only democratic presidential election in Egypt&#8217;s 5000-year history. Then, a military coup and a bloody crackdown ensued. As many old friends and human rights organizations attest, the Egyptian state is far more oppressive than it was ten years ago.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cairo (CNN)&#8221;Yes, we can!&#8221; an Egyptian friend bellowed over the phone to me after hearing Barack Obama&#8217;s June 2009 speech in Cairo.I was here, in the Egyptian capital, to cover that speech. Almost ten years later I returned to cover another &#8220;keynote&#8221; speech by an American official &#8212; this time, by US Secretary of State&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}