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Russia has many reasons to defend Syria’s regime
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January 11, 2012 01:25 AM
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Russian policy on Syria might seem planned and coherent, but a closer look shows that Moscow has no end-game for Syria’s unrest, and is improvising its stances as events unfold. Moscow has a clear interest in the survival of the regime of President Bashar Assad, a major importer of Russian...
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An Iranian doctrine we can do without
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June 06, 2008 12:00 AM
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When Hizbullah's secretary general, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, declared last week that he did not favor the creation of an Islamic state in Lebanon, because Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei didn't approve of such a scheme, he provoked more fears than assurances among Lebanese. Nor did it...
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Nothing new in Obama's amoral advice
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April 11, 2008 12:00 AM
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If the Democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama, is seeking a messy status quo in Iraq, then that exit strategy for the United States is certainly within reach. Addressing the US ambassador in Iraq, Ryan Crocker, and the commander there, General David Petraeus, during a hearing before the...
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Wake up Arabs, Obama may be a menace
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February 27, 2008 12:00 AM
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A widespread impression increasingly evident in the Middle East is that the election of the Democratic candidate Barack Obama in the American presidential election will serve the Arabs' best interests. This is false. Any US president will have to tackle three main issues in the region. According...
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The reinvention of Lebanese Shiite history
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January 21, 2008 12:00 AM
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First person by Hussain Abdul-Hussain Hizbullah may be undermining the Lebanese state. It may even be working in the interests of Syria and Iran. However, among its defects, the most potentially damaging is that Hizbullah threatens the Lebanese Shiite community by seeking to impose its exclusivist...
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The price of being suckers for Syria
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December 11, 2007 12:00 AM
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The question as to whether Damascus can be made to break its alliance with Iran and alter its ways, as Western and Arab governments have sought of late, has confounded all those answering in the affirmative. When Lebanon's March 14 coalition recently approved the candidacy for president of army...
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Feltman insists absolute-majority vote will not lead to civil war
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November 29, 2007 12:00 AM
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WASHINGTON: While world delegates gathered in Annapolis, Maryland, to discuss Middle East peace, US Ambassador to Lebanon Jeffrey Feltman was contesting claims that election of a new Lebanese president with absolute parliamentary majority would lead to civil war. "The [Fouad] Siniora government...
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US congressman calls for concrete action on Lebanon
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November 10, 2007 12:00 AM
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WASHINGTON: "We're playing defensive ... you cannot score if we're playing defensive. Something should be done," said Congressman Gary Ackerman (Dem-NY), chairman of Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia, during a hearing session on the hill Thursday held in the presence of Deputy...
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US-based aides to Maliki advocate 'staying the course'
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August 04, 2007 12:00 AM
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WASHINGTON: There is only one plan for America in Iraq, or so believe US-based aides to Iraqi Premier Nuri Maliki. The US, according to Maliki's sources, has little or no options but to "stay the course" until security is stable enough in the country. Should the US exit Iraq now, an insurmountable...
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Azour muses on what might have been
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April 18, 2007 12:00 AM
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WASHINGTON: The Lebanese economy is resilient and the government is determined to pursue its reform program, Finance Minister Jihad Azour said in a lecture at Johns Hopkins University in the United States on Monday. Azour said that despite the nation's political instability following the...
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Chouf MP takes Lebanon's concerns to Washington
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March 08, 2006 12:00 AM
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Analysis WASHINGTON: Sources here heartily welcomed the visit of March 14 Forces leader, Chouf MP Walid Jumblatt. Unlike Washington's usual line in friends among the different Arab groups, whose influence often relies on American funds and political support, Jumblatt is a leader in his own right...
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Jumblatt 'seeks U.S. help' to liberate Lebanon from Syria
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March 07, 2006 12:00 AM
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WASHINGTON: One of Lebanon's leading politicians, March 14 Forces MP Walid Jumblatt said Monday that he had been in the U.S. "asking for help" to liberate Lebanon from the Syrian regime, "which killed Kamal Jumblatt." Jumblatt's comments came during a panel discussion at the Saban Center in...
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Hariri aims to extricate Lebanon from regional conflict
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January 27, 2006 12:00 AM
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WASHINGTON: MP Saad Hariri, head of the Future parliamentary bloc, is set to seek American assistance during his visit here in an attempt to distance Lebanon from the continuing conflict between the West on one side and Iran and Syria on the other. Like his late father before him, Hariri is...
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Israelis maintain stance in Shebaa dispute
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August 15, 2005 12:00 AM
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WASHINGTON: Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Dany Ayalon reiterated his government's position on the Shebaa Farms dispute, saying that the land is Syrian and that Hizbullah exploits it for its anti-Israeli militant agenda. "I don't have information about [U.S. Secretary of State Rice's] visit to...
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Iraqi women mobilize against imposition of Islamic law
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August 06, 2005 12:00 AM
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WASHINGTON: With less than two weeks to the announcement of the Iraqi constitution draft, women activists brought their battle to Washington in a bid to preserve their rights, perceived to be under threat by conservative groups wanting to impose Islamic Sharia as the constitution's sole source....
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