Archive for the 'Lebanon' Category

Lebanese elections: Going up in Smoke?

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

Israel’s Strike – Was it a Warning to Iran? For Lebanon?

Posted by Joshua on Monday, September 17th, 2007

Israel Air Strike on Syria Confirmed

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Hamidi on New Visa Requirements for Iraqis

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, September 6th, 2007

Fatah al-Islam Finished as Political Battle Heats UP

Posted by Joshua on Monday, September 3rd, 2007

News Round Up (1 Sept 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

Germany Restores Aid & Analyzing Aoun

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

Jihadists and the Syrian Border – Saudi Press

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

France Could Engage Syria in “Spectacular Way,” If…

Posted by Joshua on Monday, August 27th, 2007

Lebanon’s 2006 War One Year on

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, August 18th, 2007

Sharaa Statement of Syria’s Foreign Policy

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, August 18th, 2007

“UNIFIL – Peacekeepers in the Line of Fire,” by Timur Goksel

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, August 11th, 2007

Lebanon: A Test of Wills

Posted by Joshua on Friday, August 10th, 2007

Does Bush’s Executive Order Criminalize Lebanon’s Democratic Opposition?

Posted by Joshua on Friday, August 10th, 2007

More Commentary on the Metn Elections

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

What Does the Gemayel Loss in the Metn Mean?

Posted by Joshua on Monday, August 6th, 2007

Metn election a nail biter as both sides claim victory

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, August 5th, 2007

Metn Madness

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, August 4th, 2007

News Round Up (4 August 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, August 4th, 2007

Syria’s Policy of Sitting on its Hands

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, July 29th, 2007

News Round Up (27 July 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Friday, July 27th, 2007

“Dialogue is in Syria’s and America’s interests,” by Cordesman

Posted by Joshua on Friday, July 27th, 2007

The truth about Syria?

Posted by Alex on Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Syria Looks for a Lebanon Deal

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

“Improving US and Syrian Relations: Some Possible Beginnings,” by Anthony Cordesman

Posted by Joshua on Monday, July 23rd, 2007

“Getting Hezbollah to Behave,” by Nicholas Noe

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, July 21st, 2007

No Deals with Syria over Lebanon – or Anywhere Else

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, July 21st, 2007

U.N. probe has identified people who may have been involved in Hariri assassination

Posted by Joshua on Friday, July 13th, 2007

Is Amal Saad-Ghorayeb disseminating Misinformation?

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, July 12th, 2007

Will Syria and Israel talk, fight or wait?

Posted by Alex on Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

News Round Up (July 5, 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Friday, July 6th, 2007

News Round Up (2 July 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Monday, July 2nd, 2007

Gambill on US Policy in Lebanon and Fatah al-Islam

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, July 1st, 2007

Syria is Not Against the UN

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, June 28th, 2007

“UNIFIL and Eido Car Bombs the Same: Murr Blames al-Qaida” by T_desco

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

“Syria Not Behind Killing of Spaniards” Responds Second Syria Analyst

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

What Are the Italians Doing in Damascus?

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

What Will Syria Do in Lebanon? (15 June 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Monday, June 25th, 2007

“Iran’s and Syria’s plan: an interpretation,” by Michael Young

Posted by Joshua on Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Patraeus – Syria Door to Foreign Fighters; Murr – No Evidence yet of Syria Support for Fatah Islam

Posted by Joshua on Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Al-Qaida Arrests in Lebanon

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

News Round Up (19 June 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Palestine and Lebanon: The US in Quicksand

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, June 17th, 2007

“A summer of war or peace?” By Patrick Seale

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, June 16th, 2007

UN’s Mid East Envoy Slams Isolation of Syria and UN Kowtowing to US.

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, June 14th, 2007

News Round Up (13 June 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

The Presidential Plebiscite and Pageantry: What does it Mean?

Posted by Joshua on Monday, June 4th, 2007

News Round Up (28 May 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

News Round Up (12 May 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Friday, May 25th, 2007

“Lebanon Unrest Puts Hariri Tribunal In Peril” by Solomon

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

U.S. policy turnabout may enable Israeli-Syrian talks

Posted by Alex on Monday, May 21st, 2007

News Round Up (19 May 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, May 20th, 2007

“A Review Of Mr. Assad’s First Term in office” by Ehsani

Posted by Joshua on Friday, May 18th, 2007

Draft U.N. Security Council Resolution Ready for Tribunal

Posted by Joshua on Friday, May 18th, 2007

News Round-Up

Posted by Alex on Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Bernard Gwertzman (CFR consulting editor) interviews Joshua Landis

Posted by Alex on Monday, May 14th, 2007

Hariri Tribunal set for May 22?

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, May 13th, 2007

Assad Rules out Cooperation with Hariri Tribunal if Sovereignty Threatened

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, May 10th, 2007

News Roundup (8 May 2007) Rice Says Yes to Chapter VII Tribunal

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

Lebanese Certain Chapter VII Tribunal Will Pass UN Vote End of May

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, May 6th, 2007

Tribunal Tribulations – Is the Hariri Court Dead?

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

News Round Up (26 April 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Will the Hariri Tribunal get UN approval?

Posted by Joshua on Friday, April 20th, 2007

“Hizballah and Syria: Outgrowing the Proxy Relationship,” by Emile El-Hokayem

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, April 19th, 2007

The Truth about Syria: Will the UN vote for a Tribunal?

