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Saturday, May 02, 2009 
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• War as a "bad acid trip"
  Waltz with Bashir
  Ari Folman
   
• Europeans Await 'President' Obama With Some Nervousness
  CFR
   
• Gaza or Tehran
  Al Ahram
   
• "Somalia's New Reality: A Strategic Overview"
  Michael A. Weinstein
   
• Russia Makes Unpleasant Christmas Present to the West
  Pravda
   
• "Words without End"
  Arlene Kushner
   
• Sarko's Folly
  Doug Bandow
   
• U.S. tells Israel: Don't sell Lebanon for peace with Syria
  Barak Ravid
  Haaretz
   
• Facing Enemy Proxies: America Needs To Revise Its Current Strategic Doctrine
  Professor Louis René Beres, Generals (Ret.) McInerney and Vallely
   
• One World: Repeating Failure in Gaza
  Caroline Glick
   
• Secret Meeting Between Olmert and Syrian Official in Ankara
  Al-Quds al-Arabi
   
• A New Angle on Hizbullah's Weapons
  Rayyan al-Shawaf
   
• Iran-Oman heads of Joint Economic Commission Discuss Ways to Strengthen Ties
  IRNA
   
• Saudi Minister for Expansion of Ties with Iran
  IRNA
   
• Israel Considers Major Offensive in Response to Gaza Rocket Fire
  Voice Of America News
   
• Lebanon: Last Stop on a Jihad Highway
  Michael Scheuer
   
• Bushehr Nuclear Plant's Completion Could be Delayed - Iranian FM
  RIA Novosti
   
• Two Men Captured From Israel-Lebanon Border, Sound Familiar?
  Ahmed Shihab Eldin
   
• Syrian Diplomats Begin Work in Lebanon
   
• The Syrian Strategy
  Danielle Pletka
   
• A President-Elect's Progress
  From Rev. Wright to Rev. Warren.
  William Kristol
   
• Putin's 'Treason Bill' Strikes Fear, Outrage in Russia
  Caspar Weinberger Jr.
   
• Syria Building Missiles with Help from Venezuela and Iran
  Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
   
• Liar, Liar, Pants on Ceasefire
  Barry Rubin
   
• Leveraging the Clintons
  Jacob Laksin
   
• Dangerous Foes Await the Obama Administration
  Tim Collie
   
• Russia Starts S-300 Missile Supplies to Iran - Iranian MP
  RIA Novosti
   
• Iran to Take Delivery of S-300 Air Defense System Soon
  Tehran,  IRNA
   
• Sarkozy Drops Reform Amid Fears of Riots
  Matthew Campbell
  The London Times
   
• Obama Picks Military Man, Blair, as Top Spymaster
  The Wall Street Journal
   
• Russia develops new monstrous ballistic missile for USA
  Pravda
   
• Obama to create Iran outreach post
  Eli Lake
  The Washington Times
  
   
• Odierno Gives First View of Iraq Pullout
  The Associated Press
   
• Russia Hopes for U.S. Dialogue with Iran Under Obama
  RIA Novosti
   
• Regime-Change Works
  Will Obama Heed Realities?
  Claudia Rosett
   
• USA Believes Russia Threatens its Interests All Over the World
  Pravda
   
• Russia's Military Presents in Lebanon
  Russia Today
   
• Tahdiya: Calm Before the Palestinian Storm?
  Tally Aharony
   
• Paris Did Not Show the Courtesy of a Host
  Tehran Times Political Desk
   
• Russia to donate 10 MiG-29 fighters to Lebanon
  RIA Novosti
   
• Neighbors / Showtime for General Aoun
  Zvi Bar'el
  Haaretz
   
• Syrian–Israeli Peace: A Possible Key to Regional Change
  Paul Salem
   
• Treasury Designates Bank Melli Front Company in New York City
  US Department of the Treasury
  Press Room
   
• Sarkozy to visit Lebanon - but not Syria, sources say
   
• Secretary Condoleezza Rice
  The US Department of State
  Remarks With Quartet Members
  United Nations Headquarters
  New York City
   
• The Return of Realpolitik in Arabia
  Bush's 'diplomacy of freedom' gives way to Obama's caution and reticence. The Middle East may test our fatigue.
  Fouad Ajami
   
• India Is a Key Ally in the War on Terror
  Obama has a chance to build on sound Bush diplomacy
  Douglas J. Feith
  The Wall Street Journal
   
• Barak a Hamas Asset
  Colonel (Res.) Yehuda Wegman
   
• In Lebanon, Jimmy Carter Dishes on Obama's Israel Policy
  Borzou Daragahi in Beirut
   
• Ehud Olmert prepares for trip to London amid corruption allegations
  The London Times
   
• Task of forging Mideast peace falls to new players
  Steven Gutkin
   
• Why Hezbollah stiffed Carter
  Franklin P Lamb
   
• "Smarter Bombs" Will Allow Israel to Hit Lebanon With Impunity
  Andrew Wander
  The Daily Star
   
• Israel's Land Giveaway
  by Jeff Emanuel
   
• New Iranian Danger: Is Iran Setting Up Bases around the World?
   
• Obama Faces CIA Appointment Dilemma
  Top Obama Pick Bows Out After Progressives Question Stance on Rendition
  By Spencer Ackerman
   
• Russia's Open Airspace Can Become Priceless Gift to NATO
  Pravda
   
• Beyond Iraq
  A New U.S. Strategy for the Middle East
  Richard N. Haass and Martin Indyk
  The Brookings Institution
   
• Al-Qa`ida’s Presence and Influence in Lebanon
  Bilal Y. Saab
   
• Lebanese Army To Receive 66 US Tanks by May 2009
  Text of report by Jo Ma'karun
  Al-Safir
   
• Time to stop Peres
  President Peres’ endorsement of dangerous Saudi peace initiative must be resisted
  Adi Mintz
   
• Israel’s Choice
  Janet Levy
  Maj-Gen. Paul E Vallely
   
• Freedom's Edge
  Iran's Power At The United Nations
  Claudia Rosett
   
• A Concert-Balance Strategy for a Multipolar World
  Michael Lind
   
• Bush Suffers Defeat in Somalia
  Patrick Seale
  Failed Terror Attack
  Spiegle
   
• Kouchner Invites Mottaki to Paris Meeting
  Tehran Times
   
• Essay: Doing What is Doable
  Uzi Arad
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• Ex-American Policy Maker: Iran-US Interests 'Partially Congruent'
  London,  IRNA
   
• Reagan, Gorbachev and Bush at Governor's Island
  Previously Secret Documents from Soviet and U.S. Files
  On the 1988 Summit in New York, 20 Years Later
  The National Security Archive
  George Washington University
   
• Mashaie: Zionism's Annihilation Should Turn Into a Global Cause
  IRNA
   
• Russian Church to Elect New Patriarch
  Kommersant
   
• President Bush:Today’s More Capable Military Must Continue Worldwide Offensive
  Jim Garamone
  American Forces Press Service
   
• A SPIEGEL interview with Bruce Riedel
   
• Syria Sees Iraq-US Pact as Threat
   
• Ayatollah Khamenei : Mideast, Asia, Africa Witnessing Victories
  Arafat Desert, IRNA
   
• Russia Against U.S. Missiles in any European Anti-Missile Plans
  RIA Novosti
   
• Ethiopian Army Sets Up New Bases in Somalia
  Voice of America - Nairobi
   
• India's Response to Mumbai Attack
  Robert Maginnis
   
• Zbigniew Brzezinski: Israel's Push for Iran Strike May Hurt U.S. Ties
  Natasha Mozgovaya, Haaretz
   
• The Counterinsurgents’ Defense Secretary
  Gates Lays Out the Emerging Strategy of the Obama Administration
  Spencer Ackerman
   
• Deflater of defeatist discourse
  Reuven Pedatzur
   
• Russian Warship Crosses Panama Canal for First Time Since WWII
  RIA Novosti
   
• Obama's Blindspot
  William R. Hawkins
   
• The Guardians of the Cedars Party communiqué:
   
• The Saudis' New Man in Congress
  Paul Sperry
   
• Bush Scolds Iran, Syria in Mideast Speech
   
• Help Me Give America a Tax Holiday
  by Rep. Louie Gohmert
   
• Foreign Policy Advisory Index
  The National Interest
   
• How a Murder Investigation Could Snarl Mideast Peace
  By Nicholas Blanford
  The Christian Science Monitor
   
• Obama Must Rescue the Two-State Solution
  Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski
  The Daily Star
   
• India's 9-11
  Jed Babbin
   
• Iran and Syria: Why This Unlikely Alliance Endures
  Emile Hokayem
   
• Obama’s New Foreign Policy Team Looks Toward Syria
  Nathan Guttman
   
• Radio Interview with Maj Gen. Paul Vallely
  Iran & the Obama Administration
   
• Israel "Prepared to Attack" Iran Nuclear Plants
  The London Times
   
• Obama Urged to Quickly Engage Iran, Syria
  Jim Lobe
   
• Interview with George Soros
  Spiegel
   
• Experts warn Barack Obama of 'hornet's nest' in Middle East
  The London Times
   
• Start With Syria
  A Middle East Deal Obama Could Build On
  Aaron David Miller
   
• Where is Egypt Headed?
  Daniel C. Kurtzer
   
• The Army of Mohammad on the Attack
  Clare M. Lopez
   
• Taliban are "Patriots,' says Pakistani Army Official"
  Bill Roggio
   
• The West Rethinks its Afghan War Strategy
  Patrick Seale
   
• International Arms Dealer and Cohort Convicted on Terrorism Offenses
   
• The Region: India and Israel: The Parallels
  Barry Rubin
   
• Iran Advises New US Administration not to Fall in Bush Trap
  IRNA
   
• Barack Obama's Security Team Delights the Hawks
  Tom Baldwin in Washington
  The London Times
   
• Obama’s First Test?
  The Washington Independent
   
• Bush to Olmert: Why Are You Giving Syria the Golan for Nothing?
  By Aluf Benn
  Haaretz
   
• India Is Pointing in the Right Direction
  Claus Christian Malzahn
  Spiegel International
   
• An F for Bush's Iran Policy
  By David Ignatius
  The Washington Post
   
• Report: Siege at Taj Hotel Over in India
  Newsmax
   
• Terrorists Slam Indian Gate
  Kommersant
   
• U.S. Accuses Syria of Copying Iran Nuclear Cover-Up Tactics
  Reuters
   
• Bloody End to the Siege of Bombay
  The London Times- Update
   
• Bombay Gunmen Resist Commando Assault
  The London Times
   
• Behind Mumbai
  Robert Kaplan
   
• American Carrots for Syrian Sticks?
  Matthew RJ Brodsky
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• The Real Issue in Hebron
  Moshe Arens
   
• The Future of the Peace Process: A Palestinian Perspective
  Featuring:
  Maen Areikat, Rami Dajani & Khaled Elgindy
  Dec 4 2008 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
  
   
• Tying US Defense Spending to GDP: Bad Logic, Bad Policy
  Travis Sharp
  Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation - Washington, D.C.
   
