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lamist regime in Damascus or, more likely, Lebanese-style instability cannot please the Israelis. They are already experiencing jihadist threats in Sinai. The idea of having similar problems in Syria, where the other side of the border is the Galilee rather than the Negev, must make them nervous. Bu

ervention. Chemical weapons would not only cross that threshold but also almost certainly result in him seeing out his days in a prison cell at the Hague. President Obama on Monday warned Assad that he would be "held accountable" should those weapons be used. The chemical-weapons problem, however, m

Psychotic? John Matson Anicle2- | The Financial Times Why Libya sceptics were proved badly wrong Anne-Marie Slaughter Article S- | Foreign Policy Sinai’s Bedouin run amok in post-Mubarak Egypt Mohamed Fadel Fahmy ance |The National Interest Foreign-Policy Failure Dimitri K. Simes Article 5. NYT C

succeed in capturing him. Of course part of what makes it so difficult for him to leave is the indictment by the International Criminal Court in the Hague. His son Saif al-Islam is also indicted for crimes against humanity. So there really is no way out for him. I think it's important to note that his m

e writer is a former director of policy planning for the US state department HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024601 --- PAGE BREAK --- Article 3. Foreign Policy Sinai’s Bedouin run amok in post- Mubarak Egypt Mohamed Fadel Fahmy AUGUST 24, 2011 -- The landscape of Egypt's lawless North Sinai governorate is punctu

President of the Republic of Egypt. 26 July 1956 President Nasser of Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal. 29 October 1956 Suez Crisis. Israel invades Sinai (Operation Kadesh) with the covert assent of France and the UK. 30 October 1956 France and the UK launch military operations against Egypt. 5 Novemb

eace talks in Washington facilitated by President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry. Rami Hamdallah forms a new Palestinian Government. Opening in The Hague of the trial of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL). Fatah and Hamas announce in Gaza a new reconciliation agreement calling for the formation of

the region. Last week's attack on the Eilat road should be understood in this context. Some are hypothesizing that new Islamist groups forming in the Sinai or Palestinian groups in Gaza operating outside Hamas' control carried out the attack. But while such organizations might formally be separate from H

--- 23 Arab states, should demand as a condition of support that the weapons immediately be placed under control of international monitors from the Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and plans developed for their destruction. Hopefully, Syria's new leaders will have genuin