Epstein Secrets

e Alawite regime in Syria to maintain a foothold in the Levant through groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Since the return of Syria to Sunni control would unravel a key pillar of Iranian deterrent strategy, we can expect that Iran is doing everything p

assan bin Talal is chairman and founder of the Arab Thought Forum and the West Asia-North Africa Forum. EFTA_R1_02031582 EFTA02690691 Arbelt 3. Stratfor Turkey's Inevitable Problems With Neighbors June 21, 2011 -- Syrian President Bashar al Assad delivered a long and uneventful speech Monday, duri

Post Avoiding a summer of blood David Ignatius Project Syndicate The Middle East's Slow-Motion Revolution Prince El Hassan bin Talal Article 3. Stratfor Turkey's Inevitable Problems With Neighbors Agence Global A Defiant Asad Sticks to His Guns Patrick Seale Foreign Policy In Focus Egypt's Evolv

the Alawite regime in Syria to maintain a foothold in the Levant through groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Since the return of Syria to Sunni control would unravel a key pillar of Iranian deterrent strategy, we can expect that Iran is doing everything pos

complex pieces of real estate in the world, is now finding that a foreign policy built on avoiding problems with neighbors grinds against reality. In STRATFOR's view, this was inevitable, which is why we took interest in Monday's issue of Today's Zaman, an English-language outlet loyal to the movement of Fe

an different? Iran is different because it has explicitly threatened Israel. It is different because it supports Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, EFTA00660551 both terrorist groups with a penchant for lobbing the occasional rocket into Israel. Iran is different because it acts irresponsibl

portunity shrinking by the hour. Unless otherwise persuaded by the United States, Israel would feel compelled to strike. As for Israeli arms sales, Stratfor wrote in a recent report: "It is difficult to believe that the United States and Israel are not coordinating their activities in the Caucasus. ...

, while Americans were going to the polls to elect a new president, EFTA_R1_00464356 EFTA01977740 Israeli infantry, tanks and bulldozers entered the Gaza Strip to dismantle an extensive tunnel network used by Hamas to smuggle in weapons. An already tenuous truce mediated by the Egyptian government of Hosn

eign Policy How Hamas Won the War Aaron David Miller Article 3 New York Daily News 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 Journa

tinian Authority led by Mahmoud Abbas. Iran has been the major sponsor of Hamas, the EFTA00684677 militant Islamist group that drove Fatah out of the Gaza Strip in 2007. Rajoub says Abbas sent him to Tehran in order to encourage Iran's new President Hassan Rouhani in his effort toward a more moderate foreig

an Option if Peace Talks Fail Karl Vick Article 4. The National Interest Syria: The Wages of Inaction Julie Lenarz, Michael Miner Article 5. Stratfor New Dimensions of U.S. Foreign Policy toward Russia George Friedman Article 6. The National Interest Five Futuristic Weapons That Could Change W

raeli state's survival. The Palestinians have had the ability to impose a significant cost on the occupation of the West Bank and the containing of the Gaza Strip, however. They have forced the Israelis to control significant hostile populations with costly, ongoing operations and to pay political costs to co

in Washington visit William Wan Article 3. The Christian Science Monitor Israel is not the threat, Mr. Obama. Iran is. John Bolton Article 4. Stratfor Israel's New Strategic Environment George Friedman Article 5. Agence Global The Irrational US-Iran-Israel Dynamic Rami G. Khouri Article 6. T

pt it under wraps for almost a week, finally attributing it to fumes from a faulty heater. An online report by the American private intelligence firm Stratfor suggested another cause — radioactive poisoning — and hinted that Mossad’s Caesarea section was back in business. Caesarea, named for an Israeli beac

uble-digits in the incoming parliament. The overall message is depressingly familiar to Palestinians: creating a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem is simply not on the list of priorities for Israel at the current time. And the Palestinian Authority is proving itself to be an

pt it under wraps for almost a week, finally attributing it to fumes from a faulty heater. An online report by the American private intelligence firm Stratfor suggested another cause - radioactive poisoning — and hinted that Mossad's Caesarea section was back in business. Caesarea, named for an Israeli beac

ouble-digits in the incoming parliament. The overall message is depressingly familiar to Palestinians: creating a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem is simply not on the list of priorities for Israel at the current time. And the Palestinian Authority is proving itself to be an