• German Foreign Minister Wary of NATO Expansion
  Spiegel International
   
• IAEA Overrides U.S., Clears Syria Nuclear Aid Plan
  Mark Heinrich
   
• Foreign Policy Challenges for the New Administration
  John R. Bolton
   
• Foreign Traces in the Strange War
  Kommersant
   
• Meeting Medvedev Halfway
  Patrick J. Buchanan
   
• Lebanon Enjoys Strategic Position in Region: Speaker
  IRNA
   
• Hope and Change for Moscow ?
  Brooke Leonard
   
• On the Brink of an Atomic Tehran
  Robert Maginnis
   
• Our World: Time for the Real Bush to Stand Up
  Caroline Glick
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• The Region: Don't Flatter Your Enemies, Protect Your Friends
  Barry Rubin
   
• Civilization Walks the Plank
  Caroline Glick
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• Israel Fears US Will Dither While Iran Goes Nuclear
  Uzi Mahnnaimi, Tel Aviv
  The London Times
   
• Defense Establishment Paper: Golan for Syria Peace, Plan for Iran Strike
  Barak Ravid
  Haaretz
   
• Syria's Reactor: Can the IAEA Act Effectively?
  Patrick Clawson and David Schenker
  The Washington Institute
   
• Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World
  National Intelligence Council
   
• Syrian Leader Wants Golan so He Can Shift to New Model of Conflict with Israel
  Guy Bechor
   
• Generation Faithful
  Hezbollah Marshals the Young via Scout Troops
  By Robert F. Worth
  The New York Times
   
• Iran, Turkey to Finalize Gas Deal Soon, Minister
  IRNA
   
• Syria and UK 'Share Intelligence'
  BBC
   
• Remarks and Q&A by the Deputy Director of National Intelligence For Analysis & Chairman, National Intelligence Council
  Dr. Thomas Fingar
  The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
   
• Syria: Report says Britain Hammers out Damascus Intelligence Agreement
  Los Angeles Times
   
• Suspect Group Asks Obama to Stop Pressuring Iran
  Kenneth R. Timmerman
   
• David Miliband Arrives on a Mission to Turn President Assad into a Partner for Peace
  James Hider in Jerusalem
  The London Times
   
• Facing the Angry Ducks
  Jed Babbin
   
• What Would You Advise President Elect Barack Obama if You Were His Economic Guru?
  Ziad K. Abdelnour
   
• Livni vs. Netanyahu: From One Election to the Next
  David Makovsky
   
• Islamists Taking Over Somalia
  Akwei Thompson
  Voice of America
   
• The Case of the War between Israel and Hizbullah in 2006
  The Middle East Institute Policy Brief - October 2008
   
• Ayatollah Khatami: Inter-Faith Meeting Aims to Normalize Ties with Israel
  Tehran, IRNA
   
• What Europe Wants from Obama:
  “Democracy” for Gantanamo and “Human Rights & Red Carpet” for the rioters that burned Paris
  Spiegle International
   
• OPEC Redux: Responding to the Russian-Iranian Gas Cartel
  Ariel Cohen
   
• Barack Obama Links Israel Peace Plan to 1967 Borders Deal
  Uzi Mahnaimi in Tel Aviv and Sarah Baxter
  The London Times
   
• Britain in Push to Bring Syria in From the Cold
  Anne Penketh, Diplomatic Editor
   
• New Missile Marks 'Significant Leap' for Iran Capabilities
  Lauren Gelfand and Alon Ben-David
  Janes
   
• Column One: The Perils Ahead
  Caroline Glick
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• Nicolas Sarkozy Calls for Rethink Over US Missile Defence System in Europe
  David Charter in Nice
  The London Times
   
• Syria Heartened by Obama's Plan for Iraq: Envoy
  Louis Charbonneau
   
• CIA: "If There is a Major Strike on [the US ], it Will Bear the Fingerprints of Al-Qaeda"
   
• Temperament, Style Set McCain, Obama Apart on Military Issues
   
• "Our Stories are Singular, but Our Destiny is Shared"
  Doctora Bouthaina Shaaban
  Asharq Alawsat
   
• Background Briefing with Senior U.S. Officials on Syria’s Covert Nuclear Reactor and North Korea’s Involvement
   
• Israeli Bombs Are Source of Uranium at Shelled Site, Syria Says
  By Massoud A. Derhally
  Bloomberg
   
• The President's Role in National Security Teams
  Interviewee: David J. Rothkopf, Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  Interviewer: Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
   
• U.S.-Europe Relations: An Address by Bernard Kouchner, Foreign Minister of France
  The Brookings Institution
   
• The United States, Israel, and Iran: Defusing an “Existential” Threat
  Chuck Freilich
   
• Russia Threatens Missile Staging Over U.S. Plans
  Nat Helms
   
• Moscow Won’t Cooperate on Missiles
  Kommersant
   
• Barack Obama Looks to Iran to Help Bring Peace to Afghanistan
  President-elect Barack Obama is planning to involve Iran in a major shift in US policy on the war in Afghanistan.
  By Alex Spillius in Washington
   
• Interfaith, Oil, and Afghanistan: Where Saudi and U.S. Interests Diverge
  By Simon Henderson
  The Washingon Institute
   
• Was the U.S. Right About Syria Nukes?
  By Andrew Lee Butters
  Times
   
• Russia to Sell Heavy Arms to Lebanon
  Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
   
• Obama's National Security Challenges
  Robert Maginnis
   
• The Iran-Saudi Cold War
  James Brazier
   
• Syria's Assad Criticizes Proposed US-Iraqi Security Pact
  Voice Of America
   
• Planning an Invasion of Lebanon?
  Olivier Guitta
  Middle East Times
   
• The Region: A Letter to the President-Elect
  Barry Rubin
   
• Moscow to Host Mid-East Conference
  Russia Today
   
• The Iskander Factor
  Kommersant
   
• Will Obama Protect and Defend?
  Ret Lt. Col. Oliver North
   
• Middle East Tops List of Joint Chiefs’ Concerns, Mullen Says
  American Forces Press Service
   
• The Culture War and Barack Obama
  Bill O'Reilly
   
• Presidential Transitions and Foreign Policy
  Author: Toni Johnson
   
• No Rose Garden for Obama
  President Obama will be facing greatest challenges, threats since 1930s
  Yoram Ettinger
   
• Obama Aims to Engage Foreign Allies, Adversaries
  Jay Solomon
  The Wall Street Journal
   
• Syria Hopes Obama to Change U.S. Foreign Policy
  Xinhua
   
• Understanding Syria-Iran Alliance
  Marwan Kabalan
   
• IDF Concludes Drill Simulating War with Syria and Lebanon
  Amos Harel
   
• The Treatment of Bush Has Been a Disgrace
  What must our enemies be thinking?
  Jeffrey Scott Shapiro
  The Wall Street Journal
   
• Russia Warns of Missile Deployment
  Ellen Barry and Sophia Kishkovsky
  International Herald Tribune
   
• Can a Nuclear Iran Be Contained or Deterred?
  Michael Rubin
   
• US Must Not Violate Iranian Airspace: Army
  IRNA
   
• Election Thoughts
  Michael Ledeen
   
• Why the Next U.S. President Will Be a Wartime Leader
  Michael Eisenstadt
   
• ‘Election Gives U.S. Opportunity to Revise Iran Policy’
  Tehran Times Political Desk
   
• US Attack in Syria
  Are More Cross-Border Attacks on the Way?
  Cordula Meyer and Bernhard Zand
   
• Questions Raised Over Syrian Complicity in US Raid
  Syria has denounced a US strike on its territory but sources say Damascus secretly backed the raid
  Marie Colvin and Uzi Mahnaimi
  The London Times
   
• The Future of Oil
  Patrick Seale
   
• Recent US Moves Show Syria that Supporting Jihadists Comes at a Price
  Trevor Royle
  The Sunday Herald
   
• Iran Threatens U.S. With Suicide Bombers
  Newsmax
   
• U.S. Raid Into Syria Sent Two Messages
  Robert Maginnis
   
• Spy Chief Warns US Vulnerable in Next President's First Year
  Voice of America
   
• McCain for President,
  Part 2
  Charles Krauthammer
   
• Security Should Be the Deciding Issue
  Frederick W. Kagans
   
• Libya 'Ready to Host Russian Naval Base'
  RIA Novosti
   
• Duplicity in Damascus
  David Schenker
  The Washington Institute
   
• Comrade Obama?
  Patrick J. Buchanan
   
• Seven Questions for Syrian Ambassador Imad Moustapha
  Foreign Policy
   
• US Mulling Over Next Move Against Syria
  Press TV
   
• Syrian Haven for Killers, Then and Now
  Rafael Medoff
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• Saudi Angle on U.S. Elections
  Bernard Haykel
  Middle East Strategy at Harvard
   
• Iran's Al-Quds Octopus Spreads its Arms
  Yaniv Berman
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• Twilight Struggle
  In its closing days, the Bush administration escalates the war on terror.
  by Eli Lake
  The New Republic
   
• Don’t Appease Iran
  Should Obama win elections, he must not repeat pre-World War II mistake
  Ophir Falk
   
• Israel’s Long Term Survival Means Regime Change in Lebanon and Syria
  Professor M. Kahl
  Director, Lebanese Foundation for Peace
   
• Hitting Syria, Five Years Late
  Soliciting Assad was one of Bush's biggest war mistakes
  The Wall Street Journal
   
• US Says Curbing Iran's Nuclear Program in Moscow's Interest
  David Gollust
   
• U.S. Resupplies Lebanon Military to Stabilize Ally
  Robert F. Worth and Eric Lipton
   
• Know Your Enemy: Obama and Ahmadinejad
  By Amir Taheri
   
• Capitalism in Crisis
  Lee Hudson Teslik
   
• U.S. Seeking to Drive Wedge Between Iraqis Through Security Deal: Iran
  Tehran Times Political Desk
   
• What Could Lie Behind Syria Raid?
  Jonathan Marcus
  Diplomatic correspondent, BBC News
   
• A Warning Syria's President Assad Must Heed
  By James Hider
  The London Times
   
• Lebanese Hezbollah denies connection with Colombian drug ring
   
• Breaking The Iran-Syria Link
  U.S. Should Lend Push To Israel-Syria Talks
  Trudy Rubin
   
• McCain for President
  Charles Krauthammer
   
• Messiah Deficit Disorder
  by Oliver North
   
• The US-Iranian Contest over Iraq
  by Patrick Seale
   
• "Assad is the next Sadat"
  By Roni Sofer
  Israel News
   
• Turkish-Syrian Relations: The Erdoğan Legacy
  Sami Moubayed
   
• "From Beirut to 9/11"
  by Robert C. McFarlane
  The New York Times
   
• Bush Plans to Establish U.S. Diplomatic Post in Iran
  By Warren P. Strobel
   
• 25 Years Later, America Fails Lessons of Beirut Marine Barracks Bombing
  Debbie Schlussel
   
• The Career of Prisoner No. 760
  Der Spiegel Staff
   
• US Strikes Kill Taliban Commander, Afghan Soldiers
  Bill Roggio
   
• Export Development Bank of Iran Designated as a Proliferator
  US Department of the Treasury : Press Room
   
• Rafsanjani Says Israel Lacks ‘Goodwill’ in Talks with Syria
  Tehran Times Political Desk
   
• When Iran Gives Advice
  By Tariq Alhomayed
  Asharq Alawsat
   
• Capital in the Capitol
  By Douglas Rediker and Heidi Crebo Rediker
   
• Russian Northern Fleet ships arrive in Turkey
  By RIA Novosti
   
• Gas Exporters Agree Deal for OPEC-Style Alliance
  Russia Today
   
• Taliban Beheads 30 Afghans
  Kabul, IRNA
   
• Syria Envoy: Future Generations Will Pay if Israel Scuttles Peace Talks
  Haaretz Service
   
• UN Resolution 1701: A View from Lebanon
  By Nicholas Blanford
   
• Powell's Coming Out Party
  By Lynn Woolley
   
• General Blind Spots
  Questioning Powell’s judgment and global perception
  By Claudia Rosett
  National Review Online
   
• A New Financial Order in the Making?
  By Ziad K. Abdelnour
  CEO ,Blackhawk Partners Inc.
   
• Stealing the Presidency: An Obama/ACORN Primer
  By Kyle-Anne Shiver
  The American Thinker
   
• Iran's Economy Runs Out Of Steam
  Michael Rubin
  Forbes
   
• Olmert Seeks to Part With Golan
  Hillel Fendel
   
• Report: Syria Could Host Russian Missiles
   
• Iran: Is Productive Engagement Possible?
  Karim Sadjadpour
  Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
   
• Israel Gets Real on Iran
  By Trita Parsi
   
• Ahmadinejad and the Wrong End of the Stick
  Amir Taheri
  Asharq Alawsat
   
• Syria's Choice
  by Hassan Mneimneh
   
• Syria's Blowback Problem
  The Boston Globe
   
• U.S. Cyber Warriors to Protect Georgia?
  Russia Today
   
• The Next President and the Middle East
  by Patrick Seale
   
• US Troops Backing McCain
  Military Time poll
   
• A Forum without a Future?
  By J. Scott Carpenter
  The Washington Institute
   
• What War with Iran in the Gulf Could be Like
  Asymmetry at Sea
  by Robert D. Kaplan
   
• Up North, Hothouse of Tension in Lebanon
  New York Times
   
• Extremists turn their wrath on Syria, Lebanon
  By Hugh Macleod
  Chronicle Foreign Service
   
• The Fog
  by Frederick W. Kagan
   
• New Russia-Venezuela Military Contract
  Kommersant
   
• The Reid-Pelosi-Obama (RePO) Team Vs. The Rest of America
  by Newt Gingrich
   
• Obama Is Right About Talking to Iran
  By Vali R. Nasr
   
• A Prayer for Lebanon
  By Elias Bejjani
   
• The Region: Why the Middle East is Sick
  By Barry Rubin
   
• Leaders Fooling the Public
  Former IDF Chief of Staff
  Lt Gen Moshe Yaalon
   
• The New Rules of the Game
  By Ephraim Halevy
  Former director of the Mossad  1998-2002
   
• Syria at the Door
  Security coordination agreement will eventually allow the Syrian regime to come back
  Hanin Ghaddar, NOW Staff
   
• The Ties That Bind
   
• Iran and US Eye Diplomatic Opening
  By Jon Leyne
  BBC News, Tehran
   
• Hezbollah: Lebanon’s Power Broker
  by Robert G. Rabil
  The Journal of International Security Affairs
   
• Time for a U.S.-Iranian 'Grand Bargain'
  By Flynt Leverett, New America Foundation
  with Hillary Mann Leverett, STRATEGA
   
• Spanish FM Moratinos During Visit to Syria, Lebanon:
  "The Unipolar World [Order] Has Come to an End"; "Syria Should Be Included in E.U. Framework";
  "I See [Syria] as My Home"
  MEMRI
   
• Is Sarkozy Also Helping Iran?
  By Tariq Alhomayed
  Asharq Al Awsat
   
• The Coming Train-Wreck in Lebanon
  By Caroline Glick
   
• Syria Forces in Refugee Camp Battle
  Al Jazeera
   
• Annual Report on the Assets in the U.S. of State Sponsors of Terror and the Other International Terrorism Program Designees
   
• The Curious Incident in Northern Syria and Its Potential Proliferation Implications
  Arms Control Association
   
• In Response to Abraham Rabinovich
  Article in the Jerusalem Post
  Looking for Humanity
  By Nagi N. Najjar
  Director, The Lebanese Foundation for Peace
   
• From Syrian Fishing Port to Naval Power Base: Russia Moves into the Mediterranean
  The Guardian
   
• Ehud Olmert Resigns via Moscow
  Kommersant
   
• National Defense University
  Speech Delivered by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, Washington , D.C.
   
