Posts Tagged: syria
The Syria Mess and Secretary Clinton’s Flawed Responses
Speaking at the UN Security Council last week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared, "It is time for the international community to put aside our...
Russia: Syria’s Big Brother at the United Nations
Gruesome and utterly predictable bloody developments in Syria, despite their horror, serve one positive purpose. Anyone willing to consider a Ron Paul-like world where America...
How Syria’s Ruling Apparatus Became Its Albatross
It was strongly suggested by close top officials in the Syrian government that I spoke with more than a decade ago that when Syria's...
Keystone Influence: Syria’s Arab Spring and the Race for Regional Hegemony
The Arab Spring is changing the political and strategic map of the Middle East as we know it in ways that will persist for...
Obama’s Syrian Failure
The Arab League's decision to suspend Syria is a serious blow to President Bashar al-Assad's highly unpopular regime, and has led many to believe that...
Friendless In The Middle East
The Arab upheavals of 2011 have inspired wildly inconsistent Western responses. How, for example, can one justify abiding the suppression of dissidents in Bahrain while...
Iran and Israel’s Southern Front
Israelis following the escalation of rocket launches against southern Israel this past week probably noticed all the reports that the Palestinian organization...
Abraham Vs. Gaddafi
The Genesis of a Faith The unfolding dramatic events in Libya, Syria, Egypt, and other countries in the Middle East and Africa, as well...
Southern Israeli Residents Struggle Under ‘Nightmarish’ Rocket Fire
Sixteen-year-old Liz Sheetrit and her family stand in their home with shell-shocked expressions as they point to their burnt front yard and shattered kitchen window....
Fall of the Gaddafi Regime: A Brief Analysis
On October 20, 2011, the former strongman of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, was captured and killed in his hometown of Sirte. The "King of Kings" of...
Obama’s Frightening Success
Turkish and Iranian flags. So this is how American foreign policy "success" looks nowadays. (WARNING: Graphic Images.) Without getting all misty-eyed about...
Cyprus on the World Stage
Cyprus, an island of roughly 1.3 million inhabitants near Turkey and Syria, finds itself on the cusp of momentous change, with great opportunities...
Abbas Could Be Next Domino to Fall
Since his United Nations speech last month demanding Palestinian statehood, Western media accounts have highlighted the hero's welcome received by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas when he...
Israel’s Uncertainties
Much has happened since I left Israel in June. First, the feared Gaza flotilla redux fizzled just outside the Greek harbor. Thanks to Israeli diplomacy, Greece...
