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Lost in semantics
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| March 08, 2014 12:12 AM |
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As Friday’s ninth policy statement meeting drew to a close, without conclusion, the Lebanese were left wondering what difference the drafting of such a document will make either way.
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Time to toe the line
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| March 07, 2014 12:09 AM |
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Relations among members of the Gulf Cooperation Council have experienced tension in the past over a range of items, but the priority of keeping issues out of the media spotlight often worked to maintain a calm public face on things.
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An insult to Algerians
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| March 06, 2014 12:11 AM |
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A common definition of wisdom is having good judgment, and the recent news from Algeria provides a stark example of what the opposite of wisdom entails.
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Blind to the big picture
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| March 05, 2014 12:08 AM |
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Stopping short of labeling it a terrorist organization, an Egyptian court banned Hamas Tuesday, just the latest evidence that the party’s priorities are warped and it has failed the Palestinian people.
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Little left to be lost
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| March 04, 2014 12:12 AM |
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As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due to arrive in the U.S. to meet with President Barack Obama Monday, a report from the Israeli government announced that settlement construction in the West Bank had doubled in 2013, perfectly summarizing how fruitless the entire peace process is as long as the status quo continues.
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Formulaic disputes
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| March 03, 2014 12:09 AM |
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A verbal spat between President Michel Sleiman and Hezbollah emerged over the weekend, although the development came as no surprise to anyone who has been following the efforts to draft the new Cabinet’s policy statement.
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Russia’s war games
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| March 01, 2014 12:29 AM |
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While Yanukovich insisted Friday that he is still the president of Ukraine, the facts point otherwise, and the installation of a Western-backed interim government in Kiev poses a direct challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his position on the global stage.
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Syria in stalemate
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| February 28, 2014 12:15 AM |
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The Geneva II peace talks, which generated a huge amount of media coverage this year, have experienced a steady drop off the radar ever since the last session, when U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi frankly labeled them a failure.
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A painful lesson
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| February 27, 2014 12:09 AM |
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The Israeli airstrike on the Lebanese-Syrian border this week has highlighted Hezbollah’s inability to generate a coherent policy on the war in Syria aside from actions that provide excuses for acts of violence.
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Rehabilitate Roumieh
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| February 26, 2014 12:21 AM |
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Lebanon’s Roumieh prison has become a disaster waiting to happen, and no amount of visits by senior officials to the facility can hide the fact that the solution lies in actions, and not speeches.
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Will Ukraine affect Syria?
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| February 25, 2014 12:12 AM |
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The weekend’s dramatic events in Ukraine have been hailed as a turning point, but the coming days and weeks will be just as important in defining whether the Maidan Square uprising is remembered as the beginning of something better, or something worse.
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A tale of two revolts
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| February 24, 2014 12:22 AM |
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The tumultuous political developments in Ukraine have offered up several salient lessons for people in this part of the world.
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Time is ticking
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| February 22, 2014 12:18 AM |
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The newly formed Cabinet, whose creation last weekend was a welcome development for the country, must be careful not to treat its term as temporary, even if that’s what it ends up being.
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A game of nations
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| February 21, 2014 12:12 AM |
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With dozens dead in the streets of Kiev and the violence showing no signs of abating, the Cold War hangover and inadequate response from the U.S., already evidenced in Syria, are on show yet again.
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Hope amid despair
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| February 20, 2014 12:11 AM |
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In the latest spillover incident from the war in Syria, at least eight people were killed in Wednesday’s twin bombings in Beirut’s southern neighborhood of Bir Hasan.
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