Tag Archives: Syria

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We want the fox to guard the henhouse, too: Syria wants Turkey to mediate any new indirect peace talks between Syria and Israel. Said an Israeli spokesman: My, Grandma—what big teeth you have! The anti-Israel media bias in bloom: When … Continue reading

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Wednesday snarks

Um… what? Baby Assad is asking Mad Mahmoud to tone down his anti-Israel rhetoric? To postpone his visit to Lebanon? This can’t be a true story. I am not getting this at all. Syria is not serious about peace with … Continue reading

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One of these things is not like the other

Remember that song on Sesame Street? One of these things is not like the other? Well, here’s a real-life example of it. The United Nations nuclear watchdog agency begins its annual meeting Monday, where it looks set to wrestle with … Continue reading

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Why Israel will never outsource her self-defense

This is why Israel will never outsource her defense: A book detailing the bombing of the Syrian nuclear reactor is coming out, and Ynet is excerpting it. The Bush administration tried to convince Israel not to bomb the reactor at … Continue reading

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Your Sunday morning snark briefs

Leo doesn’t heart Mel: Word is that Leonardo DiCaprio exited a film he was going to do with mysognist anti-Semite Mel Gibson. The insider quoted doesn’t give a reason, but perhaps the fact that Leo is dating Israeli model Bar … Continue reading

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The Turkey-Syria-Iran axis

The Turkey-Iran quid pro quo has been announced. Imposing fresh sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program would hurt the region’s countries and contribute nothing to resolving the Mideast conflict, Turkey’s ambassador to Cairo said Wednesday ahead of a UN … Continue reading

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Dreary Monday briefs

Another ship of fools heads to Israel: Yes, time to try to break the “siege” of Gaza again and get really angry when the IDF boards the ship and turns it around. But this time, they’re prepared! They’re having IDF-Boards-Our-Ship … Continue reading

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Wednesday briefs

Cold… cold… cold… burning up! What freeze? The AP is the only news outlet that claimed a “de facto freeze” on building in Jerusalem, and now the AP is effectively recanting that claim—but without issuing a correction or retraction. Funny, … Continue reading

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Syria-sly bad behavior

The Washington Post gets it right: BASHAR AL-ASSAD is proving to be an embarrassment for the Obama administration. In pursuit of President Obama’s policy of “engagement” with U.S. adversaries, the State Department has dispatched several senior envoys to Damascus for … Continue reading

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TGIF briefs, Obama Middle East edition

Once more unto the breach: George Mitchell arrives in Israel for yet another round of Obama diktats for Israel and little or nothing demanded of the Palestinians. (Say, read the speech, it takes on an entirely new meaning when you … Continue reading

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You can’t be Syria-us

Barry Rubin mines the Pesach Haggadah to illustrate how Syria has been working against American interests in the Middle East: Back to Ford and Syria. Yet even if Syria is not building apartments in east Jerusalem, it might still be … Continue reading

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Briefly

Obama’s Syrian outreach is working just dandy: Since Obama has named an ambassador to Syria, the results are clear. Syria is now discussing “resistance” with Walid Jumblatt, the man who had to abase himself to his new Syrian overlord in … Continue reading

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The Obama outreach dividends

Besides pressuring Israel into making more and more concessions without similar actions from the Palestinians, the Obama administration has appointed a new ambassador to Syria, given Syrian actions in Lebanon a complete pass (and in fact, accepted the de facto … Continue reading

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Israel’s Axis of Evil

The heads of Hamas and Hezbullah met in Damascus with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Bashar Assad to plot Israel’s destruction. How is the Obama administration handling the fact that Syria hosted the heads of two terrorist organizations and one terrorist-supporting state? … Continue reading

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Weaning Syria away from Iran

Lots of foreign policy sophisticates have told us that the American way forward in the Middle East is to engage Syria and draw it out of Iran’s orbit. Last week the Washington Post editorialized in response to President Obama’s naming … Continue reading

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