Jan

31

Get used to it: Intervention in Syria is coming (aka, preparing for the worst helps it not happen)

January 31, 2012 - 12:00am

Now Lebanon
http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=358990

The United States faces a terrible conundrum regarding Syria.

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Jan

24

Brace for the worst in Bahrain

January 24, 2012 - 12:00am

Now Lebanon
http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=356316

The stage seems to be set for February and March to be the scene of a significant intensification of tensions in Bahrain. The period will mark the one-year anniversaries of the protest movement, the government crackdown, and the “Peninsula Shield” intervention by Saudi-led Gulf Cooperation Council forces.

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Jan

17

President Moussa, we presume

January 17, 2012 - 12:00am

Now Lebanon
http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=353648

The path to Egypt’s presidency for former foreign minister and former Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa has just opened up substantially. As things are lining up, not much seems to stand between him and a victory in elections next summer.

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Jan

10

Of course Gaza is still occupied

January 10, 2012 - 12:00am

Now Lebanon
http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=350818

It never ceases to amaze how much leaders of Hamas and the Israeli far-right agree about. But the latest iteration of this bizarre de facto alliance is a real doozy: alone in the world, they both say the Gaza Strip is not occupied by Israel.

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Jan

3

Too early to judge the Arab revolts

January 3, 2012 - 12:00am

Now Lebanon
http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=348411

A year into the Arab uprisings, it’s far too early to come to any definitive conclusions about where the upheavals will lead.

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Dec

27

Neither Palestinians nor Israelis can be "uninvented"

December 27, 2011 - 12:00am

Now Lebanon
http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=346508&MID=0&PID=0
A gauge of how deeply attitudes have hardened between Israelis and Palestinians is that The Jerusalem Post»

Dec

24

Israel Policy Forum's The Pulse interview with Ibish on "Hamas' Dilema"

December 24, 2011 - 12:00am

IPF
http://www.israelpolicyforum.org/blog/hamas-dilemma

Hussein Ibish spoke with Steve Spiegel about how regional dynamics are impacting Palestinian reconciliation efforts amid reports that Hamas is considering joining the PLO.

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Dec

21

Hamas on the move

December 21, 2011 - 12:00am

Now Lebanon
http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=344594&MID=0&PID=0
Hamas is on the move, both literally and figuratively, but how far it can and will go very much remains to be determined.
 
Hamas is in an impossible position, given the regional realignments following from the Arab uprisings, and is frantically trying to adjust without paying too high a price.
 
For more than a decade, Hamas’ strategy was based on being simultaneously allied with both the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood network and the, essentially, Shiite, Iranian-led alliance.
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Dec

13

The Beauty of Tunisia's New Political Banality

December 13, 2011 - 12:00am

Now Lebanon
http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=342187

 

I've been appearing on television talk shows for more than 12 years and I've never found them to be an emotional experience, until last Sunday, that is.

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Dec

6

One cheer for the Egyptian elections

December 6, 2011 - 12:00am

Now Lebanon
http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=339875&MID=0&PID=0

 

The preliminary results of the first round of the elections in Egypt for the new constituent assembly were both predictable and sobering.

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