• Syria Plays Hardball with the Saudis
  By Sami Moubayed
   
• House Cleaning in Damascus?
  By Olivier Guitta
  Middle East Times
   
• A New Strategy for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
  Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Moshe Yaalon
  Former Chief of Staff, Israel Defense Forces
   
• SYRIA: Al Qaeda Mastermind Said to be Captured
  Los Angeles Times
   
• Iran Votes for Obama
  Tariq Alhomayed
  Asharq Alawsat
   
• Russia Today
   
• The Challenges of the New World Order
  By Wolfgang Nowak
  Spiegle International
   
• Setting a Constructive Russia Agenda
  Interview with Steven Pifer, Brookings Institution
  Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor, CFR
   
• The Future of U.S. Military Aid to Lebanon
  By David Schenker
  The Washington Institute
   
• ANALYSIS
  Will Israel's Next War be a Repeat of Lebanon 2006?
  By Amos Harel
  Haaretz
   
• Syria Rejects Opening Military Sites to Atom Probe
  Tehran Time
   
• Stability in Lebanon Threatened, Again
  By David Schenker
  The Washington Institute
   
• Iran's Revolutionary Guards  A Rogue Outfit?
  Michael Rubin
  Middle East Quarterly
   
• 25 Years Later: We Came in Peace
  By Colonel Timothy J. Geraghty, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired)
   
• Damascus Renews Nuclear Activity
  Israel News
   
• UN Appeals for USD 20 mln to Help Syrian Drought Victims - United Nations
  KUNA
   
• Russia Must Protect its Arctic Interests - Russia Security Council
  RIA Novosti
   
• Quite a Few Nations Interested in Russia's Iskander-E Missiles
  Kommersant
   
• The ISI and Terrorism: Behind the Accusations
  CFR
  By Eben Kaplan, Associate Editor
  Jayshree Bajoria, Staff Writer
   
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  BBC
   
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  The Guardian
   
• Brief Talks With Syria Spur Speculation
  by Jim Lobe
   
• US Customs & Border Chief:
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  By Jeff Stein
   
• American Diplomats Meet Syrians in Sign of Thaw
  The Wall Street Journal
  By Jay Solomon
   
• Media Source Says 200kg of Explosives Used in Syria Car Blast
  Text of report by state-run Syrian news agency SANA news agency website, Damascus in Arabic 27 Sep 08
   
• Reading the Signs of the Syrian Bombing
  By Andrew Lee Butters
  Time
   
• Report: Top Syrian Officer Killed in Damascus Explosion
  Roee Nahmias
  Israel News
   
• EuCom Deploys Radar, Troops to Israel
  By Gayle S. Putrich - Staff writer
  Army Times
   
• Car Bomb Kills 30 in Damascus
   
• ANALYSIS - Damascus Car Bomb Another Blow to Syrian Security
  Turkey News
   
• The New Face of Israel?
  By Daniel Levy
   
• We Must Not Let History Repeat Itself
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  Alireza Jafarzadeh
   
• The Secret War on the Dollar
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• Bailout or Surrender?
  By Michael Reagan
   
• Assad Aide Killing Hurts U.N. Probe in Syria: Diplomats
  By Mark Heinrich and Sylvia Westall
  The Boston Globe
   
• Contact Man's Murder Delays Syria Nuclear Probe: IAEA
   
• Appease Iran?
  by Daniel Pipes
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• Fear of New Mid East 'Cold War' as Syria Strengthens Military Alliance With Russia
  The London Times
   
• Fears Grow in Lebanon as 10,000 Syrian Troops Arrive on the Border
  Nicholas Blanford in Hekr Janin
   
• The Trouble with Russia
  Barry Rubin
   
• Livni's Outlook: Political and Policy Options in Israel
  By David Makovsky
   
• How Syria's Assad Is Steering His Country out of Isolation
  Part I
  Deir Spiegel, By Erich Follath
   
• How Syria's Assad Is Steering His Country out of Isolation
  Part II: Torture Is on the Decline, but Harrassment of Dissidents Persists
  Deir Spiegel, By Erich Follath
   
• How Syria's Assad Is Steering His Country out of Isolation
  Part III: Can Syria Be Democratized?
  Deir Spiegel, By Erich Follath
   
• U.S., Israel Face Key Decisions
  by Lt Gen.Thomas G. McInerney
   
• "No Plan to Disarm Lebanon's Hezbollah"
   
• Ex-IDF chief: Israel Can't Avoid a Military Confrontation With Iran
  Reuters
   
• Go Silent, Go Deep”
  by Major Gen. Paul E. Vallely
  US Army (ret)
   
• How Does AP Cover Israeli Politics?
  Barry Rubin
   
• An End to the "Anglosphere?"
  Matthias S Klein
  The Guardian UK
   
• Al Qaida Intensifies Support From Syria
  Middle East Newsline
   
• Israeli Official Warns of Chemical Warfare Against Syria
  Mohammed Mar'i
  Arab News
   
• Syria Awaits Airbus Team in Move to Buy Jets
  By Andrew England in Abu Dhabi and Peggy Hollinger in Paris
  Financial Times
   
• Column One: It is Time to Act
  By Caroline Glick
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• IAEA Report on Iran - September 15th 2008
   
• The Petraeus Doctrine
  by Andrew J. Bacevich
   
• Lebanon Holds National Reconciliation Talks
  By Edward Yeranian
  Voice of America
   
• Treasury Designates Individuals and Entities Fueling Violence in Iraq
  US Department of the Treasury
  Press Room
   
• Ukraine's Pro-Western Ruling Coalition Collapses
  Tehran Times
   
• Russia eyes Mediterranean as alternative to Sevastopol naval base
  RIA Novosti
   
• Method in Their Madness
  Barry Rubin
   
• Airbus-Syria Deal To Skirt U.S. Sanctions Official Tells CBS News European Manufacturer To Supply State Carrier With 50 Jets
  CBS News
   
• Hamas Official Assassinated in Syria, Opposition Group Claims
   
• Exit Olmert
  by Fania Oz-Salzberger
  Forbes
   
• Babacan Says Fifth Round Of Israel - Syria Talks Will Be Held In Next Week
  Turkish Press
   
• Iran, Ecuador Sign Deal on Energy
   
• Report: Saudi Official Met Al-Zawahiri
   
• Madam Secretary - A Secure Israel is a Condition for Peace
  By Eli E. Hertz
   
• Iron Lady’ Tzipi Livni Set to be Israel’s New Leader
  The London Times
  by Uzi Mahnaimi, Tel Aviv
   
• Tzipi Livni is Preparing to End Talks with Syria if She Becomes Israel's New Prime Minister
  By Carolynne Wheeler in Tel Aviv
  The Sunday Telegraph
   
• Seeing Iranian Gains in the Caucasus
  by Greg Bruno
   
• Damascus in No Rush For Peace
  Institute for War & Peace  - London
   
• Assassination Raises Tension as Lebanon Seeks to Bridge Divide
  By Anna Fifield in Beirut
  Financial Times
   
• Seven Years After 9/11
  How Dangerous Is Al-Qaida?
  Reuven Paz, Israel: "A Worldwide Model for Both Terrorism and Insurgency"
  Spiegel On Line
   
• Cracks Seen in Lebanon's Ruling Coalition
  Published remarks by Druze leader Walid Jumblatt disparaging Sunni leader Saad Hariri are seen as a sign that he may break from the Western-backed alliance. But Jumblatt's office disputes the quotes.
  By Borzou Daragahi,
  Los Angeles Times
   
• Iran Says Will Stand by Palestine Until Final Victory
  Tehran Times
   
• Syria: Khurbet East Oil Field Production Exceeds 11,500 Barrels Per Day
  Al Bawaba
   
• Lebanese Islamist Sheikh Omar Bakri: Britain's Problem – 'Its Law Is Not the Law Sent Down by Allah'; Terrorism by Mujahideen is 'Blessed'; 'Within 20 Years, British Society Will Have A Muslim Majority'
  MEMRI
   
• Bush to discuss Lebanon, Iraq with Berlusconi next month
  KUNA
   
• Syria, Russia Resurrect Naval Fleet
   
• On the Recall of the Russian-American Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement from the US Congress
  Press Release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
  Information and Press Department
   
• Car Bomb Kills Senior Lebanese Politician
  The London Times
   
• Syria Accused of Plotting Return to Power in Lebanon
   
• Syria in Talks to Buy Airbus Jets as Sarkozy Visits Damascus
  By Andrew England in Damascus and Ben Hall and Peggy Hollinger in Paris
   
• Uncertainty Remains Over Israel-Syria Talks After Damascus Four-way Summit
  Xinhua
   
• Total Signs 3 Energy Deals with Syria
  Tehran Times
   
• Peres Proposes Direct Talks with Syria
  By Guy Dinmore in Cernobbio, Italy
   
• Assad Offers Israel Peace While Allying With Hizbullah
  by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
   
• Hezbollah 'Not to Lay Down' Arms
   
• French President Visits Syria
  By Lisa Bryant
  Voice of America
   
• Syria Warns of Global 'Disaster' if Iran Attacked
  Reuters
   
• Sarkozy in Damascus : French President Treads in Bush Absence
  By Andrew D. Bishop
   
• Iran's Most Useful Idiot?
  The New York Post
   
• French President Warns Iran''s Nuclear Arms Will Threaten Whole World
  KUNA
   
• Assad to Jerusalem: Dream or Reality
  Middle East Times
  By Yonah Alexander
   
• Assad’s Reckless Behavior
  Farid Ghadry advises Israel to stay away from negotiations with unreliable President Assad
  Farid Ghadry , President - Reform Party of Syria
   
• Russian Experts Check Bushehr Plant
   
• Between McCain and Obama, an Energy Gap
  by Robert Maginnis
   
• An Asymmetric Campaign
  by Jed Babbin
   
• A Syrian-Israeli Breakthrough?
  By David Ignatius
  The Washington Post
   
• Russia May Push Forward With S-300 Sales to Iran
  RIA Novosti
   
• If Russia Shows Interest in the Conflict
  By Zvi Bar'el
  Haaretz
   
• Hezbollah Warlord Was an Enigma
  By Borzou Daragahi and Sebastian Rotella
  Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
   
• LEBANON: Hezbollah Hands Over Helicopter Shooting Suspect
  Los Angeles Times
   
• Sarkozy to Make Landmark Syria Visit
  By Sana Abdallah
  Middle East Times
   
• Russia Threatens to Supply Iran with Top New Missile System as 'Cold War' Escalates
  By Phillip Sherwell in New York and William Lowther in Washington
   
• Moscow Eyes Naval Build up in West Asia
  The Hindu - India National Newspaper
   
• When History is Not Repeated
  By Caroline Glick
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• Attar: 4,000 Centrifuges Work at Natanz Enrichment Facilities
  IRNA
   
• Russia Links Its Help On Iran To Georgia Dispute
  Reuters
   
• Israel: Assad Not Serious About Peace
  The Jeruslem Post
   
• Iran Agrees Nigeria Nuclear Deal
  BBC
   
• Assad Working Post-Georgia World to His Advantage
  By Aluf Benn
  Haaretz Correspondent
   
