Epstein Secrets

a WikiLeaks cable that brilliantly foreshadowed how environmental stresses would fuel the uprising. Sent on Nov. 8, 2008, from the U.S. Embassy in Damascus to the State Department, the cable details how, in light of what was a devastating Syrian drought — it lasted from 2006-10 — Syria's U.N. food and

fication and reassurances would be both wise and welcome. Hussein Ibish is a columnist at NOW and The National (UAE). He is also a senior fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine. The Christian Science Monitor As Egypt squeezes Gaza, Hamas looks increasingly cornered Christa Case Bryant, Ahmed Aldabba Januar

o why has the Syrian regime recognized the Palestinian state now? A senior source said: The reasons are clear; this is a Syrian-Israeli courtship. Damascus's recognition of the Palestinian state today means it has officially acknowledged the 1967 borders, thus acknowledging that Israel has the right to

n the political ferment elsewhere in the region. "The conditions for massive public reaction are ripe," Ghaith al- Omani, the executive director of the American Task Force on Palestine, said. "If things go down that path, it would be highly destabilizing." The United States continues to work on European allies and th

a WikiLeaks cable that brilliantly foreshadowed how environmental stresses would fuel the uprising. Sent on Nov. 8, 2008, from the U.S. Embassy in Damascus to the State Department, the cable details how, in light of what was a devastating Syrian drought — it lasted from 2006-10 — Syria's U.N. food and

ication and reassurances would be both wise and welcome. Hussein Ibish is a columnist at NOW and The National (UAE). He is also a senior fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine. Article 5. The Christian Science Monitor As Egypt squeezes Gaza, Hamas looks increasingly cornered Christa Case Bryant, Ahmed Ald

o why has the Syrian regime recognized the Palestinian state now? A senior source said: The reasons are clear; this is a Syrian-Israeli courtship. Damascus's recognition of the Palestinian state today means it has officially acknowledged the 1967 borders, thus acknowledging that Israel has the right to

n the political ferment elsewhere in the region. "The conditions for massive public reaction are ripe," Ghaith al- Omari, the executive director of the American Task Force on Palestine, said. "If things go down that path, it would be highly destabilizing." The United States continues to work on European allies and th