Posted on June 27th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Some interesting details on the Shebaa Farms issue from Nicholas Blanford in The National, an English-language paper published in Abu Dhabi :
“Securing the liberation of the Shebaa Farms has been a cornerstone of Fouad Siniora’s diplomacy since 2005 when he headed his first government. Mr Siniora said he believes that an Israeli withdrawal from the [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East Peace Process, Shebaa Farms, Syria, UN Peacekeeping, United Nations
Posted on June 2nd, 2008 by Marian Houk
Since the 6 September Israeli airstrike, the Syrian government first razed the site, then built a new structure there. This, apparently, is considered suspicious.
Today, the International Atomic Energy Agency announced that Syria has agreed to “allow in UN inspectors to probe allegations that the country was building a nuclear reactor at a remote site [...]
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Filed under: Disarmament, International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Israel, Nuclear technology and weapons, Syria
Posted on April 26th, 2008 by Marian Houk
ABC reported after the much-anticipated briefing by the U.S. Administration to members of Congress on Israel’s attack on a Syrian target last September that “Committee chairman Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, and ranking member Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., are furious with the Bush administration for failing to brief Congress until eight months after Israeli jets bombed a suspected [...]
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Posted on April 25th, 2008 by Marian Houk
A Guest Post from Aletheia Kallos/MD:
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http://www.stratfor.com/geopolitical_diary/geopolitical_diary_syria_and_israel_hint_peace_talks
Geopolitical Diary: Syria and Israel Hint at Peace Talks
April 24, 2008 | 0154 GMT
The morning of April 21, we woke up to a report in the Syrian media saying that Israel had agreed to hand the Golan Heights back to Syria in exchange for a peace agreement. The Syrian [...]
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Filed under: Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Nuclear technology and weapons, Syria
Posted on March 31st, 2008 by Marian Houk
Israel’s Prime Minister has sent about 20 messages to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in the last year, feeling out the possibility of resuming peace talks between the two countries, according to a report by correspondent Barak Ravid published on Sunday in Haaretz newspaper.
The source for the story was an unnamed “senior Israeli minister”, who told [...]
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Posted on March 29th, 2008 by Marian Houk
In advance of the Arab League Summit Meeting — which is being attended by very few heads of state or government — that opened Saturday in Damascus, the UN rushed through several steps in its preparation for the formation of the tribunal to judge those responsible for the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq [...]
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Filed under: Hariri Commission of Inquiry, International Tribunals, Lebanon, Syria, The Hague, UN Secretary-General
Posted on February 23rd, 2008 by Marian Houk
Haaretz’s Meron Rapoport writes today that “Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D’Alema termed the assassination of Imad Mughniyah ‘terror’ in an interview to be published today in the popular Italian weekly L’espresso. He also said that Israeli assassinations of Hamas officials ’serve as an alibi for terror’. Concerning Mughniyah’s killing, ‘by my definition, [...]
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Posted on October 24th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Joshua Landis’ SyriaComment posts today a report from the Iraqi blogger Riverbend, who has now left Iraq and arrived in Syria.
Riverbend writes…”It took me at least three weeks to teach myself to walk properly again- with head lifted, not constantly looking behind me. It is estimated that there are at least 1.5 million Iraqis in [...]
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Posted on October 22nd, 2007 by Marian Houk
The Associated Press reported over the weekend that “The United Nations said an interpreter responsible for an erroneous report that Syria has a nuclear facility has been reprimanded and the organization has apologized to Syria’s UN Mission. Earlier this week, Syria denied that one of its representatives told the UN General Assembly’s committee that [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Syria, UN Administration, United Nations
Posted on October 19th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The UN, predictably, is moving to punish one of its staff members who is accused of making a mistake in interpretation from Arabic to English — which, as a result, caused apparent misinformation when picked up and published in a UN Press Release.
The UN spokesperson told journalists yesterday that “Action will be taken against the [...]
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