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relearned before Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and Gen. David H. Petraeus implemented a strateg

inspired by radical Islam, but many more by simple nationalism. Hard lessons in counterinsurgency had to be relearned before Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and Gen. David H. Petraeus implemented a strategy that combined fighting with negotiations. The 2007 surge, employing new counterinsurgency tactics

s to `counter the Zionist project [the state of Israel] in its different aspects' — a position unlikely to change before an Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights. The group has also traditionally supported Hamas." Any Syrian regime (Islamist or secular, democratic or authoritarian) will lose legitimacy if it

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sed for observation, intelligence gathering, and communication." The moves "came a day following a thwarted Hezbollah attack in a contested area in the Golan Heights." Family: Iran Abducted California Man While Visiting Dubai. The AP (8/4, Gambrell) reports that a "California-based member of an Iranian militant

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sraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuiell Under Trump, the U.S. recognized Jerusalem as the ca ital of IsraelULL21 and Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, 1 leading to international condemnation including from the United Nations General Assembly, the European Union and the Arab Leaguti384.085.1 Afg

ddress as soon as possible. Defense Secretary Bob Gates rails against Israel at every National Security

ht at last be ready for real, not just cold peace. Mr. Mubarak was not. Nor is Mr. Assad of Syria, who has refused every Israeli offer to hand back the Golan Heights. If you rule at the head of a tiny Alawite minority, why take the Heights and give away a conflict that keeps you in power? Peace at home— justice,

their future and for the future of their children, and a regime that has thrived off a conflict in which it has never fired a single shot to liberate the Golan Heights from Israeli occupation, regardless of its political posturing. All this leads to the question of whether Netanyahu's new position is based on some

ts military capabilities. Already, some of the European powers involved are running short of munitions. You can understand why U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates was scathing about this in Brussels last week. Even enlargement, Europe's most successful project, is close to stalling. In his victory speech after

East environment shaped by Israel’s overwhelming victory over the Arabs in the 1967 war, its seizure of extensive Arab territories including Syria’s Golan Heights and its subsequent close alliance with the United States, which put in place a sort of dual US- Israeli regional hegemony from which Syria and its al

the first in the administration to privately raise the issue of a no-fly zone. But she retreated when her main ally in the Cabinet, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, loudly and publicly said a no-fly zone would mean attacking ground positions, and it was a bad idea to get involved in Libya. The White House was se