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g place in the Middle East today between Iran and Saudi Arabia. And that cold war is playing itself out to some extent in Iraq, certainly in Syria, Lebanon, and so forth. And when Iranians look at the region, they seem to feel--and increasingly, others are joining them in that opinion--that the Bashar
ms into perpetrators. Since the Hama slaughter of 1982, the Alawites have consolidated their control of the country. According to the Syria scholar Radwan Ziadeh, they comprise the vast majority of Syria's roughly 700,000 security and intelligence personnel and military officer core. In fact, they constitute
es that the Syrian recognition of the Palestinian state today means that the al- Assad regime may give up the idea of custody over the Levant, i.e. Lebanon and Palestine, especially as Damascus also previously prevented Lebanon from recognizing the Palestinian state. The Syrian recognition also indicat
nbul of the so-called National Salvation Council, but Syrian authorities blocked it. A road map for the opposition was sketched in an interview by Radwan Ziadeh, a visiting scholar at George Washington University who closely follows the dissident groups. He said he has contacted people who might attend the
es that the Syrian recognition of the Palestinian state today means that the al- Assad regime may give up the idea of custody over the Levant, i.e. Lebanon and Palestine, especially as Damascus also previously prevented Lebanon from recognizing the Palestinian state. The Syrian recognition also indicat
nbul of the so-called National Salvation Council, but Syrian authorities blocked it. A road map for the opposition was sketched in an interview by Radwan Ziadeh, a visiting scholar at George Washington University who closely follows the dissident groups. He said he has contacted people who might attend the
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Barack Obama
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Bashar al-Assad
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Bill Clinton
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Tehran
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Damascus
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Middle East
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Jerusalem
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Marc Rich
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Saddam Hussein
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Cairo
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Tunisia
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Hillary Clinton
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Michael Cohen
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Fatah
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Samantha Power
PERSONthe West Bank
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Mahmoud Abbas
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Ehud Barak
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Morocco
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