• Assad Slapped in the Face
  Syrian leader thought Cold War is back, but Russia made it clear Assad was wrong
  By Guy Bechor
  Ynet
   
• Lebanese Army Helicopter Hit, Pilot Killed
  Reuters
   
• Knowing When to Strike
  By Israel Harel
  Haaretz
   
• Syria and Iran: An Alliance of Convenience
  The Huffington Post
  by Alon Ben Meir
   
• Syria Recovers Lebanon Not by War, But Diplomacy
  TrendNews - Near East Service
   
• Israel Only Understands Language of Weapon: President
  Tehran IRNA
   
• Gov't Must Act Now to Eliminate Rocket Threats Against Israel's Cities
  By Moshe Arens
  former Defense Minister of Israel
   
• Syria Rebuffs Arms Buildup Accusation
  Press TV
   
• Syria, Iran Warm to Russia as US Tensions Grow
  Syria Takes Advantage of Russia-U.S. Tensions; Iran May be Next
  By Sam F. Ghattas
   
• Our World: Three Guys, a Trailer and Israel's Survival
  By Caroline Glick
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• Fixing Our National Security Process
  By Robert Maginnis
   
• The Latest Syrian Miscalculation
  By Tariq Alhomayed
  Asharq Alawsat
   
• Dangerous Talks with Syria
  By Uzi Dayan and Jonathan Spyer
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• "Syria Dialogue Endangers Future Deal"
  By Rebecca Anna Stoil
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• Iran and Qatar and the Solution to Regional Problems
  Tariq Alhomayed
  Asharq Alawsat
   
• Russia, Syria Complement Each Other in Security Areas
   
• The Iranian Nuclear Challenge
  Efraim Inbar
  The Middle East Institute
   
• Under Moscow's Wing
  by James Denselow
  The Guardian
   
• Hubbub Over Syria
  The New York Sun
   
• Column One: Dominoes Anyone?
  By Caroline Glick
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• Dmitry Medvedev Met with President of Syria Bashar al-Assad
  Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
  Information and Press Department
   
• Syria Supports Anti-US Alliances
   
• Fear of New Mid East 'Cold War' as Syria Strengthens Military Alliance with Russia
  Kevin O’Flynn in Moscow and James Hider, Middle East Correspondent
   
• Russian Troops Dig In at Poti
  Associated Press
   
• Netanyahu: Government Crossed Red Line by Freeing 199 Palestinian Prisoners
  Israel Insider
   
• Assad Warns on US-Poland Deal
   
• "Israel must freeze ties with Syria"
   
• Our World: Iran's American Protector
  By Caroline Glick
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• Russia Considers Nuclear Missiles for Syria, Baltic
  Hürriyet, Turkey
   
• Q&A: Hezbollah's Triumph Is Blowback for Israeli Policy
  Interview with journalist and author Deborah Campbell
   
• Islamic Terror Cell 'May Have Been Plotting to Attack Queen'
  By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent
  The Sunday Telegraph
   
• Report: Syria Test Fires Series of Long-range Missiles
  By Yuval Azoulay
  Haaretz Correspondent
   
• Hezbollah, Sunnis Sign Deal on Unity
   
• Iran to Orbit Several Satellites by 2010
  RIA Novosti
   
• The US is Losing But the Winners are Unclear
  by Phyllis Benni
  The New Nation
   
• Lebanon:
  Hizbullah, Salafi group sign Memorandum of Understanding
  Al Bawaba
   
• Iran Strike Not an Option
  Tehran Shows us That Nuke Project is Huge Venture that Cannot be Destroyed
  Alex Fishman
   
• The Region: Israel's Grand Strategy
  By Barry Rubin
   
• Russia Back to the Future
  by Robert Maginnis
   
• Iran and Syria, in the Role of Russia
  By Itamar Rabinovitch
   
• "Brilliant And Brutal Display' Of Russia's National Game, Chess"
  Radio Free Europe
   
• The Russian-Georgian War: Implications for the Middle East
  Ariel Cohen
   
• Georgia: Abkhaz Forces Seize 13 Villages
  TBILISI
   
• Conflict Narrows Oil Options for West
  By Jad Mouwad
  The New York Times
   
• Georgia: Let's Not Start World War III
  By Mike Jackson
  The Sunday Telegraph
   
• Russia Digs in 20 Miles from Georgian Capital
  Mark Franchetti, outside Tbilisi
  The Sunday Times
   
• Crisis Looms in U.S.-Pakistan Relations
  by Patrick Seale
   
• Sticks, Carrots, and Nukes
  By Patrick Clawson
  The Guardian
   
• Russia's Ominous New Doctrine
  Strobe Talbott,
  President, The Brookings Institution
   
• Iran to Launch its First Satellite by Next Weekend - President
  RIA Novosti
   
• US: Quds, Hezbollah Training Iraqi Militia in Iran
  The International Herald Tribune
   
• Hezbollah Soldiers On
  by Greg Bruno
   
• Will Livni's Bubble Burst First?
  by Clare M. Lopez
   
• Musharraf Seen Quitting To Head Off Impeachment
  By Zahid Hussain and Peter Wonacott
  The Wall Street Journal
   
• The repeat of 1967?
  by Tzahi Hanegbi
   
• Vladimir Putin's mastery checkmates the West
  By Michael Binyon
  The London Time
   
• Putin’s Strategic Game
  By: Kenneth R. Timmerman
   
• Sister Syria
  Al Ahram
   
• Creeping Coup in the Land of Cedars
  By Mordechai Nisan
  The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
   
• Solving Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas
  by Hassan Abbas
   
• Assessing the Fight Against al-Qaeda
  The Washington Institute's for Near East Policy
  Featuring Ted Gistaro
   
• Treasury Designates Iranian Nuclear and Missile Entities
  Press Room- US Department of the Treasury
   
• Russia Had No Choice But Counterattack in S.Ossetia - Gorbachev
  RIA Novosti
   
• Syria Says It Seeks Peace With Israel to Regain Land
  By Massoud A. Derhally
  Bloomberg
   
• Warmer Lebanon-Syria Ties Puts Focus on Prisoners' Fate
  By Nicholas Blanford
  Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
   
• Lebanon Rush-Hour Bombing Kills 18
  The Guardian
   
• "Hezbollah Will Help Iran Fend Off Threats"
   
• Growing Syrian Influence Part of the New Lebanese Political Reality
  By Brenda Gazzar
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• The Candidates on U.S. Policy toward Russia
  Council of Foreign Relations
   
• SPECIAL REPORT:
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  By Claude Salhani
  Middle East Times
   
• The Battle for Upper Kodori
  Kommersant
   
• There is Consensus in Iran Over Illegitimate Nature of Israel
  IRNA
   
• Russian Invasion of Georgia Is an East-West Tipping Point
  by Robert Maginnis
   
• Lebanon Announces “National Unity Gov't”
  'US Feels Weakness to Face Iran'
   
• Venezuela, Iran to Loan Bolivia $225,000,000 for Cement Firm: Official
   
• Syria Bars Repeat Visit By Nuclear Experts From The United Nations
  
   
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  J. Halevi  A Perry
   
• In Georgia Clash, a Lesson on U.S. Need for Russia
  By Helene Cooper
  The New York Times
   
• Report: Israel, Iran Fighting Over Syria
  Roee Nahmias
  Israel News
   
• Is This the First War Between Russia and a Former Soviet State?
  By Christian Neef and Matthias Schepp
  Spiegle International
   
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  By Sawsan Abu-Husain
   
• Georgia: Russia 'Invades New Province' as South Ossetia Conflict Escalates
  By Angus McDowall
  The Sunday Telegraph
   
• Georgia Is under Martial Law, Tskhinvali Is under Kokoity
   
• The Hariri Investigation and the Politics of Perception
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• Inside Iran's Garden of Diplomacy
   
• Collapse of the Middle East Peace Process
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  Middle East Newsline
   
• Beware the Syrians
  Smadar Peri
  Ynet
   
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  Spy Case Casts Light on Hezbollah Recruitment in Germany
  By Ulrike Putz in Beirut
  Spiegle International
   
• How to Secure the Organic Architecture of Exile
  Lebanon’s Palestinian Ghetto Redesigned
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  Le Monde Diplomatique
   
• Syria: A Crossroads For Terrorism
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  CBS News DAMASCUS, Syria
   
• Syrian General's Killing Severs Hezbollah Links
  The London Times
   
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  Ron Ben-Yishai
   
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  By Robert Fisk
  The Independent
   
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  by Jonathan Schanzer
   
• Coping with the Challenge of Iran
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  The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
   
• Who Will Be Israel’s Next Leader?
  By Robert Maginnis
   
• Iran Threatens to Shut Gulf Shipping Lanes
  by Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent
  The Telegraph-UK
   
• Top Syrian Military Official Assassinated
  By Hannah Strange
   
• Chavez Warns U.S. After Getting Russian Warplanes
  RIA Novosti
   
• Lebanon Manifesto Backs Hezbollah Rights: Sources
  Tehran Times
   
• 3 Questions for Candidates
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  Gilad Sharon
   
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  Hanan Greenberg
   
• IRGC Tests New Advanced Weapon
  IRNA
   
• Iran, Syria Reiterate Strategic Alliance
  Alalam
   
• Assad in Tehran: Talks with Israel Won't Affect Relations with Iran
  Ynet
   
• Gas Deal Row
  Israel Concerned over Germany-Iran Deal
  Spiegel On Line
   
• 'Bomb Bomb Iran'? Not Likely
  By David Ignatius
  The Washington Post
   
• Syria Closes in on Peace Deal with Israel
  Uzi Mahnaimi in Tel Aviv
   
• Separation Anxiety?
  Bassel Oudat
  Al Ahram
   
• Lebanon Backs Hezbollah's Arms
  Al Jazeera
   
• Olmert's Announcement Fuels Uncertainty in Israel
  By David Makovsky
   
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  Ynet and Reuters
   
• Ahmadinejad: Iran Will Use Force To Defend Nuclear Program
   
• Kadima's Legacy of Nothingness
  By Caroline Glick
   
• Revealing the CIA’s Secrets
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• Involving Gulf Region in War Will be Costly to US - Larijani
  Kuwait News Agency
   
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  Kommersant
   
• “The U.S. Can Help Tackle Syrian Corruption”
  By Andrew J. Tabler
   
• Strike on Iran Still Possible, U.S. Tells Israel
  By Paul Richter and Julian E. Barnes
  Los Angeles Times
   
• America's Bioterrorism Nightmare
  Mark Silverberg
   
• The Axis of Pragmatism
  By James Denselow
  The Guardian-UK
   
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  By John R. Bolton
  Los Angeles Times
   
• May an American Comment on Israel?
  By Daniel Pipes
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• The Role of Arms: From Gaza to Lebanon
  Al-Hayat
   
• Talking Into the Sunset
  By David Ignatius
  The Washington Post
   
• Iran Executes 29 Convicted Criminals in Jail Hangings
  RIA Novosti
   
• Massive Naval Exercise Underway Off US Coast In Possible Preparation For Strike On Iran
  Infolive TV
   
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  By Caroline B. Glick
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• The Third Lebanon War
  By Mark Silverberg
   
• Turning a New Page
  Al Ahram
   
• The Obama-Bush Presidency
  By Caroline Glick
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• Iranian Military Convoy Rocked by Mystery Explosion
  By Con Coughlin
  The Telegraph UK
   
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  By Sen. John McCain
   
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  Israel Failed to Win Lebanon War Because it Declared War on Wrong Enemy
  Maj-Gen (Res) Giora Eiland
   
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  Mary Katharine Ham
   
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  RIA Novosti
   
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  By Michael Young
  Daily Star staff
   
• Can Lebanon's March 14 Reverse the Tide?
  By David Schenker
  The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
   
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  Reuters
   
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  Yitzhak Benhorin
   
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  The Huffington Post
   
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  By Michael Bergman
  The Boston Globe
   
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  By Moshe Arens
   
• Now Bush Is Appeasing Iran
  By Michael Rubin
  The Wall Street Journal
   
• A Battle Over "The Next War"
  Los Angeles Times
   
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• Ralph Peters is Wrong About Rumsfeld
  by Wayne Simmons
   
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  By Lebanese Hezbollah Al-Manar Television, Beirut, in Arabic
   
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  by Patrick Seale
   
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  by Stephen F. Hayes
   
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  The Wall Street Journal
   
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  RIA Novosti
   
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  Brian Hendler
   
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  Gershom Gorenberg
   
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  By Andrew Cochran
   
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  By Nicholas Blanford
  Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
   
