Archive for 'Mid East'
Damascus Street Notes
Posted on20. Oct, 2012 by Franklin Lamb.
In the Grip of War and Sanctions…. Damascus Street Notes By Franklin Lamb Damascus The half hour drive from the Lebanese border at Maznaa to Damascus is always pleasant with the wide, well paved and maintained highway, cutting through rolling hills often with large herds of goats and sheep lazily watching the traffic below. As [...]
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American interests in the Middle East
Posted on12. Oct, 2012 by Alan Hart.
A good question about American interests in the Middle East but what is the answer? By Alan Hart In an article for TomDispatch, Peter Van Buren (a U.S. Foreign Service Officer for many years) posed what he described as Six Critical Foreign Policy Questions That Won’t Be Raised in Presidential Debates. Question three was under [...]
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Towards a Western Retreat from Syria
Posted on12. Oct, 2012 by Editor.
by Thierry Meyssan The Syria war drags on. Continuing it has become too expensive and too dangerous for its neighbors. Russia, which aims to re-establish itself in the Middle East, is trying to show the United States that it is in their best interest to allow Moscow to resolve the conflict. The military situation in [...]
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Netanyahu Hitting America!
Posted on13. Sep, 2012 by Alan Hart.
Are Netanyahu and the Zionist lobby now a threat to the survival of the US-Israel relationship? By Alan Hart In her first response to the killing of the American ambassador and three others in Libya, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she had asked herself the question that many Americans were asking – how [...]
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The Syrian Crisis
Posted on03. Sep, 2012 by Franklin Lamb.
Is the Syrian Crisis Being Leveraged to Weaken Hezbollah? by FRANKLIN LAMB Beirut. One would be correct in imagining that life’s no bowl of cherries for Hezbollah these days. Pressures, often intense, resulting in being sucked into the vortex of the powerful maelstrom and violent whirlpool of Lebanese and regional politics can’t be bringing much [...]
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America preparing for a post-Israel Middle East
Posted on29. Aug, 2012 by Raja Mujtaba.
By Franklin Lamb Beirut Congresswoman Illena Ros-Lehtinen will have her hands full as she makes the political and social rounds at this month’s Republican National Convention. Illena, is the only female committee chair in the House of Representatives and arguably Israel’s most ardent agent. She is a constant thorn in the Obama administration's side, regularly castigating the president for [...]
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Egypt Finding Its New Course
Posted on26. Aug, 2012 by Editor.
Egypt hedges between the West, the Gulf, Iran and China By Michael Hughes Egypt is evidently seeking to establish an independent foreign policy after thirty years of doing America’s bidding. Next week President Mohamed Morsi will visit Beijing and Tehran in what many analysts are calling a strategic “pivot” away from the West and the oil-rich Gulf monarchies. [...]
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Obama one step away from attacking Syria
Posted on24. Aug, 2012 by Editor.
State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland suggested that the U.S. should act in Syria at its sole discretion, and not in accordance with the established rules of the international community. By Alexandrina Chistenkaya The U.S. president called the use or transportation of chemical weapons by Damascus the condition of military intervention in the Syrian crisis. Touching [...]
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Mid East: Hope and Despair
Posted on22. Aug, 2012 by Franklin Lamb.
Lebanon’s Palestinians in focus By Franklin Lamb Beirut. Remarkably, this Ramadan holiday season in Lebanon designees from both the Shia Higher Islamic Shiites Council and the Sunni Dar el Fatwa, figuratively speaking, pointed their binoculars deep into the eastern sky and in almost unheard of unison, proclaimed that Eid al Fitr this year was to [...]
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Netanyahu v Obama and Iran
Posted on15. Aug, 2012 by Alan Hart.
By Alan Hart I am sure that U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is right when he says that Israel has not yet made up its mind about whether or not to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities. The question is – What will most likely be the determining factor in the mind of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu? [...]
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