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January 8, 2012 |

FDD In The News

Iran and the Myth of the Pro-Regime Backlash Emanuele Ottolenghi – The Wall Street Journal Would a U.S. military strike against Iran kill anti-regime sentiment inside the...

January 5, 2012 |

FDD In The News

Iran and the Myth of the Pro-Regime Backlash Emanuele Ottolenghi – The Wall Street Journal Would a U.S. military strike against Iran kill anti-regime sentiment inside the...

January 5, 2012 |

FDD In The News

Iran and the Myth of the Pro-Regime Backlash Emanuele Ottolenghi – The Wall Street Journal What’s Obama’s Plan B After Arab League Monitors? Tony...

January 3, 2012 |

FDD In The News

Iran and the Myth of the Pro-Regime Backlash Emanuele Ottolenghi – The Wall Street Journal What’s Obama’s Plan B After Arab League Monitors? Tony...

November 30, 2011 | Lee Smith Tablet |

Fallible

In June, Hezbollah announced that it had captured two, perhaps three, CIA spies who had infiltrated its organization. Last week, the story finally made...

June 22, 2010 | |

Syriana

In the annals of “big policy ideas,” perhaps none has had as much staying power in the face of a dismal track record than the seemingly perpetual conviction that integrating Syria int...

May 20, 2010 | Tony Badran Jerusalem Post

The Flight of the Intellectuals

Paul Berman is someone who takes ideas - especially pernicious and toxic ones - very seriously. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, Berman wrote a penetrating work, Terror and Liberalism...

May 17, 2009 | |

Hezbollah’s Agenda in Lebanon

This article was...

April 16, 2009 | |

Syria’s plan

In an interview with the Emirate daily Al-Khaleej last week, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad once again revealed his intention to dominate Lebanon. Assad made a number of thinly-veiled threats a...

July 24, 2008 | Tony Badran Across The Bay |

Three Regime Flacks Play Washington

Check out this editorial in NOW Lebanon today about the "independent" Syrian regime hands in DC. I will com...

July 23, 2008 | Tony Badran Across The Bay |

Landis Gets the Memo from Imad Moustapha

As you know by now, Joshua Landis' job is to regurgitate the talking points memos that Imad Moustapha sends out. Witness this absolutely pathetic exercise, just to get an idea of the value o...

June 29, 2008 | Tony Badran Beirut2Bayside

The Argument for Divorce

 Back in February, Walid Jumblat made critical statements in an interview with Future News Channel. Jumblat spoke of the need for an "amicable divorce" between Hezbollah and the rest of Leba...

June 5, 2007 | |

Before Talking, See if There is Anything to Talk About

Recently, writing in The Washington Post, US Congressman Darrell Issa made "the case for talking to Syria." However, implementing his proposal would effectively reverse years of multilateral US p...