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  Boston Globe
   
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  By Huda al Husseini
   
• Hizbullah's Next Pretext
  By Evelyn Gordon
   
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  By Gerhard Spörl
   
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  Spiegel
   
• Sarkozy's PR Triumph
  by Patrick Seale
   
• US Plans to Station Diplomats in Iran for First Time Since 1979
  The Guardian
   
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  By Stewart Stogel
   
• 5 Lebanese Militants Freed in Exchange with Israel
  The Associated Press
   
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  RIA Novosti
   
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  Tehran Times
   
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  By Richard N. Haass
  Middle East Strategy at Harvard
   
• The Peace of Kissing Hands
   
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  By Robert Fisk
   
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  Haaretz Editorial
   
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  By Zvi Bar'el, Haaretz
   
• French Slam Syria's President Bashar al-Assad Over Lebanon
  By Henry Samuel in Paris
  The Telegraph UK
   
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  Ynet
   
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  By Katrin Benhold
  The New York Times
   
• Syria: Attack on Iran Will Have Dire Consequences
  By Henry Samuel
  The Daily Telegraph
   
• Israeli Doubts Over Syria Peace
  By Jonathan Marcus
  BBC diplomatic correspondent, Jerusalem
   
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  The Sunday Times
   
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  JTA
   
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  Haaertz
   
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  By Dr. Aaron Lerner
   
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  By Hussein Dakroub
   
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  Assad will remain ally of Iran, despite US sanction
  The Guardian
   
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  ABC News
   
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  By: Louis Rene Beres
   
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  By Henry A. Kissinger
  The Washington Post
   
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  RIA Novosti
   
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  Tim Shipman in Washington
   
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  By Carolynne Wheeler in Jerusalem
  The Sunday Telegraph
   
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  Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror
   
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  MK Dr. Yuval Steinitz
   
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  By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad
  The Independent
   
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  Middle East Strategy at Harvard
   
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• Syria: Direct Talks With Israel 'Premature'
   
• The Last Resort: Consequences of Preventive Military Action against Iran
  Patrick Clawson and Michael Eisenstadt
   
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  The Washington Institue for Near East Policy
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  Revitalizing our Efforts Rethinking our Strategies
  Co-Chairs:
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  Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering
   
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• Russia Says New Nuclear Security Rules Will not Affect Bushehr
   
• Hezbollah said to train Shiite militiamen in Iraq
  By Hamza Hendawi and Qassim Abdul-Zahra
   
• Deal Lets U.S. Drones Strike Bin Laden
  Musharraf Agreement Limits Pentagon
  Rowan Scarborough
   
• Military Strike on Iran 'Catastrophic'
   
• Spy Games in Iran
  U.S. Half Steps Mask Indecisive Policy
  By David Ignatius
  The Washington Post
   
• Analysis - Israeli Threats to Iran Seen as Bluff -- For Now
  Alistair Lyon
  Special Correspondent
  Reuters North American News Service
   
• Sarkozy to Meet Syria's Assad in Paris
   
• Drawing The French Battle Lines
  Newsweek
   
• France's New Military Vision
  by Michael Moran
   
• Pentagon: Israel may attack Iran before 2009
   
• A Look at Key Events in Lebanon-Israel Conflict
  The Associated Press
   
• Iran Reserves Right to Determine Response to Any Threat: IRGC
  Isfahan, IRNA
   
• Experts: Israel Must Stop Iran Nukes Within a Year, Sooner if Obama Elected
  Israel Insider
   
• Sarkozy’s Straight Talk Is Promising
  by Patrick Seale
   
• Syria Glitters, but Glare Hides Woes
  Troubled ties with U.S. , dwindling oil reserves affect psyche of nation
  By Liz Sly
  Chicago Tribune Correspondent
   
• Preparing the Battlefield
  The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran.
  by Seymour M. Hersh
  The New Yorker
   
• Iran's Race for Regional Supremacy
  Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Moshe Yaalon
   
• Yesterday Southern Lebanon & Gaza, today the Golan Heights
  The grand illusion of Israel’s Left political failure:
  Peace with Syria will wean Damascus from Tehran
  By Stan Goodenough
   
• "Iran Will Be Destroyed"
  Israel ’s Minister of National Infrastructure dwells on the situation in the region.
  Kommersant
   
• Special Report: Satellite Imagery Confirms Syrian Troops in Lebanon
  By Claude Salhani
  Editor, Middle East Times
   
• How Did Bush Policy Lead to a Deal with North Korea?
  By Warren P. Strobel
   
• When a Nation Loses its Wisdom
  by Israel Harel
  Haaretz
   
• Israeli Top Brass Split Over Plan to Hit Iran
  By Anshel Pfeffer
   
• Syria: Damascus Reviewing Ties with Iran, Say French Officials
   
• "Good Start" to UN's Syria Probe
  BBC
   
• Can Lebanon Douse Political Fires?
  By Nicholas Blanford
  Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
   
• Our Shameless Leaders
  The sickening Conduct in Relation to IDF Captives, MIAs
  by Alex Fishman
   
• It’s All About Ego
  Deficient Olmert-Barak relationship irresponsible and unforgivable
  by Nahum Barnea
• Do Multiple Negotiating Fronts Signal New Strategy for Israel?
  By Uriel Heilman
   
• Lavrov Sees New Cold War
  Kommersant
   
• Ready for Peace?
  By Shlomo Ben-Ami
   
• Emerging Crisis in Pakistan-U.S. Relations
  By: Tufail Ahmad
   
• Affirming the Saudi Will to Power:
  Domestic Challenges to King 'Abdullah
  By Joseph A. Kechichian
   
• Lebanon: Back on Track?
  Dr. Graeme Bannerman
   
• Emerging Crisis in Pakistan-U.S. Relations
  By: Tufail Ahmad
   
• Supplicants to Saudi Arabia: The Jeddah Energy Meeting
  By Simon Henderson
   
• Testimony of Amy Myers Jaffe
  Wallace S. Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies
  James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
  Rice University
   
• Iran Supports Unity Among Lebanese Factions: Larijani
  Tehran Times Political Desk
   
• The Wrath of Khan
  by William Langewiesche
   
• Fresh Clashes Resume in North Lebanon
   
• Darkness at the End of the Tunnel
  Penetrating the Iranian underground
  By Gabriel Schoenfeld
   
• The Regional Military Balance
  Yiftah S. Shapir and Shlomo Brom
   
• Arbitration on the Syrian Border
  Benn, Aluf
   
• Israel's Peace Efforts Widen
  Los Angeles Times
   
• Israel Opposes U.S. Arms Sale to Lebanon
   
• EXCLUSIVE: Hezbollah Poised to Strike?
  Officials Say "Sleeper Cells" Activated in Canada
  By Richard Esposito and Brian Ross
   
• U.S. Says Exercise by Israel Seemed Directed at Iran
  By Michael R. Gordon and Eric Schmitt
   
• US intelligence: Hizbullah Scouting Jewish Targets in Canada
  YNet
   
• Salafists Ascendant in the Arab World
  Khalil Al-Anani, Todd G. Patkin Visiting Fellow,
  Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy
   
• US Diplomat to Visit Syria on Iraqi Refugees
  By Matthew Lee
   
• US Eyes Alleged Venezuela-Based Hezbollah Helpers
  US imposes financial clamps on alleged Venezuela-based Hezbollah supporters
  By Jeannine Aversa
   
• Middle Ground:
  Lebanon Plays Buffer as Syria and Israel Simmer
  Janes
   
• Lebanon: Condoleeza Rice Wants to Resolve the Shebaa Farms Issue
  Los Angeles Times
   
• The Iranian Roots of Hizbullah
  By Dr. Nimrod Raphaeli
   
• Old Ties Exist Between Iran and Lebanon's Shiites
  By Sadegh Zibakalam
   
• Bush Threatens Iran with Military Action
  By Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor
  The Independent
   
• Column One: Peace with Friends
  By Caroline Glick
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• UN envoy: Israel Has Given Syria a 'Huge Gift' for Free
  By Barak Ravid - Haaretz
   
• Report: Assad Offered Incentives to Reexamine Ties with Iran
  Ynet
   
• Assad: Israel Wants to Talk Due to War Failures
  By Yoav Stern
   
• France Seeks to Bolster Syria Ties
   
• Lebanon – Dangerous Days
  inthenews.CO.UK
   
• Sadr to Form New Anti-US Army
   
• Energy in Danger
  Iran, Oil, and the West
  Simon Henderson
   
• Syria Sees Warming Ties in Middle East
  By Julien Barnes-Dacey
   
• Israel's Syria Card
  The Daily Iowan
   
• "Assad Invited to Paris Summit for Fulfilling Obligations"
  Ynet
   
• Ex-official Says DoD Nixed Iran Attack
   
• Russia’s Military to Secure Interests in Arctic
   
• US Cautious on French Plans to Renew Ties with Syria
  
   
• Talks with Syria to Resume Next Week
  Roni Sofer
   
• Strikes Against Iran may be 'Unavoidable'
  By W. Thomas Smith Jr.
   
• MK Eitam: Olmert Unfit to Order Gaza Operation
  Ynet
   
• Top Hizbullah Commander Captured in Iraq
  World Tribune
   
• The Belated Message from the IAEA on Iran
  Asculai, Ephraim and Landau, Emily B.
   
• Statecraft in the Middle East
  Dennis Ross
   
• Report: Israel, Syria Talks Set to Resume
  Ynet
   
• Middle Israel: Ehud Olmert: Preliminary Biographical Dilemmas
  By Amotz Asa-El
   
• View From America: Misgivings on the road to Damascus
  By Jonathan Tobin
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• Iran, Iraq Urge Expansion of All-Out Ties Tehran
  IRNA
   
• The Cocktail Napkin Plan for Regime Change in Iran
  by Laura Rozen and Dave Wagner
   
• Syria, Lebanon Forging New Relationship
  By Sana Abdallah ( Middle East Times)
   
• Ending (or Deepening) the Crisis in Lebanon : The Role of Electoral Reform
  By Jean-Pierre Katrib
  The Washington Institute
   
• Bush Welcomes End of Stalemate in Lebanon
   
• French Opposition to Join Sarkozy on Lebanon Trip
   
• Syria lost big in Lebanon
  By Rabbi Daniel M. Zucker
   
• Revival for Lebanon or the Beginning of the Shia Crescent?
  by Amir Kulick
   
• Revealed: Secret plan to keep Iraq under US control
  By Patrick Cockburn
  The Independent
   
• End of the Olmert Regime
  By Isi Leibler
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• Tissue From 5 Israeli Soldiers Identified in Remains from Lebanon
  The Associated Press
   
• Peace Fills a Vacuum
  By Hussein Agha and Robert Malley
  The New York Times
   
• Lebanon's Short, Sharp Conflict
  By Alain Gresh
  Le Monde Diplomatique
   
• Hizbollah’s Increased Strength: Risks and Opportunities for Israel
  By Shalom Zaki
   
• Group Makes Lebanon Blast Claim
   
• Golan Bluff
  Is the resumption of Syrian-Israeli talks a political gimmick or a serious effort by two countries in dire straits
  by Basel Oudat
   
• Syria to Seek Arab Consensus on Middle East Conflict Resolution
   
• News Analysis: Olmert Seen as Too Weak to Cut Peace Deal with Syria
  
   
• Lessons from Lebanon
  American Enterprise Institute
   
• Syria Seeks U.S. Role in Talks
  Israeli Negotiations Need Washington, Ambassador Says
  By Jay Solomon
  The Wall Street Journal
   
• Editorial: Rare Opening to Syria
  The Dallas Morning News
   
• Middle East, the Next Seven Months
  By Shmuel Rosner
  Haaretz
   
• U.S.-Iran Regional Power Plays Shift
  Iran's 'axis of resistance' may seem ascendant, but new chances for peace could redefine game in US's favor
  By Scott Peterson
   
• Hezbollah Triumphs in Lebanon
  By Daniel Steinvorth and Alexander Szandar
  Spiegel Online
   
• Washington Urges UN to Search for More Syrian Nuclear Sites
  US officials pressing IAEA to broaden scope of search in Syria after nuclear facilities
  Washington Post
   
• Syria-Bound Missile-Related Gear Was Seized in 2007
  By Viola Gienger
   
• Will the International Community Abandon Lebanon?
  That's for the Lebanese people to decide.
  By Shmuel Rosner
   
