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olumnist Sarkis Naoum told Reuters. "We had a war that went on for 15 years, envoys would meet but nothing would happen," Naoum said, referring to Lebanon's own 1975-1990 civil war. Even if the parties agree in Geneva, analysts say, they would need to convince rebel armed groups on the ground, who ha

nd. The U.S. position is that "the opposition must negotiate with the regime and agree on a roadmap", said Fawaz Gerges, Middle East expert at the London School of Economics. "The Americans and the Europeans want to lock Assad into Geneva; it is a process without peace." The opposition source, who did not want to be id

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s Shia. He takes seriously the warning by King Abdullah of Jordan back in 2004 of the danger of a Shia Crescent that would extend from the coast of Lebanon to Afghanistan. Hezbollah in Lebanon, Assad in Syria, and the Shia- controlled government of Iraq form the links in the chain. When the Arab Spring

e revisiting existing security agreements. "Morsi needs to urgently rethink Egypt's security architecture vis-à-vis Israel and the United States," London School of Economics professor Fawaz Gerges wrote in a recent paper. An avowed realist, Sadek acknowledged: "Patience will be paramount, as all this will involve a 'no