Where Syria appears
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…their names, instead of being symbols of stability, instantly cast as sources of injustice. Other countries - Syria, Algeria, Sudan, and Bahrain tumble for periods into the black hole of civil violence. Some people mistake all this for a de...
ns of the Homeland”—a reference to the Syrian armed forces—in an effort to encourage the army to join the uprising. Security and military forces appear, however, to be stepping up their campaign in an attempt to end the protests. Tens of pe...
…s grand plan — or at least the Lebanon part of it. Yes, we’d ended up fighting a kind of half-war against the Syrians which, though we’d won it, still left 30,000 of Assad’s men in Lebanon. And they showed no signs of leaving. Our main stra...
…rical than real. As usual, the Egyptians could not afford the level of effort needed to move into the Levant. Syria by itself had a very real interest in Israel's defeat, but by itself was
… Teens: the King made visits to Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait from January 29" to February 4. Syria: Israeli warplanes are generally believed to have struck a convoy en route to Lebanon on January 30", although this has not...
…otiations highlights two factors that could also be relevant in the increasingly messy conflicts in Libya and Syria. First, the dialogue must be sponsored by people inside the country that’s facing internal strife. The United States may enc...
…t to do more. Egypt, with its unemployed masses, could make use of Dubai's incentives for foreign investment. Syria might adopt its free trade ways. Iraq and Israel could use a dose of its religious tolerance. And its Gulf neighbors might s...
…oordinate a raft of Palestinian youth organizations—located in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria—all united around one goal: to create a Palestinian Tahrir Square. They organized the unity march that helped pressure Fatah...
… 100,000 of the lamps have been (or are being) used after emergencies in Japan, the Philippines, Thailand and Syria. Sunlite makes 15,000 lamps a month at two plants in
ons in the Druze areas, which had never before shown any sign of revolt against the Assad dynasty. Yesterday, Syria's biggest Druze city, Suwaidah, became an "Assad-free" zone as portraits of the despot and his father were burned in public....
…rs later, the picture was clearer, and more worrying with each new report from back home. Surprise attacks by Syria and Egypt — armies we’d not just defeated, but humiliated, six years earlier — had pinned down and pushed back our forces on...
…resources, and a full and final peace treaty. For Rabin, there was an additional attraction in beginning with Syria: if we did reach a deal with our main Arab enemy, the pressure would intensify on the Palestinians to follow suit. The drama...
…estinians wanted. Negotiations to bridge it were likely to be fraught and long. So he’d decided to begin with Syria. President Assad was obstinate, and publicly opposed to the idea of making peace with Israel. But he’d been in power for mor...
14 JAM v. INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORP. BREYER, J., dissenting See H.R. Rep. No. 1208, at 1. That multilateralism is threatened if one nation alone, through application of its own liability rules (by nonexpert judges), can shape the policy ch...
40 meant that Turkey, controlling the Bosporus, had to be kept in the American bloc. Syria and Iraq shifted policies in the late 1950s and by the mid-1960s had been armed by the Soviets. This made Turkey's position precarious: If the Soviet...
…while the most authentic opponents in the region of these Sunni al-Qaedists - the governments of Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Iran - have found themselves overthrown (in the case of Iraq and Libya), subverted with U.S. support (in the case of Sy...
… foundations of Arab autocracy and giving a great jolt to the immobile political order in the Middle East. In Syria, the authorities then made what may prove to be a fatal mistake. In a move that looked like panic, the security forces used...
…ary mode. By the time it consolidates and exploits the coastal plain, it would be powerful enough to threaten Syria. From Syria's point of view, the only thing more dangerous than Israel is an Egypt in control of Israel. Therefore, the prob...
…nly a narrow strip of populated area east of the Jordan. To the north, there is a maritime commercial entity. Syria operating alone, forced through the narrow gap of the Mount Hermon-Galilee line and operating on extended supply lines, can...
Syria was always going to be harder. But Rabin had moved past his anger over the “pocket deposit”, and we began a new effort via the Americans. Our aim was to lay out a comprehensive, staged proposal to trade nearly the entire Golan for pea...