• Iranian Aid Seen Growing Among Militants on Israel's Flanks
  By Amy Teibel
   
• LEBANON: 'Resistance' to Israel Above All
  LA Times
   
• Syria's Assad Dismisses Israeli Demand on Iran
  by Khaled Yacoub Oweis
   
• Najjar: Iran, Syria Defense Cooperation at Highest Level
  IRNA
   
• Syrian/Israeli Peace Talks and Political Deal in Lebanon: Teleconference with Carnegie Experts
  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  Participants:
  Marina Ottaway, director, Carnegie Middle East Program
  Paul Salem, director, Carnegie Middle East Center (Beirut)
   
• Colombia the New Venezuela
  Bogota ready to buy Russian arms
  Kommersant
   
• Ahmadinejad Sure Syria Will Press Struggle Against Israel
  by Farhad Pouladi
   
• Hezbollah Has Warning for Lebanon's New Government
  By Hussein Dakroub
  Associated Press
   
• Lebanon President Praises Hizbollah's Fight Against Israel
  Telegraph.Co.Uk
   
• The Golan Heights and the Syrian-Israeli Negotiations
  By Dore Gold
   
• The Region: The Syrian talks aren't serious
  By Barry Rubin
   
• Diplomacy or Diversion?
  Amid Middle East Peace Talks, Political And Military Problems Cause Domestic Uncertainty In Israel
  By C. Hart
   
• Lebanon Elects Suleiman President as Hezbollah Gains
  By Daniel Williams & Will McSheehy
  Bloomberg
   
• Gunfire welcomes Lebanon's new leader, General Michel Suleiman
  Nicholas Blanford - Beirut
   
• The Fall of Lebanon
  By Barry Rubin
   
• Iran, Syria Consolidate Defense Ties
   
• Syria's Misguided Optimism
  Sami Moubayed
   
• Assad's Week of Triumph
  By Caroline Glick
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• What's Pushing Old Foes Israel and Syria to talk?
  By Ron Kampeas
   
• The Truth About Syria
  By Barry Rubin
   
• Gen. David Petraeus Says the Existence of Secret Nuclear Facilities in Syria is Troubling
   
• Lebanon Surrenders to Hizballah
  by Tom Rose
   
• Syria and Iran: Relationship at a Crossroads?
   
• Lebanese Crisis Ends: Hizballah Victory or Temporary Truce?
  By David Schenker
   
• Syria and Israel : Tactical Advantage
  Middle East Strategy at Harvard
  From Jon Alterman
   
• Hezbollah in Dangerous Territory
  By Jim Muir
  BBC News, Beirut
   
• Qatar Sets Lebanese Rivals Deadline
   
• The Heart of Lebanon's Strife
  Violence is rooted in the flawed 1943 power-sharing
  By Mohamad Bazzi
  The Christian Science Monitor
   
• Far from Home, a Plea to Neighbors
  Maronite Cardinal Tells of Countries' Threat to Lebanon
  By Bill Murphy
  Houston Chronicle
   
• America is Tired
  US Silence on Lebanon Coup Shows We Can Only Count on Ourselves
  Nahum Barnea
   
• Tehran is Winning
  by Robert Maginnis
   
• Lebanese Sunnis Bitter After Hezbollah Triumph
  By Sam F. Ghattas
   
• Tension Rises at Lebanon Crisis Talks
  AFP
   
• What Next in Lebanon?
  In the Wake of the Doha Truce Counterpunch
  By Karim Makdisi
   
• Hezbollah’s Actions Ignite Sectarian Fuse in Lebanon
  The New York Times
  By Robert F. Worth
   
• The Limits of War in Lebanon
  Boston.com
   
• Lebanon Politics: Square One?
  Country Briefing
  From The Economist Intelligence Unit
   
• The Betrayal of Lebanon
  Spectator UK
   
• Column One: Hizbullah's Power Play
  Caroline Glick
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• Iranian President Ahmadinejad: Israel's 'Disintegration' Imminent; Tells Bush On Lebanon: You Are Defeated, Bound For Extinction
  MEMRI
   
• Losing Lebanon
  Gershom Gorenberg
   
• Text of President Bush's Speech to the Israeli Parliament
  
   
• Israel 'Won't Dare Attack Iran'
  
   
• The Wrong Thinking, Wrong Strategy of Giora Eiland for Lebanon
   
• ANALYSIS-Hezbollah Deals More Damage to Bush's Credibility
   
• Ending Hezbollah's Tyranny of Lebanon: The US Role
  By Ziad K. Abdelnour
   
• Saudis sends sharp warning to Iran over Lebanon
  By Sam F. Ghattas
   
• Prolonged Crisis’ in Lebanon Reflects ‘Cold War’ in Region
  Counsil on Foreign Relations
   
• Bush Tour Diminished by Hezbollah Show of Force
  By Jim Lobe
   
• Our World: How Lebanon Was Lost
  By Caroline Glick
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• Surrendering to Hizballah
  By Andrew Lee Butters
  Time/Beirut
   
• Middle East: Are Iran, Syria Playing Any Roles In Lebanon Fighting?
  AFP
   
• Iran's Ambassador to Syria Says Israel in Worst Ever Condition
  IRNA
   
• Lebanon Clashes Move North as Beirut Unrest Eases
  Bloomberg
   
• The Region: As Lebanon Turns into Gaza
  By Barry Rubin
   
• Hezbollah Fighters Pile Pressure on Lebanon Rivals
   
• ANALYSIS / Who Will stop Hezbollah? Not the Lebanon Army
  Haaretz
   
• Lebanese Declaration Threatens Civil War
  By Hugh Macleod
  The Observer
   
• Ramon: Lebanon – a Hizbullah State
  Military Intelligence chief briefs government ministers on latest developments on northern border, following Hizbullah takeover of west Beirut. 'We have to realize reigning Lebanese government is fictitious,' says vice premier
  Ynet
   
• Fighting in Mount Lebanon Rages Between Pro, Anti-Government Supporters
  Ynet
   
• Hezbollah Battles Druze East of Beirut
   
• Renewed fierce clashes in Lebanon
   
• Showdown Between Hizballah and Beirut
  By David Schenker
   
• Foreign Ministry Says 30 Russians May Leave Lebanon May 13
   
• Siniora Slams Hizbullah “Coup”
  Ynet
   
• Al-Qaeda “Declares War on Hezbollah”
  Press TV
   
• Lebanon: Increasing Violence Raising U.S. Concerns Over Iran
  Radio Free Europe
  By Charles Recknagel
   
• Is This the Start of the Next Lebanese Civil War?
  Time – by Andrew Lee Butter
   
• Lebanon on the Brink as Violence Erupts
  Government has declared war, says Hizbullah, At least 10 killed and 20 hurt as clashes spread
  The Guardian
   
• Fighting Pushing Lebanon Toward Another Civil War
  Fierce eruption grim reminder of 1975-90 conflict
  
   
• Lebanon's political conflict turns violent
  By Tom Perry
   
• Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century: Implications for Homeland Security
  The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
   
• Joint Chiefs signal possible Iran strike
  World Tribune
   
• Anti-Government Strike Hits Beirut
   
• Medvedev handed control of Russia's nuclear weapons
   
• Ahmadinejad is Iran's Jim Jones
  by James Zumwalt
   
• Corruption:
  Foreign national to be deposed in scandal; major development expected today
  By Israel Insider staff
   
• John Bolton: US should bomb Iranian camps
  by Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent
  The Telegraph
   
• Don't be afraid of peace with Syria
  Ha'Aretz Editorial
   
• Washington Cool on New Israel-Syria Talks
  by Khody Akhavi
   
• The Syrian Nuclear Puzzle
  By Greg Bruno
   
• Legal source: Olmert in a problematic situation
   
• The Prospects for Syrian-Israeli Peace
   
• Cigarette Smugglers Funnel Money to Hizbullah, HAMAS, Qaida
  Fox News
   
• Israel's Traditional Elites
  Caroline Glick
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• Choices and Strategies for Dealing with Iran
  Official Testimony of Ambassador Dennis Ross to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security
  The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
   
• CIA: Syrian Reactor Capacity Was 1-2 Weapons per Year
  Reuters
   
• Samir Kuntar to Marry in Prison
  Israel News
   
• Iran, Russia Discuss New N-Package
   
• IAF Chief: Hitler Wasn't Believed, We Can't Make that Mistake with Ahmadinejad
  By Haaretz Service
   
• The Region: Stuck in the Middle Ages, Islam Targets Moderation
  By Barry Rubin
   
• US Should Have Shared Syria Nuclear Intel Earlier: Legislators
   
• U.S. Policy and Syria: Who's Converting Whom?
  Syria, Middle East, Arab-Israeli Relations, Iraq, Israel
  Peter W. Rodman, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy
   
• Top Russian Official Goes to Iran to Discuss Security
   
• Syria's Shadow Still Looms Large Over Lebanon
   
• Netanyahu: Olmert Acting Like an Amateur
  Ynet
   
• Background Briefing with Senior US Intelligence Officials
  Subject: Syria's covert nuclear reactor and North Korea's involvement
  
   
• White House: Syria Reactor Not for 'Peaceful' Purposes
  CNN
   
• Six-party Deal Under Threat as US Spills the Beans on North Korea
   
• Hugo Chavez Vows to 'Bury U.S. ' in 21st Century
  RIA Novosti
   
• Gates: Iranians Kill US Soldiers
  Press TV
   
• Al-Sadr may restart full-scale fight against US in Iraq
  Radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr moving toward all-out fight in showdown with Iraqi leaders
  Hamza Hendawi and Qassim Abdul-Zahra
   
• Understanding Chronology Of War And Terror In The Middle East
  Louis René Beres
  Professor of International Law
   
• Syria: Israel ready to return Golan
   
• U.S. Thinks N.Korea Aided Syria on Plutonium Program
   
• Petraeus Picked to Lead Mideast Command
  Gen. David Petraeus to be next commander of Mideast command
  Anne Flaherty
  AP News
   
• Caught in the Net: Syria
  Foreign Policy
   
• Sadr's in a JAM
  It looks like his militia got routed.
  by Tom Donnelly
   
• Don’t rush to Damascus
  Israel should accept US position on Syria instead of restoring to baseless fantasies
  By Zalman Shoval
   
• Syria gets Russian air-defense system
  Stratfor
   
• Israel: 60 years of hope and despair
  Sam Kiley
  The Observer
   
• As Iran Turns Irreversibly Nuclear
  Israel's Last Chance
  Louis René Beres
  Professor of International Law
   
• Citizen Carter’s Ego Trip
  by Lt Col Oliver North
   
• Winning Counterinsurgency War:
  The Israeli Experience
  By Major General (res.) Yaakov Amidror
   
• The Preemptive Strike Returns
  By Amir Oren
  Haaretz
   
• Ahmadinejad Hails Iran 's Military Power
   
• Hizbullah Militants Regroup Amid War Jitters
  The Lebanese Shiite group is recruiting Sunnis, training in Iran for a possible second war with Israel.
  By Nicholas Blanford
  Correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor
   
• Indonesia: Jemaah Islamiyah Suspects on Way to Syria When Arrested
   
• Risk of Nuclear Attack on Rise
  More Emergency Prep Could Be Done, Experts Tell Senate
  By Mary Beth Sheridan
  Washington Post Staff Writer
   
• Hamas' Useful Idiot
  by Robert Maginnis
   
• A Palestinian Civil War in Lebanon?
  Andrew Lee Butters
   
• Syria arming Hezbollah despite UN resolution: Israel
   
• Our World: What is a sufficient victory?
  By Caroline Glick
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• A Paradigm Shift: How Hizbollah Won the War
  By M. Shahid Alam
   
• The Region: 'Lennonism' paints the Middle East
  By Barry Rubin
   
• Countering Iran
  Tehran's 'special groups' in Iraq are just one element of a regional threat
  The Washington Post
   
• Netanyahu: Israel suffers from lack of leadership
  YNET
   
• J´accuse
  Dr. Joseph Hitti
   
• Israel concludes largest civil defence drill
  Africasia
   
• US/IRAQ: Calm on the Surface, Simmering Beneath
  Ali Gharib
   
• Bush, seeking to divide Jerusalem, will avoid "controversial" Kotel visit
  Israel Insider
   
• CAIR vs. the NYPD
  The Wahhabi lobby attacks.
  by Stephen Schwartz
   
• Netanyahu: 'We won't be able to deter nuclear Iran'
  By Jonathan Beck
   
• Syria: President's brother-in-law 'accused of US-backed coup'
   
• Hamas Confirms: Carter To Meet Terrorist Leader
  By Joseph Abrams
   
• Fars: Syria Arrests Saudi Official Over Mughniyeh Assassination
  RTT News
   
• China signs oil pact with Syria
   
• Hundreds flee fighting in Baghdad as showdown looms between government and Shiite militia
  By Robert H. Reid
  Associated Press
   
