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Freedom House Authoritarians on Color Revolutions “In my opinion, everything that happened in Ukraine shook Russia... Young people began to discuss and think about Russias direc- tion.” —lvan Mostovich, press secretary of the pro-Kremlin youth organization Nashi, April 2005 “...

…ties. • Lobbied Obama Administration to include UVI as a community college for the President’s proposal to make 2 years free at community colleges. • Territorial Economic Growth and Recovery Act of 2016 (H.R.5163) — Introduced to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide...

…hideous sex offenses with dozens of minors, Epstein received a sentence of 13 months in jail, during which he was often free during the day. Epstein's decision to buy his out of the civil lawsuit, one that he had the nerve to initiate, benefits Acosta. The trial would have provid...

… doctor, who had been with us at the Chinese Farm. Both were obviously torn between a sense of accomplishment in having freed the hostages and the blow of losing Yoni. I asked Ephraim to take me to the front of the plane’s huge belly to see him. He was on a stretcher, covered wit...

almost inevitable. Subsequently, the conflict in Syria is dramatically impacting its neighboring countries. More than a million of refugees from Syria have fled to Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon and Iraq. Some critics, looking at the turmoil in Syria, Egypt, Lybia, claim that the warm...

remaining U.S. troops in Afghanistan within the next year. But officials said the withdrawal would be weighted toward year’s end, leaving most of the troops to partner with Afghan troops for much of this year. The president said the United States would support democratic transiti...

…Thankfully, however, the majority fled north. In south Lebanon, this meant that our jets and artillery had much greater freedom of operation against Hizbollah, which had now lost its human shields. In Beirut, a government suddenly overwhelmed with the need to provide shelter for...

33 in 1966, a position he cleverly exploited after Syria’s defeat by Israel in the Six-Day War of 1967, after which it was alleged that the regime had had secret dealings with the Jewish state. A “palace coup” inside the leadership brought Assad to power as president in 1970. Th...

Russia and China tried to justify their vetoes by claiming that the Arab states were divided over Syria. This wasn’t true then and is less so now. The Arab League has suspended Syria’s membership and condemned the rule-by-massacre policy. Arab support is also building up for crea...

for whom they are effectively acting as a local proxy in opposition to external actors such as the pro-regime Russia. Given Erdogan's sharp differences with Washington over Israel-Palestine and the Iraq war

suggestions that Turkey may physically intervene in northern Syria to create a safe haven for civilians displaced by the violence are likely to resurface. Several thousand Syrian refugees are already sheltering inside Turkey

“What the hell is going on?” I replied, in a mix of a shout and a whisper, since I knew the convoy was getting closer. But within a minute, we spotted the lead Land Rover, which was soon past us on the way up to the ridge. It was followed by two large American cars, with the Syri...

4 about how to deal with the growing protests has led to increasingly violent confrontations inside the regime between would-be reformers and hard-liners. The outcome of this internal contest remains uncertain. What is certain, however, is that what happens in Syria is of great...

/ BARAK / 4 reason, that was absurd. Near the end of the campaign, there was going be a head- to-head television debate. In the meantime, though Bibi might be many things, he wasn’t stupid. He was already telling voters that while Peres was making deals with Arafat, ordinary Isr...

Chapter Four At first, it was only “approval in principle”. It’s impossible to overstate the trepidation with which Israel’s military brass, and Ben-Gurion himself, approached the decision finally to send Sayeret Matkal into action. It was not just the fact that we were a unit u...