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...bold challenge to the rule of President Bashar Assad. The attack was carried out by as many as four Islamic militants shouting Muslim slogans in the heart of Damascus's diplomatic quarter not far from Assad's own residence - in short, one of the most heavily protected neighborhoods in Syria, if not the Middle East. The attackers failed to kill any American diplomats, and Syrian security guards apparently managed to slay three of the assailants. But that doesn't mean the terrorists were bumbling amateurs...
...have had al-Qaeda sympathies. The FBI investigates other leads, but, as with the events after 9/11, Dick Cheney, now President, uses the tenuous al-Qaeda connection to push his own harsh agenda. He calls for a Patriot Act 3, suspending most civil liberties, and for military engagement with Syria. An already grotesque world situation keeps growing tesquer...
...itself from U.S. foreign policy; if the West and Israel stopped bombing and humiliating the Arab states; if the Palestinians were given their own state and it was supported by the West to the same degree as the state of Israel is supported; if we stopped demonizing Iran and Syria; if we opened a meaningful and respectful dialogue with the states of the Middle East; if we stopped supporting corrupt Arab regimes; if Britain and America stopped their gun-running activities; and if Muslim leaders in Britain were making it sufficiently clear in the public forum that the taking...
...Ismail Haniyeh may be the elected prime minister, but he's only one voice in a complex Hamas leadership structure that combines a diversity of political instincts across its military and political wings, and across its geographic dispersion between Gaza, the West Bank, Israeli prisons and Syria. His priority in accepting a political deal that includes the Beirut principles is not to restart the peace process with Israel; it's to remove the obstacles to Western donor aid flowing to the Palestinian Authority so that the salaries can be paid and Hamas can get on with governing. Haniyeh will...
...rebuild - and where is the money coming from? Iran, of course. The existing Lebanese government cannot match those sums of money, so who will the Lebanese people vote for when an election is called? Hizballah, naturally. Then Israel will be surrounded by a Hizballah government, a Hamas government, Syria and Iran. Radical Muslims will have achieved just what they have wanted: the eradication of Israel by electoral methods. Couldn't Bush's and Blair's advisers have seen coming the Islamic takeover of the Middle East? Ted Coote Boksburg, South Africa A Modern-Day Marco Polo While on holiday exploring...