• Iran joined militias in battle for Basra
  Sarah Baxter and Marie Colvin
  The Sunday Times
   
• Damascus, Ramallah or Tehran
  By Amir Oren
   
• Our World: Covering for the enemy
  By Caroline Glick
   
• The Region: An Abbas of failure
  By Barry Rubin
   
• Eye on Lebanon:
  The presidential 'consensual candidate'
  Manuela Paraipan
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• The Second Iran-Iraq War
  By Kimberly Kagan
   
• Syria wants U.S. to facilitate 'billions' in business
  Also want to be primary American ally as region goes on war alert
  By Aaron Klein
   
• Crossfire War:
  Iran Denies Constructing Monitoring Stations, Syria Admits It
  By Willard Payne
   
• MIDEAST: Israel and Syria Flirt Dangerously
  Peter Hirschberg
   
• The Biggest Loser
  By Hussein Shobokshi
  Al Sharq el Awsat
   
• Lebanon, Hezbollah on full alert
  Press TV
   
• Petrofac wins $477m Syria gas deal
   
• Revenge for Mugniyah could ignite conflict in north
  YNET
   
• War Is Talk Of Syria And Israel
  By Benny Avni
  Staff Reporter of the Sun
   
• Clash of interests keeps Lebanon unquiet
  By Janine Zacharia
  Bloomberg
   
• Report: Syrian reservists called up for fear of Israeli strike
  Ynet
   
• McCain admits he was caught off guard by Basra offensive
  Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
   
• Syria says offer made to trade Lebanon polls for UN investigation
   
• Senior CPC official arrives in Syria
  China Economic Net
   
• Israel readies largest exercise ever to prepare for Iran-Syria missile war
  World Tribune
  
   
• The Region: When terrorism makes sense
  By Barry Rubin
   
• A New Report on Hariri's Murder
  Nicholas Blanford
  Time
   
• MK Netanyahu: I will not allow for the division of Jerusalem
  Roni Sofer
   
• UN officials: Syria still suspected in Lebanese PM murder case
  By Shlomo Shamir
  Haaretz Correspondent
   
• Why Arabs snub Syria
  What's Behind the Saudi Snub of the Syrian Summit?
  by Sara Moller
   
• Lebanon - a cold war getting hotter all the time
  by Alberto Cruz
   
• Genetic Signatures in Lebanon Traced Back to the Crusades
  Red Orbit
   
• Engaging Syria
  Robert Benson
   
• Fighting leaves crucial truce with Iraq militia in shambles
  By Seattle Times news services
   
• Countering Hezbollah & Supporting Gaegea's Criminal Enterprise are Two Different Realities
  A Doubtful US Initiative for Lebanon
  By Murray Kahl
  Director of the Lebanese Foundation for Peace
   
• Saudi King to Skip Arab Summit
  By Mariam Fam
  The Wall Street Journal
   
• Lebanon Shows Israel's True Face
  Iran News
   
• The Next President And the Middle East
  Some Policy Pointers: Get Out of Iraq
  By Daniel Levy
  New America Foundation
   
• Barzani slams Syria 's killing 3 Kurds
  Press TV
   
• Peres: No Golan handover
   
• A Tactical Move on the Chessboard
  By Osama Al Sharif
  The Gulf News
   
• Report: Iran buying missiles for Syria
  JTA
   
• Netanyahu: If we leave Jerusalem, Iran and Hamas will take control
  Ynet
   
• Clashes erupt in Lebanon camp
  Press TV
   
• Kurds shot dead in northern Syria
  BBC
   
• Time to change direction
  We need leadership that doesn’t convey sense of weakness or cling to flawed notions
  MK Benyamin Elon
   
• Nabucco Follies: State Department Shills for EU Pipeline to Carry Iranian Gas
  John Rosenthal
  World Politics Review
   
• State Department accused of shilling for Iran
  Foreign Policy
   
• Save summit from Syrians
  by Ahmed Jarallah
  Editor-in-Chief - The Arab Times
   
• Russia's Stroytransgaz to build 2nd gas refinery in Syria by 2010
   
• Israel to hold massive drill; Syria - War is possible
  Stan Goodenough
   
• UN police quit Kosovo town
  Dimitar Dilkoff  in Kosovo
  Agence France-Presse
   
• The Importance of Fallon’s Fall
  By Michael Barone
   
• Fear and gullibility as weapons
  Barry Rubin
   
• 'We are not enemies,' diplomat says of Syrian-U.S. relations
  The Grand Rapids Press
   
• Report: Assad's Brother-in-Law Behind Mughniyeh Death
  by Gil Ronen
  Israel National News
   
• SYRIA: Offering Lebanon an olive branch, or a booby trap?
  Los Angeles Times
   
• Column One: Musharraf's Israeli disciples
  By Caroline Glick
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• Iraqi fighters told to cease fire after clashes
   
• Hizbullah to support assassinated Jihad man's family
  Ynet
   
• Israel secretly warned Syria about Hezbollah
  Reuters
   
• Warriors welcome Fallon's resignation
  By Sara Carter
  The Washington Times
   
• Ahmadinejad: US, Israel plans failed in ME region
  Dakar - IRNA
   
• Lebanon's shattered dream
  Emile El-Hokayem and Firas Maksad
   
• Assad’s grand show
  Smadar Peri
   
• Middle East Forum event
   
• Iran's Attempts to Renew Relations with Egypt
  MEMRI
   
• The Way to Exit from Lebanon 's Morass
  By Paul Salem
  The Daily Star
   
• Candidly Speaking: Hudna? A prescription for disaster
  By Isi Leiblerr
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• US: Syria backs foreign fighters in Iraq
   
• Has Olmert capitulated to Hamas in agreeing to ceasefire?
  By Stan Goodenough
   
• If They Don't Fool You They Can't Defeat You
  Barry Rubin
   
• Pentagon insider attacks war plan
  BBC News
   
• Zionists should take Hizbollah leader remarks seriously
  Tehran - IRNA
   
• His masters' ear
  by Akiva Eldar
  Haaretz
   
• Israel, Hamas and the Challenge of Gaza
  Martin S. Indyk, Director, Saban Center for Middle East Policy
   
• Column One: Condi's echo chamber
  by Caroline Glick
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• Why There's a Hamas-Israel War
  Barry Rubin
   
• The Saudis: Which Side Are They On?
  by Robert Spencer
   
• PM: Syria talks worth serious consideration
  By Yossi Verter and Barak Ravid
   
• Assad Stresses Expansion of Iran Ties
   
• The Kosovo Catastrophe
  by Martin Sieff
   
• Ashdod Prepares to be Next Target of Gaza Missiles\
  Ezra HaLevi
   
• Report: Hezbollah says ready for war with Israel, but won't start it
  Barak Ravid
  Haaretz
   
• Post-Mortem:
  Israel's Response to the Increasing Threat From Gaza
  By Dore Gold
   
• Our World: Sound and Fury Signifying Incompetence
  Caroline Glick
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• "We are Waiting for These Sardine Cans Packed with Crusaders to be Incinerated"
  Lebanon Awaits the Arrival of the USS Cole
  By Franklin Lamb
   
• Showing the spirit of the 2006 Lebanon war
  On the path to bitter disappointment
  By Uzi Benziman
   
• Death of Paul Reyes
  FARC's Zawahiri
   
• Iran to invest dlrs 3.5bn in Syria - official
  IRNA
   
• Ahmadinejad hails 'new chapter' in Iran-Iraq ties
  By Richard A. Oppel Jr
  International Herald Tribune
   
• ANALYSIS:
  Hamas' next move will be to avenge Gaza deaths
  By Amos Harel & Avi Issacharoff
   
• It's the Middle East, Stupid
  Washington Post
  By Michael B. Oren
   
• 2 dreadful options
  Israel can either reoccupy Gaza or talk with Hamas; there’s no other way
  Nahum Barnea
   
• Ashkelon Katyushas Came From Iran Via Egypt
  by Ezra Halevi
   
• Lebanon unrest fears rise
  Agencies
   
• Was Mugnieh part of the trade?
   
• Hezbollah Scolds U.S. for Sending Ships Toward Lebanon
  By Robert F. Worth
  New York Times
   
• U.S.-Saudi Effort Seeks to End Syrian Interference in Lebanon
  Robin Wright
  Washington Post
   
• US Navy flexes its muscles in front of Lebanon
  Tim Butcher
  Telegraph UK
   
• America dispatches warship following failure in Lebanese talks - Iran radio
  Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran
   
• Kosovo: Fools Rush In
  William S. Lind
   
• Another Israel-Hezbollah war?
  Michael Young
   
• Hamas in the spotlight
  Matthew Levitt
   
• Our World: Iran’s game of grand strategy
  The Jerusalem Post
  Caroline Glick
   
• America's misguided blacklist
  By David Waddington, Peter Archer and Robin Corbett
  International Herald Tribune
   
• Lebanon crisis getting more complex
   
• Kosovo and Muslim solidarity
  MOSCOW (RIA Novosti - Maria Appakova)
   
• The Syrian Ambassador has the arrogance to speak about "Peace"
  
   
• Iran: Slain Hezbollah military chief's widow points the finger at Syria
   
• The Obama Files
  by John Batchelor
   
• Peace with Syria May Solve Iran’s Nuclear Problem – Israeli MP
  Jerusalem - TrendNews
   
• Russia, Serbia sign South Stream gas pipeline deal
   
• Annapolis failed to change Israel’s approach to Palestine
  Amr Moussa
  Tehran Times
   
• Violence erupts at Kosovo protest in Vienna
   
• If Kosovo, why not Palestine?
  It is time for the Ramallah-based Palestinian leadership to challenge the international community on Palestinian independence
  John Whitbeck
  Al Ahram
   
• Middle Israel: Is Europe losing its mind?
  Amotz Asa-El
   
• Serbian settlers plan partition of Kosovo
  Telegraph- UK
   
• Egypt to start Syria gas supply from new pipeline
   
• "Road to Syria runs through Washington"
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• Is Iran Winning the Iraq War?
  Robert Dreyfuss
   
• Serb official blames U.S. for violence Amid protests, Serbia seems to be drifting away from the West
   
• Kosovo throws wrench into U.S.-Russian relations
  Jim Maceda, NBC News
   
• Russia's Serbia Strategy
  It's the energy, stupid.
  Charlie Szrom
   
• Kosovo: Islamism's New Beachhead?
  By Julia Gorin
  FrontPageMagazine
   
• Kosovo’s Troubled Independence
  by Robert Maginnis
   
• Kosovo's stark warning
  
   
• Druze defiance
  Ian Black meets Walid Junblatt, Lebanon's outspoken Druze chieftain, and finds him unconcerned about the dangers of attacking Syria
  The Guardian UK - Ian Black
   
• Analysis: EU Hezbollah policy draws fire
  Megan Harris
  UPI Correspondent
   
• With All Due Respect to the Sunday Times
  A POLITICAL MOTIVATED ARTICLE
  By Nagi N. Najjar
   
• Washington Dispatch: Former Israeli intelligence chief Efraim Halevy explains why he advocates talks with Hamas.
  By Laura Rozen
   
• Threats from Hezbollah lead to fears of new war
  Hezbollah's secretary-general, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has declared that Israel soon would cease to exist.
  Leslie Susser
   
• Ex-Mossad Chief: Kill Terror-Supporting Heads of State
  Avi Tuchmayer
   
• Syria-Barak & Olmert, The After Mughnieh - Hezbollah Will Definetly Help
   
• Iran predicts Hezbollah will destroy Israel
  Stuart Williams
   
• A Balance of Terror in the War on Terror
  Schweitzer, Yoram
   
• Iran, Azerbaijan Call for Stronger Defense Ties
  Tehran Times
   
• Radical Disorder Over Lebanon
  Barry Rubin
   
• US intelligence chief: Hizbullah may be behind Mugniyah killing
   
• Factional Clashes Erupt in Beirut
   
• Mughniyeh hit and the demise of Israel
  Teheran Times
   
• Hezbollah Leader: Lebanon Will Not Be Israeli-Americanized
  Teheran Times
   
• U.S. to Produce Data on Iran’s Nuclear Program
  By David E. Sanger and Elaine Sciolino
  New York Times
   
• Syria 'directly responsible' for situation in Lebanon: US official
  Agence France Press
   
• Iran Joins Syria in Hunt for Killers of Militant
  International Herald Tribune
   
• Saudi Arabia Eager to Replace Iran
  Kommersant- Russia’s Daily
   
• Hizbullah Blames Hamas for Breach That Led To Mughniyeh Killing
  Hillel Fendel
   
• Talking to a Wall
  Palestine in the Mind of America
  By Kathleen and Bill Christison
   
