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This report was just sent to me by a young human rights activist in Syria. It speaks for itself. Trial of Eight Political Prisoners of the Syrian Youth Movement PostponedThey are Held Incommunicado and Face the Risk of Physical and Psychological Torture Eight Syrian young men who were arrest between January and March 2006 for alleged [...]
Three interesting bits of news today: First, the Brammertz Report – news agencies that have perused the report are saying it is a bust, again. The same old reheated beans with a dash of salt and pepper. The operative line in the Reuters article was ” Brammertz’s latest report was mainly technical and did not offer [...]
SPIEGEL ONLINE – September 24, 2006, 12:01 PM (Thanks to T_desco) URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,438804,00.html SPIEGEL Interview with Syrian President Bashar Assad “America Must Listen” The Middle East, says Syrian President Bashar Assad, 40, seems to be teetering on the brink of chaos. He spoke with SPIEGEL about his country’s difficult relationship with the United States, the pressure to go to war, [...]
Ali Sadraddin Bayanouni, the leader of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, has been improving his answers to the Alawi Question. Does Bayanouni’s answer provide hope that Syria will find a way out of its sectarian dead end? Or that the Muslim Brotherhood is making citizenship and not religion the qualification for political equality? Do such pronouncements promise a soft Syrian landing to democracy? Is [...]
Here is a note I received from Massoud Derhally of Arabian Business about a documentary al-Jazeera is showing on al-Qa`ida in the Levant. It explains how al-Qa`ida leaders hope to open a new front in Syria and the states surrounding Palestine. Al Jazeera ran on Sept 18 the second part of a documentary by Yusri [...]
My apologies to David Schenker. Several days ago I wrote: “David Schenker of WINEP and Tony Badran of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies are pushing [a] conspiracy theory.” The conspiracy theory I was referring to is the notion that the Syrian government was behind the terrorist attack on the American embassy. In fact, [...]
“The UN Report will be a Bust”by Idaf, published on Syria CommentSeptember 16, 2006 The most interesting paragraph for me in Kaplan’s article was this: This is a lot to bite off. It’s not at all an appealing idea, whatever the trade-offs, to legitimize the resumption of Syrian influence in Lebanese politics or the stiffening [...]
Fred Kaplan at Slate has written an excellent article explaining what it would take to make a deal with Syria. I have copied a bit of the article below. (Warning: he quotes me.) One of the important questions that weighs on all those pushing engagement is what Syria really wants. Here is a bit of [...]
Dear Readers,I am preparing to move Syria Comment to another site and to migrate to Word Press instead of blogger. Here is the new site I am preparing http://joshualandis.com. I would appreciate it if anyone interested would take a look and send me any ideas for how to format it or what to add – [...]
Liberals And The Chances For Democracy In The Middle East – Third In line?By EHSANI2September 14, 2006 It has often been suggested that the Arab world is not ready for western style liberal democracy. One often hears that there is something unique or intrinsic about the Arab culture that inhibits democratic governance. Such sentiments have [...]
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