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, April 12th, 2007

“US backing ‘covert war’ against Hizbullah” CSM

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

“Lebanon’s Coming Crisis” by Firas Maksad

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, April 5th, 2007

Seymour Hersh: “We may never find out who ordered Hariri assassination”

Posted by Joshua on Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Pelosi’s Trip to Damascus

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, March 31st, 2007

The Arab League Summit: Arabism is Back – Syria is In

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, March 29th, 2007

“Farid Ghadry, Syria’s Chalabi: From Washington to Damascus,” by Salim Abraham

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, March 25th, 2007

France Urged Israel to Bomb Syria

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

A Response to Michael Young

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Brammertz V – Comments and Contextualization (by t_desco)

Posted by Joshua on Monday, March 19th, 2007

Hizbullah’s MP Nawar Sahili Interviewed by Hugh Macleod

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, March 18th, 2007

Readers Responses to my Last Post

Posted by Joshua on Monday, March 12th, 2007

Counting Lebanon’s Shiites as Slaves: Why the Lebanon Deal is Obstructed

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, March 10th, 2007

“Iranian General Defects with Hizbullah’s Secrets,” by Nicholas Noe

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

Has a Lebanon Deal Been Clinched?

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

Saudis and Syrians …Brothers or Rivals?

Posted by Alex on Monday, March 5th, 2007

News Round Up (3 March 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

News Round Up (27 February 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

“Lebanese Sunnis Deeply Divided over Relations with Hizbullah” by Anonymous

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Bilal Saab on Jihadis in Lebanon

Posted by Joshua on Monday, February 26th, 2007

Seymour Hersh, “The Administration’s New Policy on Terrorism”

Posted by Joshua on Monday, February 26th, 2007

Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia: Three’s a Crowd

Posted by Alex on Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Will Saudi Arabia Solve America’s Problems?

Posted by Joshua on Monday, February 19th, 2007

Feb 14 Raises the Rhetoric

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, February 15th, 2007

News Round Up (13 February 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

Is Syria Supplying Weapons to Iraqi Militias?

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, February 10th, 2007

CIA and Syrian Intelligence in Lebanon

Posted by Joshua on Monday, February 5th, 2007

Nasrallah: “No Plan for Sunni Conversions”

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

Reactions to Revelations of Israeli-Syrian Unofficial Peace Negotiations

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

CIA Gets the Go-Ahead to Fight Hizbullah

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

News Round Up (6 January 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, January 6th, 2007

Andrew Exum and Nicholas Noe Debate Hizbullah’s Summer War

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, January 6th, 2007

Could the US be Planning Covert Action in Lebanon and beyond?

Posted by Joshua on Friday, December 22nd, 2006

For and Against Dialogue with Syria

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, December 21st, 2006

Meyrav Wurmser “Neocons Expected Israel to Attack Syria”

Posted by Joshua on Monday, December 18th, 2006

News Round Up (17 December 2006)

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, December 17th, 2006

“President Bashar al-Asad Interviewed,” by Alix Van Buren

Posted by Joshua on Friday, December 15th, 2006

News Round Up (12 December 2006)

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

“Concentrate on the Syrian-Israeli issue,” by Murhaf Jouejati

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, December 10th, 2006

Encouraging Sectarian War as a Means to Bring Down Asad

Posted by Joshua on Friday, December 8th, 2006

Why V.P. Sharaa’s Statement is Important

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, December 7th, 2006

V.P. Farouq al-Sharaa on the Baker Report & Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, December 7th, 2006

“SYRIA: Regime interests dictate regional policies,” by Oxford Analytica

Posted by Joshua on Monday, December 4th, 2006

The Babes of Hizbullah

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

America Must Decide between Shiites and Sunnis

Posted by Joshua on Friday, December 1st, 2006

“A Primer in Lebanese Politics,” by Uri Avnery

Posted by Joshua on Friday, December 1st, 2006

“Will There be a Last Minute Compromise in Lebanon?” by Firas Maksad

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

Three Camps on Gemayel Murder and Syria

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

“Courting Syria,” by Itamar Rabinovich

Posted by Joshua on Friday, November 24th, 2006

Post Gemayel Prospects

Posted by Joshua on Friday, November 24th, 2006

The Gemayel Assassination

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

Syria Wants Clear US Commitment to Exit Iraq

Posted by Joshua on Friday, November 17th, 2006

Is Syria Asking Too Much?

Posted by Joshua on Friday, November 17th, 2006

US Dialogue with Syria Ruled Out For Now

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, November 16th, 2006

Blanford’s Hariri Book. Syria Talks Urged by Britain

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, November 11th, 2006

Shiites Quit Lebanese Gov.

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, November 11th, 2006

News Round-Up Nov. 10 2006

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, November 11th, 2006

What is it with War in Summer 2007?

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

“Will Washington agree to Riyadh’s initiative on Lebanon?” by al-Amine

Posted by Joshua on Monday, November 6th, 2006

“Iraq War Sapping U.S. Influence in Lebanon,” Landis interview with Gwertzman of CFR

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, November 4th, 2006

Who is Couping Who in Lebanon?

Posted by Joshua on Friday, November 3rd, 2006

Landis on BBC with Mustapha

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

Lebanon War Strikes Back – Washington Accuses Syria of Crimes

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

Can Bush Bring Down Syrian Regime?

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, October 29th, 2006

Michel Kilo Will Not Be Freed

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, October 22nd, 2006

The Foreign Office says, “Engage Syria,” NSC says, “No”

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, October 22nd, 2006

How to Explain the Refusal to Talk to Syria

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, October 7th, 2006

Is Hizbullah Secular? James Baker Meets Syrian F.M.

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, October 5th, 2006

Brammertz, Opposition Releases, and Israeli Talks

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

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