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22:05 +0000 25 March, 2014 Article I. Los Angeles Times Next test for Obama: Soothing the Saudis Dennis Ross Article 2. The National Interest Lebanon's Next Flashpoint Nicholas Saidel Article 3. American Prospect Disrespecting Your Defender Gershom Gorenberg Article 4. Al-Monitor Iran resum

4. Al-Monitor Iran resumes monetary aid to Hamas Adnan Abu Amer Articles. The Washington Post Why the study of Vladimir Putin is so important Richard Cohen Article 6. BBC The deep discord bedevilling the Arab world Gerald Butt Article 7. Asharq Al Awsat Diverting the Blue Nile's course could take

war has spread. Turkey has become more and more belligerent toward Syria and even seems spoiling for a fight. Related fighting may have erupted in Lebanon — it's hard to tell the cause — but ultimately Assad will start trouble there. (That's Page 2 of the Syrian playbook.) Jordan is worried sick about

World Policy Institute The Palestinians Want to Negotiate Andrew Wilson Article 4. The Washington Post Obama and Romney's empty talk on Syria Richard Cohen Article 5. Spiegel Iran's Secret Plan to Contaminate the Strait of Hormuz Erich Follath Article 6. The Christian Science Monitor NATO must off

row Confident Strike on Iran's Nukes Can Work Jeffrey Goldberg Article 5. The Moscow Times Beautiful Friendships Richard Lourie Article 6. NOW Lebanon Adieu, Hezbollah Hanin Ghaddar Article 7. The New Republic What Are Our Military Options in Syria? Michael O'Hanlon Ankle I. NYT U.S. War Ga

es Perils of Israeli Strike Against Iran Mark Mazzetti and Thom Shanker Article 2. The Washington Post Playing for time through a strike on Iran Richard Cohen Article 3. TIME Five Tips For on Nuclear Negotiations With Iran Tony Karon Article 4. Bloomberg Israelis Grow Confident Strike on Iran's Nukes

morally credible argument against intervention—by someone. Leaving Syria to descend into the kind of sectarian violence that devastated neighboring Lebanon in the 1980s would condemn hundreds of thousands to premature, violent death. Syria is five times the size of Lebanon. The risks of leaving it to d

d for 29 percent of global liquid fuel consumption (mostly oil). By 2030, according to BP, that figure will be down to 19 percent. Rula Jebreal and Richard Cohen on what's next in Syria. Second, a new military intervention makes very little sense at a time when the U.S. defense budget is being slashed. Accor

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weapons monopoly and the distraction that the Iran issue provides from outside attention to the Pal=stinians' lack of popular sovereignty. Columnist Richard Cohen, in a piece last week <http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/strike-on-iran-could-buy-=srael-needed-time-in- mideast/2012/03/19/gIQAim44NS_story.ht

ve, and medium-range rockets capable of reaching Haifa. Hezbollah incurred a heavy toll for the fight, with much of the infrastructure in southern Lebanon devastated and roughly 1,300 Lebanese civilian casualties threatening to erode its popular support. Casualty numbers aside, Hezbollah emerged from

The Fuel for The Flames Dennis Ross Article 4. Article 5. Stratfor Israel and Gaza: Then and Now The Washington Post The callousness of Hamas Richard Cohen EFTA_R1_00464339 EFTA01977723 The Wall Street Journal Israel's Iron Dome Editorial Article 7. Yale-Global Online Magazine An American Presid

h impotence as Assad bulldozes whole neighborhoods, tortures with impunity and summarily executes the innocent as well as the guilty? Why, indeed? Lebanon totters. Jordan drowns in refugees. Iraq has descended into ethnic chaos and its border with Syria is a mere rest stop for Islamic radicals. A EFTA

3. Al Jazeera Iran's long and winding road to lifting the sanctions Akbar Ganji Article 4. The Washington Post Obama's failure to act on Syria Richard Cohen Article 5. NYT U.S. Steps Up Criticism of Russian Role in Syrian War Michael R. Gordon , David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt Article 6. The Nation