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The ascent of the little dictator
12 hours ago ago from Jewish Issues Watchdog
From Commentary Magazine, 22/12/09: Assad Returns as the Strong Horse , by Michael J. Totten: Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri just spent two days with Syrian strongman Bashar Assad in Damascus, and you’d think from reading the wire reports that Lebanon and Syria had re-established normal relations after a rough patch. That’s how it’s being reported, but it’s nonsense. Hariri went to Damascus with Hizbullah's bayonet in his back. ...
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1 hour, 19 minutes ago ago from Palestine Think Tank
WRITTEN BY BRENDA HEARD On 14 December 2009 Lebanese President Michel Suleiman met with US President Barack Obama in Washington. The photo above gives an idea of the underlying tension. You can read the full transcript of their public meeting here and watch it on video here . Obama gets the conversation rolling with the enigmatic statement that “We both agree that the issues of Middle East peace are linked to the issues ...
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22 hours ago ago from Roberto Scaruffi
Prepared for the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs View this page at www.dailyalert.org Subscribe Via Smartphone DAILY ALERT Friday, December 25, 2009 Daily Alert Needs Your Support In-Depth Issues: Israel Seeks to Restore Deterrence - Isabel Kershner ( New York Times ) Given the ...
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4 hours ago ago from RubinReports
By Barry Rubin The politics of the Arabic-speaking world are going to face some serious challenges during 2010. Probably none of them, however, will have anything to do with the Arab-Israeli issue, despite the overwhelming attention and exaggerated importance usually given to that question by outside observers. Unquestionably, the leading problem will be dealing with an increasingly powerful Iran and its sidekick Syria which aren’t being ...
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9 hours ago ago from Doc's Talk
Tariq Alhomayed Ashraq Alawsat The political scene in our region looks like this: a hunter shot a bullet towards a falcon perched on a tree but to his surprise a huge bear came down instead! When Saudi diplomacy began to take action specifically towards Arab reconciliation and under the banner of organizing the Arab structure, after which we saw Saudi King Abdullah in Syria and then Syrian President Bashar al Assad in Riyadh and then al ...
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BBC News - Gaza still on a knife-edge, one year on from the war
10 hours ago ago from BBC
The war caused vast damage in Gaza, very little of which has been repaired By Jeremy Bowen Middle East editor, BBC News A year after the war in Gaza, the guns are relatively quiet, most of the time. A de facto ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has held. But the conflict is still there, and if anything it is keener. Until its fundamentals are tackled - and there's no sign of that happening - another big ...
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