Blaming Terrorists for Terrorism
Yesterday the Bulgarian government announced the results of its investigation into...
Rafic Hariri
Assad’s Cabinet
Syria’s dictator’s, and the rest of the Iranian-led resistance bloc’s, well-placed advocates in Washington.
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Jerusalem Presses Case for EU to Ban Hezbollah
The Israeli government is redoubling its efforts to convince the European Union to outlaw Hezbollah within the 27-member body because of the Lebanese group’s record of terrorism....
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Will Europe Outlaw Hezbollah?
BERLIN -- The July suicide bombing of a bus full of Israeli tourists at the seaside Bulgarian resort of Bur...
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US Adds 2 Senior Hezbollah Military Leaders to Terror List
Yesterday the US Treasury Department added both Hezbollah's military leader and the chief of its External Security Organization to the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists....
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Bashar’s Cult of Personality
Last week, the daily Al-Joumhouria published the transcripts of the surveillance tapes in the case of former mi...
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Ban Ki-moon Over Tehran
Proof – as if more were needed – that the UN is broken beyond repair.
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The Day I Met Syria’s Mr Big
"The country is not ready for revolutions and civil disobedience," he told me. "That's your opinion," I replied. "We won't imprison you and let your friends in America...
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A Talk with Samir Geagea, Head of the Lebanese Forces
Maarab, Lebanon Samir Geagea is reluctant to speak much of the attem...
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Total Collapse
A number of recent articles make the case that...
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The Road From Damascus
When Khaled Meshaal slipped quietly out of Damascus in January, Hamas ended a decade-long stay in the Syrian cap...
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Damascus Dialogue Disaster
Watching Syrians get slaughtered by their own rulers and hearing the outraged statements from European leaders about Syrian atrocities one would think that Syria had it coming. Af...
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[email protected]…
In the fall of 2007 Israel reportedly hacked into Syria’s air defense systems and disabled them, as a prelude to bombing a nuclear facility in the Syrian desert. This vaunted cyber exploit,...
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A Hezbollah Crack-up?
Lebanon’s fratricidal extremists.
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Minority Interest
Being Christian in the Middle East has never been easy, but the wave of uprisings that has swept the region over the past year has made the situation for the region’s Christian minority alm...
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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...
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Empty Gestures
Trying to explain the growing chasm between Israel and Europe, the British journalist and author Anatol Lieven wrote in 2004: "For equally valid and legitimate reasons, Western Europe and parts o...
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What Syria Policy?
The threat against the life of the American ambassador to Syria comes during a bad streak for the Obama administration. First was the Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United State...
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Embroiled
The relative quiet that Israel has enjoyed during the turmoil of the Arab Spring could not last for long. It came to an end last Thursday with the terror attacks close to Eilat, near the border w...
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Death by a Thousand Cuts
Summer in the eastern Mediterranean is always hot, wet, and stormy. But in Lebanon, this summer could be bad — even by last year’s standards. The political struggle that has paralyzed...