• Terror expert: Assassination strong message to Syria
  Roni Gal
   
• Hezbollah Chief Declares 'Open War'
   
• Intelligence Experts Fear Hezbollah Retaliation
  The Washington Independant
   
• Imad Mughniyeh: Hezbollah's Phantom Killed
  Ali Nourizadeh -  Asharq Al-Awsat
   
• Ahmadinejad: We have a million more Mugniyahs
  Dudi Cohen
   
• Is Syria switching sides?
  For what price in the regional turmoil
  Imad Mughniyah killed in Damascus blast
  Hezbollah blames Israel
  News Agencies
   
• US National Olympic Committee invites Iranian football team to friendlies
   
• US restricts movements of its citizens in Beirut due to Hariri's Anniversary
   
• Our World: More Democracy Please
  Caroline Glick
   
• Endgame
  Abraham Rabinovich
   
• Analysis: In order to go in, we need a way out
  Yaakov Katz
   
• Israel’s Ruling Elites and the “Politics of Peace”
  Paul Eidelberg
   
• Jumblatt Initiating Civil War in Lebanon
  Al Alam News, Iran
   
• Azerbaijan, stuck between U.S. and Iran
  By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
   
• Jordanian king wants ”careful planning” ahead of Arab summit in Syria
   
• From Winograd to Damascus
  Shlomo Slonim
   
• Our inevitable withdrawal from Iraq could poison American politics for a generation
  Jonathan Rauch
   
• IDF says Hezbollah Katyushas, missiles back in S. Lebanon
  Amos Harel- Haaretz
   
• Upgraded Zelzal Can Target Israel's International Airport
  By Aaron Klein
   
• Syria develops new missile with Iran's aid
   
• Scared of Netanyahu
  Remarks made by Winograd member reflect deeply rooted ‘Bibiphobia’
  Uri Orbach
   
• Syria Acquiring Russian Rockets at "Furious" Pace
  Security official: 'It's like a return to the Cold War'
  Aaron Klein
   
• Syria to host Arab League summit March 29-30
   
• Lebanon's 'Black Sunday' Killings Raise Sectarian Ttensions
  The Lebanese Army, which many credit with holding together the fragile nation, is under siege after firing on a protest last month.
  Nicholas Blanford
  The Christian Science Monitor
   
• Region Hails Iran's Space Achievement
   
• Russia's Stroytransgaz starts building 2nd gas plant in Syria
   
• Leaving Iran for the Next Administration
  Caspar Weinberger Jr.
   
• Olmert Survives, for Now
  Mail & Guardian
   
• Only suckers believe Barak
  Amir Oren
   
• Justifiable But Late
  Decision to launch ground operation was right; timing was terribly wrong
  Martin Sherman
   
• Olmert under attack after report
  By Martin Patience
  BBC News, Jerusalem
   
• After Winograd report on war
  Barak stays on, so Olmert survives
  Moshe Milner
   
• Since he does not intend to resign
  By Zvi Bar'el
   
• Not just the 60 hours
  By Ze'ev Segal
   
• Who will trust him in the next war
  By Orit Shochat
   
• Analysis: Lebanon - A return to civil war?
  By Jonathan Spyer
   
• What will Ahmadinejad take to Iraq?
  Ilgar Velizade
  Moscow RIA - Novosti
   
• Will We Now Be Silent
  by Caroline Glick
  Jerusalem Post
   
• Ehud Barak - The Poison Dwarf
  By Emanuel A. Winston, a Middle East Analyst & Commentator
   
• Syria’s flirting with Israel beyond Iran ’s back
  (Secretly for Valentine’s 2008 only)
   
• Lessons from Lebanon
  Mark Silverberg
   
• The Costs of Containing Iran
  Washington's Misguided New Middle East Policy
  Vali Nasr and Ray Takeyh
  From Foreign Affairs
   
• Winograd: Will Israel’s politicans learn?
  Andrew Exum
  Middle East Strategy at Harvard
  Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
   
• Iran to produce nuclear energy by 2009, Ahmadinejad says
  Nazila Fathi
  International Herald Tribune
   
• Inside Track: State of Confusion
  by Amitai Etzioni
   
• U.S. sells Syria dual-use tech that could be used by Iran
  World Tribune
   
• Will Olmert Hang On in Israel?
  Bush's Key Ally On Peace Proposal Girds for Criticism
  By Cam Simpson
  The Wall Street Journal
   
• Russia backs Arab League plan for Lebanon
   
• Rough justice in Lebanon
  The Economist Intelligence Unit
   
• Olmert must go
  PM lost moral authority to lead Israel in light of war conduct, attitude to Winograd report
  Maj-Gen(Res)Uzi Dayan
   
• Hizbollah criticises Lebanese army over killings
  Ferry Biedermann in Damascus
  Financial Time
   
• Bushehr power plant to be operational on time
  IRNA
   
• Army Urged to Probe Beirut Killings
   
• Bush Hits a Wall in the Mideast
  Washington Post
   
• Selling America's Foreign Policy
  by Oliver North
   
• 7 Shot Dead in Beirut Protests
   
• Syria's demand for greater Hezbollah representation in Lebanese Cabinet rejected
  Salah Nasrawi
   
• Forget about war with Iran?
  By Leon Hadar
   
• Iran Gets 7th Nuclear Fuel Shipment
   
• The calm before the upcoming storm
  Olmert boasts about quiet northern border, but seems to forget about the war
  Uri Orbach
   
• Syria kill, then condemn
  Syria condemns Beirut explosion
   
• Syria: Who Needs Annapolis?
  TIME - DAMASCUS
   
• Analysis: Iran in from cold?
  UPI International
   
• The Struggle for Lebanon
  by Patrick Seale
   
• Notes on the Post-Bush Mideast
  Tony Karon- Rootless Cosmopolitan
   
• Mind games
  Hezbollah and Israel continue to battle it out through propaganda
  Nicholas Blanford- Lebanon
   
• Al-Sharq Al-Awsat :Syrian-Iranian Intervention in Lebanon is Threatening Arab National Security
   
• Radical Palestinians urge more resistance against Israel
   
• Bulgaria can help transfer Iran gas, oil to Europe
  IRNA
   
• Winograd Commission member
  Report could topple government
  Aviram Zino
  Ynet
   
• Parents' report:
  We won't forgive Olmert unless he resigns
  Ynet
   
• Fifth fuel shipment from Russia arrives
  Tehran, IRNA
   
• Putting off Lebanon, yet again
  Los Angeles Times
   
• What Now? Israel Debates Next Moves in Gaza
  by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
   
• Mubarak, Ahmadinejad discuss Palestinian, Lebanese situation in phone call
   
• Ahmadinejad calls for stronger promotion of Islamic culture
  Tehran Times Political Desk
   
• Iran, Pakistan to be at the heart of Rice's Europe trip
  by Sylvie Lanteaume
   
• Letter to UN Secretary General, by Eienne Sakr, Chairman, The Guardians of the Cedars Party
   
• Lieberman the foolish wise man
  The Jerusalem Post
  Caroline Glick
   
• Hezbollah Warns Israel Against Attacks
   
• Domestic Issues Trump Foreign Policy in Iran
  By Mehdi Khalaji
   
• German Foreign Minister Criticized for Courting Syria
  Deutsche Welle
   
• Iran set to acquire S-300PTs from Belarus
  Janes
   
• Israel in Favor of Moscow Conference
   
• Voices from Afar: Cold War II?
  by Andreas Umland
   
• Beirut bomb warning shot for U.S. Lebanon policy
   
• Iran defiant after Israeli missile test
  By Ori Lewis and Dan Williams
   
• Russian Navy to conduct exercises in the Atlantic next week
   
• Al Qaeda in Lebanon
  The Iraq War Spreads
  Boston Review - Nir Rosen
   
• Beirut bomb evokes terrible Déjà Vu
  Telegraph.Co.UK
   
• Bin Laden's son applies to move to U.K. with wife
  Daily Mail
   
• French make serious move into Gulf
  By Paul Reynolds
  BBC News
   
• Face To Face With Hezbollah
  By Dan Lieberman
   
• President Bush
  Don’t fail
  By Nagi N. Najjar
  Executive DirectorThe Lebanese Foundation for Peace
   
• U-TURN
  In Iran Reversal, Bureaucrats
  Triumphed Over Cheney Team
  The Wall Street Journal
   
• DEBKAfile reports: Moskva missile carrier takes part in big Russian navy maneuver starting in Mediterranean Tuesday
   
• THE SYRIAN - IRANIAN PEACE PLAN
   
• Olmert: Hizbullah not interested in using its missiles
   
• The Geneva Accord
  A Model Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreement
   
• The Clinton Peace Plan- 23 December 2000
  Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
   
• Bush, Clinton and the Illusion of the Last-Minute Peace
  Barry Rubin
   
• Special report: Assad considers Lebanon a Syrian territory
  Ya Libnan
   
• Bush Urges Arab Allies to Confront Iran
  By Steven Lee Myers
   
• Anti-Israel Palestinian groups to hold Syria conference
   
• Khamenei: U.S. won't bring Iran to its knees
  By Parisa Hafezi
   
• Mofaz: Lebanon resolution worthless
  Rona Tal
   
• The Peace Planners Strike Again
  Hillel Halkin
   
• Taif versus the Lebanese Presidency
  by Etienne Sakr, Chairman
  The Guardians of the Cedars Party
   
• The Collapse of the Saudi Sunni Bloc against Iran's Aspirations for Regional Hegemony in the Gulf
  By: Y. Yehoshua, I. Rapoport, Y. Mansharof, A. Savyon and Y. Carmon
   
• "Victory shall be ours by blood and will," says Hizbullah chief
  by Roee Nahmias
   
• Syria Rebuilding on Site Destroyed by Israeli Bombs
  By William J. Broad
   
• Ayat. Khatami: Bush's tour of ME vain Tehran
  IRNA
   
• Bush presses Mideast peace bid amid skepticism
  Reuters
   
• Israel planned 1991 strike on NKorea-Syria ship
  Space War Report
   
• Treasury Designates Individuals, Entity Fueling Iraqi Insurgency
   
• The Lebanon Red Line
  David Makovsky
  Haaretz
   
• Bush warns Iran of consequences of any new naval crisis
   
• In a bit of a State
  By Christopher Griffin
  Armed Forces Journal
   
• Baby Steps
  by Dennis Ross
  The New Republic
   
• Iran, Italian Firm to Sign Energy Deal
   
• Russian Su-33 warplanes exercise in Mediterranean
   
• Iran High on Bush Mideast Trip
  By Salah Nasrawi
   
• Bush's historical parallels
  Caroline Glick
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• President Bush’s Visit – A Fumbled Opportunity
  Yoram Ettinger
   
• Confidence in America The Best Change the Next President Can Make
  By Madeleine K. Albright
   
• U.S. says Iranian gunboats harassed warships Officials describe incident as a 'significant provocative act'
  NBC News
   
• Russia sees international efforts as key to Mideast settlement
   
• In-sourcing the Tools
  National Power for Success and Security
  Matt Armstrong
   
• Syria's Diplomatic Isolation Grows
   
• Israel to brief Georges Bush on options for Iran strike
  Uzi Mahnaimi, Tel Aviv
   
• Inside Track: Spoiling to Spoil
  by Barbara Slavin
   
• The Palmerstonian Moment
  Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations
   
• Germany and Iran after the National Intelligence Estimate
  Philip H. Gordon
  Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy
   
• Narrowing the Gulf
  By Itamar Rabinovich
   
• Iran-Syria-Meet
  IRNA - Damascus
   
• Iran’s Dangerous Nuke Game: Why Israel Might Rush To Strike
  Peter Brookes
   
• Iran Not Interested in US Ties 'Now'
   
• US Official Touts Iran Talks
   
• The policy that castrated the IDF
  By Israel Harel
   
• Rice and Gates Divided over Iran 's Role in Iraq
  by Gareth Porter
   
• For Bush, 2008 Makes or Breaks
  by Michael Moran
   
• Assad: Iran-Syria exchange of views will foil plots
  
   
• Reflections of Frustrating Mistakes
  by Bernard J. Shapiro- Chairman
  The Freeman Center for Strategic Studies
   
• A Year Later, Gen. Petraeus Observes Return to Calm Petraeus Gives partial credit to Syria, Iran and Moqtada Al-Sadr
  ABC News
   
• Some China firms avoid U.S. technology transfer licenses
  International Herald Tribune
  Steven R. Weisman
   
• List of US Diplomats Killed Abroad
  U.S. Department of State
   
• Olmert hints Jerusalem division inevitable
  Jerusalem Reuters
   
• Iran's inner and outer circles of influence and power
  Los Angeles Times
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