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cape the army's siege, the situation in Syria is undoubtedly growing desperate. However, we have not yet seen the red flags that would indicate the al Assad regime is in imminent danger of collapse. The reasons are fairly straightforward. The al Assad clan belongs to Syria's Alawite minority, who only 4
nd judiciary branch, so long as Hamas did not control the recipient. It also permitted funding to nongovernmental organizations that provide aid to the West Bank and Gaza relating to humanitarian needs and democracy promotion. Ultimately, the dilemma over funding the PA resolved itself in 2007, when Hamas b
t U.S. military buildup in the Persian Gulf and an intensifying U.S.-led economic warfare campaign slowed Iran down, but it was the decline of the al Assad regime that put Iran on the defensive. An emboldened Sunni opposition in Syria, backed by the West, Turkey and the Arab Gulf states, could spill in
solve the parliament and Western actors who supported him in those threats). When a Palestinian civil war erupted in June 2007, the governments in the West Bank and Gaza became more explicitly autocratic, to the detriment of Palestinians in both territories. EFTA_R1_00464342 EFTA01977726 Hardly anyone ha
and Iran a dominant influence there, the Israelis face a more complex choice. If the regime of President Bashar al Assad survives (with or without al Assad himself), Iran -- which is supplying weapons and advisers to Syria -- will wield much greater influence in Syria. In effect, this would create an
l, Israeli settlements or Israeli products. I can certainly see the efficacy of nonviolent resistance by Palestinians to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank — on one condition: They accompany any boycotts, sit-ins or hunger strikes with a detailed map of EFTA00686706 the final two-state settlement the
Entities connected to both al Assad and the West Bank

Barack Obama
PERSON
Benjamin Netanyahu
PERSON
Jerusalem
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Lebanon
LOCATION
United States
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Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
Bill Clinton
PERSON
Tehran
LOCATION
Fatah
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Middle East
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West Bank
LOCATION
Cairo
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Terje Rod-Larsen
PERSON
Hosni Mubarak
PERSON
Damascus
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Mahmoud Abbas
PERSONthe Gaza Strip
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Hillary Clinton
PERSON
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
Yemen
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