Archive for 'Syria'
A mistaken case for Syrian regime change
Aisling Byrne
Article posted on Asia Times Online on 05 January 2012 and republished by Counterpunch in the USA.
“War with Iran is already here,” wrote a leading Israeli commentator recently, describing “the combination of covert warfare and international pressure” being applied to Iran.
Although not mentioned, the “strategic prize” of the first stage of this war on […]
Posted: January 9th, 2012 under ARTICLES, AUTHORS, Democracy, Iran, Syria.
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Understanding Hizbullah’s Support for the Asad Regime
A Monograph written by Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, an independent Lebanese academic and political analyst.
Although Hizbullah does indeed depend on the Asad regime for its arms’ flow, this consideration alone does not adequately grasp the other motives behind its controversial stance, nor does it sufficiently explain the sturdiness of its alliance with Syria. Reducing Hizbullah’s close alliance […]
Posted: November 1st, 2011 under Diplomacy, Hezbollah, Israel-Hezbollah war, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, MONOGRAPHS, Palestinians, Syria.
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The ‘great game’ in Syria
Alastair Crooke
Article posted on Asia Times Online, 22 October 2011
This summer, a senior Saudi official told John Hannah [1], former United States vice president Dick Cheney’s former chief-of-staff, that from the outset of the Syrian upheaval in March, the king has believed that regime change in Syria would be highly beneficial to Saudi interests: […]
Posted: October 26th, 2011 under ARTICLES, AUTHORS, Alastair Crooke, Obama administration, Syria.
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Unfolding the Syrian Paradox
Alastair Crooke
Article posted on Asia Times Online
Can Syria properly be understood as an example of a “pure” Arab popular revolution, an uprising of non-violent, liberal protest against tyranny that has been met only by repression? I believe this narrative to be a complete misreading, deliberately contrived to serve quite separate ambitions. The consequences of turning […]
Posted: July 27th, 2011 under AUTHORS, Alastair Crooke, Democracy, Syria.
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The Arab awakening and Syrian exceptionalism
Alistair Crooke
Article posted on www.foreignpolicy.com
Cleavage in political culture between the domestic and external could not have been better illustrated than in President Bashar Assad’s March 30 televised address to the Syrian people. Its style perturbed, and then called down almost universal disdain, externally — for being both insufficient and ill-judged. In Syria, where I was, […]
Posted: April 11th, 2011 under AUTHORS, Alastair Crooke, Syria.
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A wonderful day in the neighborhood
By Mark Perry, Bitter Lemons, January 17, 2008
“Good fences make good neighbors,” the American poet Robert Frost once wrote, and he oughta know. The failed farmer turned schoolteacher was a professional Puritan who spent his lifetime not hugging people, though he is now described as one of America’s “most beloved poets”. That is to say: […]
Posted: January 27th, 2008 under ARTICLES, Israel, Mark Perry, Syria.
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