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Morsi’s plan for his first 100 days, pt 1
Someone on CairoScholars (a major email list) forwarded a translation they got from an Egyptian friend. I chose not to edit it except in places where it was actually confusing, so there are a few...
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Hizballah to side with al Asad?
listen to ‘Hezbollah on the verge of more explicit backing for Assad after death of commander in Syria, says analyst Nicholas Noe’ on Audioboo Not sure if that’s going to embed properly, but here, at...
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Hizballah takes responsibility for drone downed in Israel
Hizballah takes responsibility for drone downed in Israel This is a very neat little trick: The leader of the Lebanese movement Hezbollah has said that his organisation launched an Iranian-built drone...
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Proxy wars in the Levant: will Lebanon get sucked into Syria’s mess?
Uh oh. Termoil in Beirut after the Ashrafiyeh car bombing: The military raids, which began around 10 a.m., were heavily concentrated in the areas of Tayyouneh, Qasqas and Beshara al-Khoury. The Army...
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Keeping Israel from replaying its mistakes during the Lebanese Civil War in...
Here is an op-ed in the NYT saying, essentially, that to avoid another mess like Israel’s invasion and occupation of Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil war, Israel and the Syrian anti-regime forces...
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Syrian refugees in Lebanon: replaying the lead-up to the Lebanese civil war
Photo via LA Times: Syrians who fled their homes due to fighting line up to collect water from a tanker early this month as they took refuge at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing in hopes of entering...
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Al Asad threatens to make the Golan a major battlefront, tries to misdirect...
Oh, Bashar, sometimes you are so obvious it’s almost embarrassing. From The Australian: SYRIA’S President Bashar al-Assad has threatened to open “a new front” against Israel in the Golan Heights, as...
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Proxy wars: Syria’s war continues to spill into Lebanon
Image from Vice Okay, so Vice is not at all my favorite source, but proxy wars are kind of my thing (and I appreciate that they used the term!), so here we go. Over the past eight days, fighting...
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Syria could bring Iran and the U.S. together–but probably won’t
Iran’s new President Rouhani throwing up a peace sign From the NYT comes an unusually reasonable look at Iran’s position. This started out so potentially hopeful: Two recent diplomatic ventures have...
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