Results for “Arab Journalism Award”

…nspection and allow rumors to swirl. So Iran, long at the top of the Washington agenda, has slid down. It’s partly the Arab Spring. It’s partly that you can’t keep saying the same thing. People do begin to remember the refrain, although nobody in the large Iran-the-clear-and-pre...

…f Middle Eastern and South Asian affairs for Stratfor, Qatari support for Hamas is part of the sheikhdom's larger, post-Arab Spring strategy of siding with HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025087

…eace process, put in motion by the Bush Administration after the Gulf War. But since both Prime Minister Shamir and our Arab enemies had reasons of procedure, politics or principle to resist the talks, merely getting them off the ground had required the same combination of deftne...

…this was no longer enough. Our intelligence operations still mattered. In fact, we would have to “push further” across Arab borders, deeper into enemy communications systems. Our intercepts had given Israel an important edge in the Six-Day War. I assumed — though naively, it wou...

response, or an American one, on an incomparably greater scale. It would also totally isolate Saddam internationally and end any chance of peeling off Arab support for the Americans. It was my nearly 100-per-cent caveat that prompted a tense debate within the cabinet. Even if th...

…€¢ Iranad€™s Revolutionary Guards vowed to retaliate for an attack on a military parade that killed 25 people. A local Arab separatist group claimed responsibility, but Iran blamed Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E. and the U.S. Above, a funeral for victims of the attack. [The New York T...

…t and find that fears for supply have diminished. There are three reasons. First, the most substantial fallout from the Arab world’s recent upheaval is behind us. Syria’s Bashar al-Assad continues to fight for survival and Yemen continues to flirt with failed-state status, but th...

…ist Ennahda party. The events heighten the Islamist-secular divide that has featured in the Tunisian transition and the Arab Spring at large. Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali described the event as the “assassination of the Tunisian revolution” and promised to dissolve the I...

…ed out how to respond, we had to make sure, at all costs, the plane didn’t take off again. It would presumably go to an Arab country, where we’d be powerless to act. Though only a handful of my men had arrived, I took the only officer who had, Shai Agmon, and an El Al engineer to...

…ul objective” with implications for “the very security of Israel.” He added: “I do not see anyone similar to him in the Arab world.” I, too, was on balance persuaded we should do it. In the years since, I’ve sometime reflected on what happened with Saddam still in place: the 200...

…o spectacular failures either. And more than likely, that's what the president will settle for in a second, even as the Arab world burns and rogues like Iran and North Korea brandish new weapons. He's nothing if not a cautious man. Behold: I am the Extricator in Chief Afghanist...

…oth to control the violence, and seek out any realistic prospect of a political path to resolving our conflict with our Arab neighbors. 252 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028100

… will he launch a war, however, since such a war will not result in victory. A democratic regime in Syria, or any other Arab country for that matter, will need a good 10 years to build democratic institutions and stabilize a modern market economy needed in any democracy. So, war...

…eadquarters” was a sparsely furnished Tel Aviv apartment. The first people he brought in were veterans of the Palmach’s Arab Platoon, pre-state fighters who trained themselves to pass as Arabs and gather intelligence, or stage raids, behind enemy lines. Next, he invited friends w...

…esolved peacefully — has been the peace process itself, which today is almost nonexistent. When, for example, I told an Arab ambassador acquaintance I was going to see a preview of the play, he simply remarked: “No one talks about the peace process any more. It doesn’t exist.” T...