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…passive response, Iranian aggression increases. With respect to Syria, for example, it cannot be assumed that Bashar al-Assad will fall at all, let alone quickly, without active U.S. engagement. If the Assad HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018204

28 Palestinians; and 20,000 Islamists killed in 1982 by the elder al- Assad in Hama. The World Health Organization’s estimate of Osama bin Laden’s carnage in Iraq was already 150,000 a few years earlier. In a 2007 research, Gunnar Heinsohn from the University of Bremen and Danie...

…for a single inch.” I replied in much the same vein when President Clinton urged me to help kick- start new talks with Assad by formally reaffirming Yitzhak’s “pocket deposit” on the Golan Heights. As with the Palestinians, I was not going to cede a major negotiating card — our...

…-reaching concessions which final peace deals might require. In the end, I realized that we might simply discover that Assad, and certainly Arafat, were not willing or ready to make peace. We might, initially at least, have to settle for a more incremental step. “Right here in C...

…e regime retreat to their ancestral homeland in the northwestern region around Latakia. And there’s no sign that either Assad or his Russian patrons are paying any more than lip service to a political settlement. One potential game-changer is a request for U.S. help in training...

… creating havens for Syrian refugees in Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan. Moscow had also expressed concern that, with Assad’s demise, a new Syrian government might “ignore Russia’s interests in the Middle East.” Since the vetoes, however, the Syrian National Council has establi...

…for a single inch.” I replied in much the same vein when President Clinton urged me to help kick- start new talks with Assad by formally reaffirming Yitzhak’s “pocket deposit” on the Golan Heights. As with the Palestinians, I was not going to cede a major negotiating card — our...

/ BARAK / 79 Syrians. Then to Geneva to see Assad, “where I felt like a wooden Indian, doing your bidding. I will not let it happen here. I will simply not do it.” I tried to keep my voice steady when I replied. I explained that the issues we were addressing went to the heart o...

what could he do that would deter a regime in a fight for its life? Pull U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford from Damascus? Impose a travel ban on Assad and his family? Press the Europeans to freeze Assad's money?

the Obama administration is worried about creating a worse situation if Assad falls. Take your pick of scary scenarios: civil war

which shook the government of Bashar al-Assad’s father Hafez in 1982

a minor chief of the Kalbiya clan and father of Hafez al-Assad.

that the countdown to the end of Syria's Assad regime

Bashar al-Assad had little or nothing of the menacing pose of a traditional Arab dictator. His manner was modest and

the foreign ministers of Iran and Russia (the closest allies of the al-Assad regime) seem to have agreed to help