Syrians protesting against the Assad regime in London and elsewhere abroad say that Syrian Embassy officials have harassed them and that their families in Syria have been intimidated, beaten and even tortured. Ghias Aljundi, who fled Syria 13 years ago, said he received phone calls from people claiming to be from the embassy after he got involved in the almost-weekly protests in Britain's capital.
The U.S. and its collaborators are also trying to divide and undermine the two wings of the resistance - the Islamic forces and the secular nationalist forces - which together overthrew the U.S.-backed dictatorships in Egypt and Tunisia. There is now a concerted U.S. effort to turn these same political forces against two regimes in the region that have opposed U.S. domination in the past - Libya and Syria. Even if a great deal of Syria's internal situation is difficult to understand, it is important to note that in this unfolding struggle clear statements of support for the Syrian government and against U.S. destabilization efforts have come from Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, Hizbullah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon and several exiled leaders of Hamas, the Palestinian ...
BEIRUT - The Arab League sent monitors to Syria Monday, even though President Bashar Assad's regime has only intensified its crackdown on dissent in the week since agreeing to the Arab plan to stop the bloodshed. Activists say government forces have killed several hundred civilians in the past week. At least 23 more deaths were reported Monday from intense shelling in the center of the country, just hours before the first 60 monitors were to arrive. The opposition says thousands of government troops have been besieging the Baba Amr district of in the central city of Homs for days and the government is preparing a massive assault on the area.
WASHINGTON - The U.S.-led attacks against an autocrat in oil- rich Libya have opened the Obama administration to questions about why it's holding back from more robust support for opposition forces challenging other dictators. What is the difference, some have asked, between the situation in Libya and the uprisings in Bahrain, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Syria and even sub-Saharan African nations such as Ivory Coast?
The people of Lebanon have spent the better part of three decades living under the threat of violence, assassinations, and other forms of intimidation. Despite this, they and their leaders continue to work for a peaceful and democratic future, even as Syria, Iran, and their Lebanese proxies seek to undermine Lebanese democracy and institutions.
My wife and I own a company, Wunderley Inc., headquartered in Greensburg, that designs and imports unique handmade furniture and lighting products from Morocco and Syria. We founded this company 17 years ago and have been employing local people in Greensburg ever since. Two to three times per year, we are in Syria, where we work with local artisans to produce our products, which we then sell in a wholesale environment in North America. We have watched Syria evolve from a country with very rigid control over its people under Hafez Assad (the father) to a more modern government under Bashar Assad (the son). We maintain very close personal relationships with our business partners in various parts of Syria -- most even call us "family." These folks, as well as the majority of the Syrian cit...
While pondering the current crisis in U.S.-Pakistan relations, my mind was drawn to a conversation that I had years ago with a Druze living on the Golan Heights. After hearing the familiar refrain about how terrible the Israelis were to have annexed the Golan, I remarked that Israel had done far more to develop the plateau than Syria. I then asked him why he would prefer to live in a poor police state instead of a wealthier, more free democracy. His answer was logical: As long as there was even the slightest chance that Israel would eventually return the Golan to Syria as part of a comprehensive peace agreement, he would hedge his bets by publicly denouncing Israel at every opportunity. If the Golan stayed Israeli, he knew that the Israeli government wouldn't care about his denunciation...
BEIRUT - Armed men killed 120 Syrian security forces and torched government buildings Monday in a northern region where troops have unleashed deadly assaults on protesters for days, Syria said. The government vowed to respond "decisively," hinting at an even more brutal crackdown by a regime known for ruthlessly crushing dissent.
Syria withdrew from Lebanon unilaterally without first having concluded an agreement to regulate the withdrawal process and its aftermath. Some interpreted this as a victory for one side in Lebanon and a defeat for the other. But even supposing that the Syrian presence had been an "occupation," one would have presumed that the Syrian withdrawal and recognition of Lebanese sovereignty would have satisfied those who had retroactively labeled the Syrian presence an occupation and who would now be able to close the book on all those issues that they, again retroactively, termed "sacrifices in the struggle against the occupation." In fact, Michel Aoun was the only Lebanese politician who regarded the Syrian presence as an occupation at the time the Lebanese invited the Syrians in. It is, the...
Take, as an example, the Israeli-Palestinian Annapolis peace process, launched in November 2007. secretary of State Condoleezza Rice managed to lead a change in policy within the administration and to renew efforts toward a permanent-status peace deal after a seven-year hiatus. Just before the Annapolis gathering, 66 former U.S. senior officials and experts, spearheaded by Brent Scowcroft, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Lee Hamilton, sent a letter to the president and secretary of state welcoming the new effort and counseling that an "inclusive" process that would involve (even indirectly) and incentivize actors such as Syria and Hamas would be much more likely to succeed than one that excluded them.
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