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By David Ignatius | April 28, 2011 01:51 AM |
Tom Donilon, President Barack Obama’s national security adviser, has a reputation as a “process guy,” meaning that he runs an orderly decision-making system at the National Security Council, and as a “political guy” with a feel for Capitol Hill and the media.
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By Michael Young | April 28, 2011 10:56 AM |
The Obama administration’s policy toward Syria has been narrowly portrayed as vacillating between heart and mind.
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By Rami G. Khouri | April 26, 2011 12:44 AM |
Syria is now the critical country to watch in the Arab world, after the homegrown regime changes in Tunisia and Egypt, and the imminent changes in Yemen and Libya.
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Palestine united
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Daily Star Editorial | April 30, 2011 01:30 AM |
The nascent Palestinian reconciliation, to be consummated next Wednesday in Cairo, is a welcome step that should result in a unified and stronger push for statehood led by the right group – a united Palestinian people.
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Turkish concern
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April 29, 2011 01:29 AM |
Thursday’s visit to Damascus by high-level Turkish politicians presents Bashar Assad with a perfect – and perhaps timely – opportunity to hear the case for pursuing reform and making the difficult but unlikely decision to end the crackdown on protesters across Syria.
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Obama must accept budgetary pain, then gain
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By David Ignatius | April 23, 2011 12:09 AM (Last Updated: 23/04/2011 12:15 AM) |
It’s a truth of economics and life that if you have bad news coming, take the hit early and get it behind you. You can’t start building until the debris is out of the way.
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Why Sharjah’s women breed confidence
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By Rami G. Khouri | April 23, 2011 12:09 AM (Last Updated: 23/04/2011 12:09 AM) |
The ongoing citizen revolts across the Arab world make me feel good, but what I encountered earlier this week at the Sharjah Women’s Higher College of Technology makes me feel even more confident that the Arab future is in good hands.
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Beware the wrath of the rural Arab poor
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By Rami G. Khouri | April 20, 2011 12:00 AM (Last Updated: 21/04/2011 01:40 AM) |
One of the important common features of many of the current uprisings against Arab governments by their own people has been the fact that poor and rural populations have often led the challenge to existing power structures dominated by wealthy urban elites.
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Goldstone, the person and the process
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By Rami G. Khouri | April 16, 2011 01:05 AM (Last Updated: 16/04/2011 01:05 AM) |
Controversy is good, if it helps to promote truth and justice, and this is what we have now in relation to the 2010 “Goldstone Report” about the conduct of Israel and Hamas during the 2008-09 Gaza war.
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Egypt’s three wise men and the transition to democracy
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By David Ignatius | April 14, 2011 12:00 AM (Last Updated: 14/04/2011 01:29 AM) |
They make an unlikely trio of “founding fathers” for the new Egypt: One is a wily old-school politician, the second is a reticent scientist who won the Nobel Peace Prize, and the third is a hard-nosed business tycoon.
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No surprise: Spring always follows Winter
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By Rami G. Khouri | April 13, 2011 12:00 AM (Last Updated: 13/04/2011 02:34 PM) |
One of the great misconceptions about the current revolts for freedom, citizen rights and human dignity that continue to spread across the Arab world is that they came as a surprise, emerging from nowhere.
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An Israeli initiative worth watching
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By Rami G. Khouri | April 09, 2011 12:00 AM (Last Updated: 09/04/2011 02:28 AM) |
The historic transformations under way in many Arab countries have temporarily overshadowed other major regional issues.
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Libya informs us about the wily ways of the weak
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By David Ignatius | April 09, 2011 12:00 AM (Last Updated: 09/04/2011 02:28 AM) |
The weak have a new power in the modern media age: Their suffering is visible to millions of well-intentioned people around the world who are likely to support humanitarian intervention to rescue them from their plight.
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Egypt’s democracy romance excites, and discourages
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By David Ignatius | April 08, 2011 12:00 AM (Last Updated: 08/04/2011 02:18 AM) |
The political battle for Egypt’s future began in earnest last month when the ruling military council held a referendum to approve its amendments to the Constitution.
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The shameful Arab silence on Syria
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By Michael Young | April 07, 2011 12:00 AM (Last Updated: 08/04/2011 02:18 AM) |
Many publicists have excitedly described the liberating promise of Arab satellite stations.
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When protective Arab fathers are wardens
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By Rami G. Khouri | April 06, 2011 12:00 AM (Last Updated: 06/04/2011 05:28 PM) |
Political scientists and other analysts will spend years studying the many dimensions of the current citizen revolt in the Arab world.
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