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Jan 10, 2025 | 
english.aawsat.com | Amir Taheri |Hazem Saghieh |Tariq Al-Homayed |David Schenker
As they prepare to leave office, some members of the Biden administration are penning op-eds and making speeches to advise the incoming Trump team on a range of issues. The gist of their message is simple: Do what we tried to do but failed!One such issue is the perennial headache that Tehran has caused eight US presidents over almost half a century.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Tariq Al-Homayed |David Schenker |Eyad Abu Shakra
Circumstances of history beyond the scope of this column have suppressed Syrian patriotism and placed the term between scare marks. The Baath’s notorious lexicon rendered Syria, “the beating heart of Arabism," nothing more than a “qutr” (segment). "More” and “less” were made interchangeable, which speaks volumes about the difficulties of this nation building.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
english.aawsat.com | Tariq Al-Homayed |David Schenker |Hazem Saghieh |Eyad Abu Shakra
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
english.aawsat.com | Tariq Al-Homayed |David Schenker |Hazem Saghieh |Eyad Abu Shakra
Syria has been addressed hysterically, by both those supporters and the opponents, since Assad fled the country. Those in awe of what is happening have become hypersensitive to comments and criticism, while some criticism, finger-pointing, and escalation have been shockingly hysterical. That is the case despite the fact that Assad fled Damascus for Moscow and the new Syrian administration took over exactly a month ago.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
nationalinterest.org | David Schenker
Earlier this month, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi urged the European Union and the United Nations to sanction and embargo arms transfers to Israel. Last week, Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood—which controls the largest bloc in parliament—claimed that two jihadis who crossed the border to kill Israelis in solidarity with Hamas were members of the organization. All told, this has been an inauspicious run-up to the thirtieth anniversary of the 1994 Jordan-Israel peace agreement.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
en.majalla.com | David Schenker
Nearly a year since Hezbollah began attacking Israel in support of Hamas, the medium-intensity conflict has reached an inflexion point. Hezbollah had hoped to limit the scope of the fight, preferring a war of attrition with defined guardrails. With nearly 70,000 of its citizens displaced from the north, however, Israel didn’t agree and, for almost six months, has demonstrated a willingness to escalate and raise the cost for Hezbollah.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
wsj.com | David Schenker
WSJ Opinion: Don't Blame Israel FirstYour browser does not support HTML5 video. 0:00Paused0:00 / 6:13WSJ Opinion: Don't Blame Israel FirstPlay video: WSJ Opinion: Don't Blame Israel FirstHezbollah retaliated against Israel on Sunday for the July killing near Beirut of its top military commander. Hezbollah described the killing as a “red line,” and the scale of its Aug. 25 missile and drone barrage was significant.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
en.majalla.com | David Schenker
Nine months into the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, the mid-intensity conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah is escalating. Israel is killing senior Hezbollah military commanders with greater frequency; Hezbollah is launching salvos progressively further south across the border. The rhetoric is intensifying as well.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
hoover.org | David Schenker
Seven months into the war in Gaza, Arab states are not advertising their ongoing ties with Israel. Notwithstanding widespread public opprobrium of Israel in the region, however, quiet contacts persist. The most visible demonstration of the continuing Arab cooperation with the Jewish State came on April 13, during Iran’s unprecedented missile and drone attack.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
en.majalla.com | David Schenker
Will Iran's new equation curb Israel's war on Iran's proxies? last update on 24 Apr 2024For the past decade, Israel has been targeting Iranian assets and personnel in Syria. Through hundreds of airstrikes, Israel has repeatedly attacked the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force positions, as well as the theocracy’s Palestinian, Iraqi, and Lebanese proxy militias operating on Syrian territory.
