Tag Archives: Syria

Syria-sly bad behavior

Posted on 04/26/2010 by Soccerdad

The Washington Post gets it right: BASHAR AL-ASSAD is proving to be an embarrassment for the Obama administration. In pursuit of President Obama’s policy of “engagement” with U.S. adversaries, the State Department has dispatched several senior envoys to Damascus for … Continue reading →

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TGIF briefs, Obama Middle East edition

Posted on 04/23/2010 by Meryl Yourish

Once more unto the breach: George Mitchell arrives in Israel for yet another round of Obama diktats for Israel and little or nothing demanded of the Palestinians. (Say, read the speech, it takes on an entirely new meaning when you … Continue reading →

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You can’t be Syria-us

Posted on 04/04/2010 by Soccerdad

Barry Rubin mines the Pesach Haggadah to illustrate how Syria has been working against American interests in the Middle East: Back to Ford and Syria. Yet even if Syria is not building apartments in east Jerusalem, it might still be … Continue reading →

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Briefly

Posted on 03/31/2010 by Meryl Yourish

Obama’s Syrian outreach is working just dandy: Since Obama has named an ambassador to Syria, the results are clear. Syria is now discussing “resistance” with Walid Jumblatt, the man who had to abase himself to his new Syrian overlord in … Continue reading →

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The Obama outreach dividends

Posted on 03/29/2010 by Meryl Yourish

Besides pressuring Israel into making more and more concessions without similar actions from the Palestinians, the Obama administration has appointed a new ambassador to Syria, given Syrian actions in Lebanon a complete pass (and in fact, accepted the de facto … Continue reading →

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Israel’s Axis of Evil

Posted on 03/01/2010 by Meryl Yourish

The heads of Hamas and Hezbullah met in Damascus with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Bashar Assad to plot Israel’s destruction. How is the Obama administration handling the fact that Syria hosted the heads of two terrorist organizations and one terrorist-supporting state? … Continue reading →

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Weaning Syria away from Iran

Posted on 02/25/2010 by Soccerdad

Lots of foreign policy sophisticates have told us that the American way forward in the Middle East is to engage Syria and draw it out of Iran’s orbit. Last week the Washington Post editorialized in response to President Obama’s naming … Continue reading →

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Thursday pre-snow snarks

Posted on 01/28/2010 by Meryl Yourish

Will it snow? Won’t it snow? I don’t know. They say so. (Let it snow. I have a Jeep, and I’m here to drive it.) Europeans are big fat liars: So, they say they’re cutting trade with Iran, and yet, … Continue reading →

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The Turkey-Syria lovefest (and Israel hatefest)

Posted on 12/24/2009 by Meryl Yourish

You have to read between the lines to really appreciate what the Turkish Prime Minister is saying at this press conference. The Bashar Assad stuff, well, it’s standard Bashar bullshit. The man responsible for the iron-fisted control over Lebanon, the … Continue reading →

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Wednesday SNB

Posted on 08/05/2009 by Meryl Yourish

Human rights, shmuman rights: The U.K. is perfectly fine with backing an economic pact between Syria and the EU in spite of its “concerns” about Syria’s human rights violations. Because after all, the almighty Euro is more important than the … Continue reading →

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Iran plane crash cause: Exploding bomb parts

Posted on 08/02/2009 by Meryl Yourish

The plane that crashed in Iran two weeks ago that killed everyone on board crashed because it was carrying arms to Hezbollah. According to the sources, the aircraft was carrying a large number of modern fuses composed of 2 kilograms … Continue reading →

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Tuesday SNB

Posted on 07/28/2009 by Meryl Yourish

Mitchell reports to his master: I’m sorry, but that’s the way it looks to me. Mitchell is in Israel, talking settlements with Netanyahu, and he’s reporting back to Abbas that there’s “still a gap” in negotiations about what to freeze. … Continue reading →

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Monday SNB

Posted on 07/27/2009 by Meryl Yourish

(That’s Snark News Briefs to you, buster.) Weapons cache? What weapons cache? Lebanon is doubling down on the next war with Israel by (of course) siding with Hezbullah and insisting that the arms cache that exploded was arms “left behind … Continue reading →

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Snarky Briefs, Thursday edition

Posted on 07/09/2009 by Meryl Yourish

“Moderate” Palestinian Prime Minister says Israel is “Judaizing” Jerusalem. Because it’s not like Jerusalem was, oh, I don’t know, built by Jews, or anything. He also says Israel is “ethnically cleansing” the Jordan Valley, but hey, he’s a moderate that … Continue reading →

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United States to return ambassador to Damascus

Posted on 06/24/2009 by Soccerdad

The New York Times and Washington Post are both reporting that the Obama administration intends to send reestablish diplomatic ties with Syria at the ambassadorial level. Here’s the Washington Post giving the administration’s line: The acting assistant secretary of state … Continue reading →

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The world’s smallest violin for Syria

Posted on 05/13/2009 by Soccerdad

Syria’s upset: Syria’s Tishrin newspaper said U.S. policies of isolation, blockades and sanctions adopted by the former U.S. administration “have put the United States in an intractable impasse.” It said Washington can reverse this path if it stepped up its … Continue reading →

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Why sanctions against Syria were renewed

Posted on 05/11/2009 by Soccerdad

Why did the Obama administration renew sanctions against Syria? According to the Washington Post: The revival of a transit route that officials had declared all but closed comes as the Obama administration is exploring a new diplomatic dialogue with Syria. … Continue reading →

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Engaging Syria

Posted on 03/18/2009 by Soccerdad

David Schenker lays out the possibilities of American-Syrian rapprochement # U.S. diplomatic engagement with Syria comes at a particularly sensitive time, just a few months before the Lebanese elections, where the “March 14″ ruling coalition faces a stiff challenge from … Continue reading →

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The AP’s lying eyes

Posted on 10/27/2008 by Meryl Yourish

Who are you going to trust? The AP bias or your lying eyes? Get a load of this jaw-dropping bias in the lead: Families in this village near the Iraqi border buried loved ones Monday who they said were killed … Continue reading →

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U.S. Special Forces land in Syria

Posted on 10/26/2008 by Meryl Yourish

Take a Sunday afternoon nap, and you wake up to the news that some jihadis on the Syrian/Iraqi border have been taken out. An official Syrian spokesman confirmed reports by the country’s state-run television and witnesses, who said that four … Continue reading →

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