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…lly be in a worse situation than before Camp David. Politically, I’d find myself in much the same position as President Assad, after the leak of the American draft from Shepherdstown: apparently ready to consider giving Arafat the great majority of the West Bank, without the slig...

…ith Syria. He asked me about the talks under Rabin and Peres, and my views on the possibility of a deal with President Assad. He also wanted my assessment about whether the army could work out arrangements to safeguard the country’s security if we handed back most, if not all, o...

…st to the Gaza agreement. Palestinian unity government headed by Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah is sworn in. Bashar al-Assad is re-elected President of Syria in an election whose legitimacy was widely contested. Field Marshall Abdel Fattah a-Sissi is sworn in as President of th...

… OH YOU AND YOUR STUDENTS—NOW THAT'S A SURPRISE. Consider the “Butcher of Bagdad” Saddam Hussein or the sadistic Basir Assad. The only thing they didn’t do is specialize in rape, although Saddam’s son Uday did and we can be sure each had greater than average reproductive success...

… Iran itself, the Hezbollah movement in Lebanon, the Sadrist movement and other Shia Islamist currents in Iraq, Syria's Assad regime, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad organisation. It appeared in recent years also to be absorbing Hamas. The mugawama bloc presented itself as the...

… which could develop into an opportunity to fundamentally change the balance of power and the course of the war against Assad's regime. And one insight: ISIS may not be as strong as it is being portrayed. A coherent intense, coordinated action during the next year or two, partic...

…ring one community over another in cynical power plays. Many Sunni Muslims in Syria and throughout the region feel that Assad's Syria has unduly favored the Alawites, a sect of Shiite Islam, who constitute some 12 percent of the population but control a vastly greater percentage...

…unds to the Hamas enclave in Gaza. These setbacks do not mean the end of Iran and its allies as a regional power bloc. Assad has not yet fallen. The Iranian nuclear programme is proceeding apace. Tehran's Hezbollah client is in effective control of Lebanon. But it does mean that...

…on rested with the Syrians, who, along with Iran, were Hizbollah’s main backers. If we could get a peace agreement with Assad, there seemed every reason to hope he would rein in Hizbollah, and perhaps open the way to a peace treaty with Lebanon as well. Still, there was no way o...

…need a leader,” I replied. “It needs therapy.” In truth, I suspected that if we ever got near to a peace agreement with Assad or Arafat, even therapy might not help. But that was a main reason that I’d promised a referendum on any final peace deals. I believed that in the choice...

…ith Syria. He asked me about the talks under Rabin and Peres, and my views on the possibility of a deal with President Assad. He also wanted my assessment about whether the army could work out arrangements to safeguard the country’s security if we handed back most, if not all, o...

…eld this week, following an offer by their top political leader for negotiations with the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028690

and what they see in Washington is a president who prefers the Assads to the possibility of chaos. They realize that the measures taken until now by the United States and Europe have been relatively gentle

…tinians. I knew, from my involvement in the talks with the Syrians, that the outline of a possible peace agreement with Assad was already in place. I frankly wasn’t confident that Bibi was the man to lead it forward. Yes, he was smart. He was organizationally astute. He’d been a...

the Iranian mullahs and the younger Assad have been sent back to the benches in disgrace. Their counsel is now seen as both morally dubious and pragmatically unwise; the ‘realists’ would have put the US on the wrong side of history in the service of unrealistic assumptions about...