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"Screw France. Hello Germany." This is how one SC commentator greeted the news that Germany is giving Syria 46 million dollars in aid, breaking the European embargo on aid to Syria. Generally the isolation dam that the US tried to build around Syria is breaking down. Addendum: (Aug. 31,2007) Zubaida writes: "You should be careful about overinterpreting the [...]
SYRIA: Government controls services liberalisationMonday, August 13 2007Oxford Analytica Ltd SUBJECT: The uneven pattern of liberalisation in Syria's key services sectors. SIGNIFICANCE: The government's determination to cherry pick the type and timing of liberalisation is most obvious in the field of services. Telecommunications remains largely closed to foreign and private sector investors, while the banking [...]
Whose fault is it that jihadists get into Iraq across the Syrian border? There is a lot of blame to go around according to latest reports. America's fault. This is according to a high placed Iraqi politician. McClatchy's quotes the official explaining that roughly half the 300 million dollars being spent in Anbar province for reconstruction [...]
France is prepared to open up in a "spectacular way" to Syria if it stops meddling in Lebanon, French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner said in a newspaper interview published on Sunday. Kouchner stated he hoped Damascus would "not create obstacles to Lebanon's sovereignty" when it holds presidential elections next month. "If Syria does not create obstacles [...]
Senator Lieberman Will propose legislation to ban Damascus Airport. Here is the World Tribune article sent by t-desco (Thanks). Damascus airport called Al Qaida hub WASHINGTON — Sen. Joseph Lieberman, an independent Senator from Connecticut, has been recruiting support for legislation that would sanction Damascus International Airport. Lieberman said the airport has become the major [...]
Here is a little vanity, today's NPR show for which I have a bit. To listen, click here. Iran and Syria: An Alliance Shaped by Mutual Foes by Deborah Amos Morning Edition, August 22, 2007 · Over the last quarter-century, Iran and Syria have sustained a strong partnership, which many experts see as an odd [...]
Alison Brooks, who wrote this fine article on Syria's stock market for Syria Today, allowed me and my family to share her apartment with her in Damascus this summer. Here is a picture from this summer. . Great ExpectationsAlison Brooks reports on the preparations for the opening of the Damascus Stock Exchange Syria Today, August 2007 [...]
Syria and Israel: The Changing Military Balance and the Prospects for War Anthony H. Cordesman Washington, DC, August 20, 2007- Syria and Israel: The Changing Military Balance and the Prospects of War Anthony H. Cordesman The political and military relations between Syria and Israel continue to remain strained, and there have been reports that both [...]
The Great Middle East Peace Process ScamHenry SiegmanLondon Review of Books | Vol. 29 No. 16 dated 16 August 2007 | Henry Siegman When Ehud Olmert and George W. Bush met at the White House in June, they concluded that Hamas's violent ousting of Fatah from Gaza – which brought down the Palestinian national unity [...]
Lebanon's 2006 war with Israel gets particular attention on its first anniversary. Here is a cross-section of the articles with a few of their conclusions. Tallying up Lebanon's war a year laterBy Rami G. Khouri, Daily Star, Saturday, August 18, 2007 Lebanon has been the main loser from last year's war Hizbullah now finds itself in [...]
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