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l settlement in Syria has vanished. The United States needs an alternate strategy for strengthening Syrian moderates who can resist both the brutal Bashar al-Assad regime and al- Qaeda extremists. A new Syrian opposition leader who may help get the balance right is Jamal Maarouf. He heads a group called the S

rategy that sounded more pragmatic than anything I've heard from the opposition in recent months. Maarouf says his forces must simultaneously fight Assad's army and the fighters from Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islami tat of Iraq and Syria, two jihadist groups with al-Qaeda roots. That's easier said tha

year of moderate settlement construction Elliott Abrams and Uri Sadot Article 4. The New Republic Obama - Speak Loudly and Carry a Small Stick John B. Judis Article 5. NYT Egypt's Ancient Snark Alaa Al Aswany Article 6. Al Monitor The Saudi pivot to Asia Bruce Riedel Article 7. NYT The Deepest

is achieved we will seek at Geneva ways of better dealing with the terrible internal humanitarian situation. International aid goes to the needy in Assad controlled areas where the population is greater and apparently lesser amounts to the non-Assad controlled areas where the need is probably greater

orst conflict so far this century. Meanwhile, the international community has been disastrously divided. Since the fighting began, Syrian President Bashar Assad has had Russia's explicit international support. But while Russia's strategy, from the outset, has been coherent and well- defined, the West's has n

at to expect in 2014 Turkey Dog'a Sacit Arti01e 7. New Republic Harry Truman's concerns about Israel and Palestine were prescient—and forgotten John B. Judis Haaretz Kerry can survive failure, but can Israel? S. Daniel Abraham EFTA00684504 Jan. 19, 2014 -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's peace

American reliability among all =.S. allies in the region and beyond. That Iran has appea=ed far more determined to win in Syria, defined as keeping Assad in power,=than the United States has appeared in achieving its stated goal (that Ass=d must go) similarly shakes confidence in U.S. power and willpo

: Harr= Truman and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Adam Cohen</=> Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the =rab/Israeli Conflict by John B. Judis <http://www.amazon.com/John-B.- Judis/e/B00GDWW6OM/ref=3Ddp_byline_cont_book_1> </=> June 13, 2014 -- Ju=is is an activist journalist cum historian