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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 18, 2012 4 Comments
In late June I noted that something seemed to have changed in Syria, that the threat to the Assad regime seemed more real than ever. A massive explosion in Syria confirms that indeed things have changed.  The Syrian defense minister and a brother-in-law of Bashar...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 27, 2012 16 Comments
There seems to be a change in Syria, a worsening of the situation for Assad. I can’t tell if this is the turning point, a turning point, or just a bump in Assad’s road to staying in power with the military help of Iran, Hezbollah...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 20, 2012 13 Comments
With so much going on in the domestic political arena, it’s easy for attention to get distracted from the Iranian-Hezollah-Russian attempt to keep Bashar Assad in power. Other than when there is a heavy one-day body count, Syria is not in the U.S. news media...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 15, 2012 15 Comments
Not the destruction in September 2007 of the nuke facility likely being built with the help of the Norks. Via Jerusalem Post, a story I had not heard before, Syria’s chemical weapons program has been focus of Israeli intelligence operations since the mid-1970s. It was...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 28, 2012 40 Comments
This is a little scary, particularly if it were put in the wrong hands. Via The Times of Israel: A new, unprecedented computer virus called “Flame” (or “sKyWIper”) has hit Iran, the West Bank, and other Middle Eastern locations. It is already considered one of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 20, 2012 19 Comments
It looks like Obama is going to get the “grand bargain” which has been the point of U.S. policy towards Iran since the Obama administration stood silently as Iranians took to the streets in June 2009. The grand bargain theory assures the Iranian theocracy’s continued control over...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2011 12 Comments
When someone finds himself so in need of criticizing the U.S. that he ends up defending the brutal Iranian regime which for over 30 years has funded anti-U.S. and anti-Israel groups around the globe and sought to export Islamist fundamentalism, then all credibility has been lost....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 10, 2011 4 Comments
I saw this coming from a mile away.  Actually, from two months away. Obama insisted on a U.N. Security Council Resolution authorizing a no-fly zone in Libya.  But the U.S. and NATO attacks on Libya have exceeded the U.N. mandate.  What was hailed as a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 10, 2011 11 Comments
The carnage in Syria continues at a dramatic pace, with the Syrian armed forces and/or police routinesly using live fire against protesters. Yet there is virtual silence from the world community and the Obama adminsitration.  Some recent words of  condemnation, but not much more.  No...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2011 3 Comments
In an event which should surprise no one, Hezbollah, the Iranian proxy in Lebanon, has taken control of the government in anticipation of indictments of senior Hezbollah officials in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri: Saad Hariri, whose government was toppled after...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 23, 2010 12 Comments
There are many take-aways from the Wikileaks documents dump.  The left is focused on the failure of the U.S. to stop Iraqi-on-Iraqi brutality and torture.  But there is a theme in the documents which has enormous implications not so much for the past, but for...
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