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Chapter 5
Barack Obama and the New Mideast
the White House, June 4, 2010 (photo by pete souza/the white house)
“Look, Mubarak has been an ally of ours in a number of things
and he’s been very responsible on, relative to geopolitical interests
in the region: Middle East peace efforts, the actions Egypt has
taken relative to normalizing the relationship with Israel.
And I think that it would be—I would not refer to him as a
dictator.”
— Vice President Joe Biden on PBS’s NewsHour, Jan. 27
“The Egyptian people have made it clear that there is no going
back to the way things were: Egypt has changed, and its future is
in the hands of the people.”
— President Barack Obama, Feb. 10
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