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What Effect will Turkey’s switch from Israeli ally to Israeli opponent have on Syria and the Regional Balance of Power? How and when Turkey’s switch from Israeli ally to Israeli opponent will effect the balance of power in the Middle East is disputed. But most analysts agree that it will have profound consequences in time. George Friedman of [...]
Radwan Ziadeh, who runs the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies, has written a report published in Washington this month by the Transitional Justice in the Arab World Project, entitled, “Years of Fear.” He argues that as many as 17,000 Syrians may have been “disappeared” during Hafez el-Assad’s rule; the 117-page document contains heart-breaking accounts [...]
The Wall Street Journal was perplexed that the US. Deploys Tech Firms to Win Syrian Allies. They write that “the State Department has dispatched a high-level diplomatic and trade mission to Syria, according to senior U.S. officials, marking the latest bid by the Obama administration to woo President Bashar al-Assad away from his strategic alliance with [...]
Landis Interview with a Foreign Journalist 1. Professor Landis, tensions between the US and Syria have deteriorated. What are the main reasons of this deterioration? Syrian-US relations have been quite bad since 2000 when President Clinton’s efforts to broker an agreement between Israel and Syria collapsed. The reason for this failure are important because initially, [...]
Uri Saguy tells all, ctd: Provides an insider’s account of Barak’s “missed opportunity” with Syria in 2000 Copied from Didi Remez’s blog Coteret. June 17, 2010 [I want to thank Didi for translating this very interesting interview and bringing it to us. I copy the whole thing shamelessly because it is such an important part of [...]
Tit-for-tat Diplomatic War between Syria and US: Syrian Visas for Americans are no longer being issued at the border with Lebanon, Jordan, or Turkey. They must be procured in Washington. For the last few years Syria did issue visas at the border, but made Americans wait between an hour to seven hours before issuing them. [...]
Syria Comment is not dangerous. It is not infected with a virus or malware. Many readers are receiving warnings from their webbrowser claiming that Syria Comment is a danger. It is not a danger. The malware script that triggered the warning a week ago was immediately cleaned from the server. Unfortunately, Google, which flags the site and introduces [...]
Israel has, in effect, arrested all of the flotilla members. This means that Israel is free to spin to the news media with little correction from the other side. All the same the damage for Israel is mounting. The Greek government has decided to discontinue the joint military exercise currently under way and to postpone [...]
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