Posted in Syria, Barry Rubin on May 9th, 2008 No Comments »
From Barry Rubin
There was a great item on the Harry’s Place blog by the anonymous Davem who spent a long time in Syria studying Arabic. (If you haven’t read his long “Syria Diary” posted on the site some months ago, you have missed what is probably the best piece of first-hand reportage from that country […]
Posted in Alan Dowty, Harvey Sicherman, Barry Rubin, Adam Garfinkle, Nuclear, Israel, Iran on Apr 14th, 2008 3 Comments »
From Alan Dowty
So the focus shifts to deterrence. Both Charles Krauthammer (here) and Zev Chafets (here) hold out little hope for international efforts to block Iran getting the bomb, or for military action to that end (though Chafets suggests that Israel might be able “in the best case” to weaken and delay Iran’s program). […]
Posted in Islam in West, Barry Rubin, Josef Joffe on Mar 29th, 2008 1 Comment »
From Josef Joffe
The British website LiveLeak.com has removed Fitna, intoning that it had to “place the safety of its staff above all else.” You would have thought that this is a typical reaction for all those “Euroweenies,” as the satirist Peter O”Rourke once called America’s cousins from across the sea: Let’s cave in to the […]
Posted in Barry Rubin, Iraq on Mar 21st, 2008 No Comments »
In November 2002, the Chronicle of Higher Education asked a number of scholars this question: “What will the world be like five years after a war with Iraq?” To mark the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, MESH asked all of the respondents to revisit their predictions. This week, MESH is posting the responses it […]
Posted in Barry Rubin, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Israel on Feb 24th, 2008 No Comments »
From Barry Rubin
Jonathan Spyer’s article, “Lebanon 2006,” appears in the new issue of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal. This is the first analysis to include the findings of the Winograd Commission. Spyer points to the failure of the Israeli political leadership to define a clear set of goals in the 2006 […]
Posted in David Schenker, Barry Rubin, Syria, Michael Young, Andrew Exum, Lebanon, Israel, Jon Alterman, Hezbollah, Terrorism on Feb 13th, 2008 8 Comments »
From Andrew Exum
Imad Mughniyah is dead, killed in Damascus by a car bomb at the age of 45. Mughniyah was believed to have been Hezbollah’s chief of military operations, and his assassination marks the first time a major figure in the movement has been killed since secretary-general Abbas Musawi in 1992—an assassination which brought the […]
Posted in Charles Hill, Bruce Jentleson, Barry Rubin, Israel, Diplomacy, Culture on Feb 7th, 2008 2 Comments »
Elie Kedourie (1926-1992) was a rigorous interpreter of Middle Eastern history and contemporary affairs, famous for his penetrating style and principled conservatism. In 1970 he published an essay on “The Middle East and the Powers,” as the opening piece in a collected volume named after its most renowned article, The Chatham House Version. Below, we […]
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