Lebanon

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=3206&sec=1&title=REESA_COHEN_STONE_ON_ISRAELI_ELECTIONS:_WIN_OR_LOSE_IT%27S_HOW_THEY_DON%27T_PLAY_THE_GAME "Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates." Gore Vidal About 10 days ago, my daughter spent a day in Jerusalem with some cousins...

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3520/israel-redefines-victory Israel is redefining its concept of military victory in a Middle East dominated by terrorist organizations turned quasi-state actors. Once, decisive, unmistakable victories, accompanied by conquests of territory that had been used to stage attacks...

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3520/israel-redefines-victory Israel is redefining its concept of military victory in a Middle East dominated by terrorist organizations turned quasi-state actors. Once, decisive, unmistakable victories, accompanied by conquests of territory that had been used to stage attacks...

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2012/12/the-useful-myth-that-obama-now-likes.html Reality, especially in 2012, is very hard to face. So many hopes dashed; so many bad things happening. So people can be forgiven for taking refuge in wishful thinking. Sometimes, not telling the truth...

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2012/12/the-useful-myth-that-obama-now-likes.html Reality, especially in 2012, is very hard to face. So many hopes dashed; so many bad things happening. So people can be forgiven for taking refuge in wishful thinking. Sometimes, not telling the truth...

http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/comment/hizbollah-doubles-down-as-its-allies-in-syria-collapse#full In a speech last Sunday, Hizbollah's secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah, affirmed that the rebels fighting the regime of President Bashar Al Assad could not defeat him. "The situation in Syria is getting more complicated,"...

http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/comment/hizbollah-doubles-down-as-its-allies-in-syria-collapse#full In a speech last Sunday, Hizbollah's secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah, affirmed that the rebels fighting the regime of President Bashar Al Assad could not defeat him. "The situation in Syria is getting more complicated,"...

http://jcpa.org/article/the-day-after-scenario-in-syria/ Vol. 12, No. 30 18 December 2012 The moment of truth is approaching in Syria. Bashar Assad’s regime is fighting a rearguard battle and has already lost control over large parts of the country. Syria’s...

http://jcpa.org/article/the-day-after-scenario-in-syria/ Vol. 12, No. 30 18 December 2012 The moment of truth is approaching in Syria. Bashar Assad’s regime is fighting a rearguard battle and has already lost control over large parts of the country. Syria’s...

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2012/12/egypt-democratically-adopts-anti.html The victory in the referendum on the Constitution is the fourth straight Muslim Brotherhood success-including the overthrow of President Husni Mubarak’s regime with army assistance, the parliamentary election and the presidential election--in the process...