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document TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025247.txt Oct 25, 2012 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…month: USD 111/bbl) UBS View (crude oil) Brent 6-month target: USD 105-110/bbl • Growing fear over an escalation of the Syrian civil war, involving Turkey, allowed crude oil prices to move higher again. While Syria's crude oil exports already dropped to near zero due to internati...

information. But in talking with his wartime friends, he realized this kind of
document IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027905.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…zed this kind of low-level intelligence could never address the real need for Israel: to ensure we had early warning if Syria or Lebanon, Jordan or Egypt, were preparing to go to war against us. He began toying with the idea of training a small force of Israeli soldiers to go on...

Obama has made no big mistakes in a revolutionary environment, but no victories
document IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025810.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…safe and no risk options. Only a president can overcome organizational dynamics. Not all big bets are worth taking. 3. Syria — Pattern has been to hesitate and equivocate. Some of our allies are joking that we will implement a no fly zone ... 10 feet at a time. We should break t...

be drafted and passed into law. There could be no giant leap into the
document IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030169.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

… be drafted and passed into law. There could be no giant leap into the unknown because decisions taken now would affect Syria for decades to come. The speech will disappoint all those who had hoped for immediate and dramatic reforms. The President served up a diet of words rathe...

The Crooked Course Xxxix
document IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023171.txt Oct 9, 2014 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…occupation. This understanding led to an agreement for the United Nations to negotiate with the Governments of Lebanon, Syria and Israel. Through intense, difficult, and stormy tripartite negotiations over five months, the UN Secretary-General was in May 2000 able to report to th...

MO: If Kurds have military confrontation with NAM, our response will depend on
document IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025801.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…arned? MO: NAM knows that when he leaves office, he could be prosecuted and put in jail. This will inform his actions. Syria and Iraq: would be in our interests if Syria issue was not seen as Sunni v Shia. We would like an opposition that is more broad based. Barzani could help...

A Defiant Asad Sticks to His Guns
document IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030167.txt Jun 21, 2011 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…t Asad Sticks to His Guns Patrick Seale 21 Jun 2011 -- All those dreaming of -- and working for -- ‘regime change’ in Syria will be outraged by President Bashar al-Asad’s speech last Monday, 20 June. They want him out, together with the hate figures around him who have been con...

Whether the stories were true wouldn’t matter. They would still make the real
document IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028181.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…mpossible. I also had doubts whether Assad was ready for real peace: embassies, open borders, personal contact between Syrians and Israelis, and ideally an internationally backed free-trade manufacturing area on the Golan to give Syria a tangible stake in ensuring the peace last...

Thomas L. Friedman
document TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030268.txt May 28, 2011 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ab world in January, toppling the regimes in Tunisia and Egypt and sending shockwaves through Bahrain, Libya, Yemen and Syria. A closer look at the political scene in Baghdad, however, shows that all is not well. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is in hot water, like many of his Ara...

The 2006 Military Confrontation Was Also A Victory For Damascus
document The 2006 military confrontation was also a victory for Damascus House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

as it showed the Islamic world that Syria was the only nation-state supporting effective resistance to Israel. It also showed Israel and the United States that Syria alone could control Hezbollah and that forcing Syria out of Lebanon was a strategic error on the part of Israel an...

Morality Games 303
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015515.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

Morality Games 303 been silent over his use of conventional weapons to kill over 100,000 Syrian civilians. A Reuters/Ipsos poll at the time found that only 9 % of Americans favored intervention in Syria, but 25 % supported intervention if the Syrian government forces used chemic...

Syria: Too Big to Fail?
document IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030073.txt May 12, 2011 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

Article 4. Foreign Policy Syria: Too Big to Fail? Aaron David Miller MAY 12, 2011 -- If you're a bit confused about U.S. President Barack Obama's passivity in the face of Syrian President Bashar al- Assad's brutal repression of domestic opposition, don't be. Syria isn't Libya...

At the time of writing, Bashar still seems to have a chance, if a slim
document IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024966.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

… conspire against it in the neighbouring countries -- Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and also Israel -- and among Syrian exiles in London, Paris and the US. These enemies have smelled blood. Riding on the turbulent wave of popular dissent, they will not easily give up. Acco...

The rise and possible fall of the Assad dynasty would provide a
document IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030089.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…y were not even accorded the dignity of a millet, or recognized religious community. When the French took over Greater Syria after World War I (including modern Lebanon and parts of modern Turkey), they flirted briefly with the idea of creating a highland Alawi state of 300,000...