APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula articles from March 2005

APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula archives from March 2005

SYRIA - Pax Americana Is Changing - Part 17E - The Jordan & Palestinian Factors.
March 7, 2005... In dealing with Jordan and the Palestinians, as well as the Lebanese, the Baathist regime in Damascus has behaved as if these were part of Greater Syria, an old notion remodelled in the early 1970s by the late President Hafez Al-Assad. It was...

SYRIA - The Jordan Factor.(Arab Israel conflicts)
March 7, 2005... Jordan has been among the first Arab states to back the Franco-US demand that the Syrians leave Lebanon. Jordanian King Abdullah II, during a recent visit to Paris, urged Syria to comply with UN Security Council Resolution 1559 and withdraw...

SYRIA - The Palestinian Factor.(Arab-Israeli conflicts)
March 7, 2005... Before Hariri was assassinated, the Baathist regime had invited to Damascus Sultan Abul Einein, a Fatah Palestinian leader based in a refugee camp in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon. It was alleged that Abul Einein returned from Damascus...

SYRIA - The Beirut Factor.(Arab-Israeli conflicts)
March 7, 2005... After 9/11, Sharon won Bush's ear by equating the Palestinian resistance and Hizbollah with international terrorism. He then went ahead with building Jewish settlements in the West Bank despite Bush's admonitions. Now focusing on...

SYRIA - The Sharon & Hizbollah Factors.
March 7, 2005... Likewise, Lebanon's opposition says there will be no viable Lebanese unity based on democracy if this is not disengaged from the confrontation or peace negotiations between Syria and Israel. But this does not mean Lebanon will be disengaged...

SYRIA - The Options For Assad.(Bashar Assad)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... The strategic options for the Assad regime are narrowing rapidly. If he grasps what is really happening around him and within Syria, Assad will have to move fast in a direction which will be in line with - rather than against - a changing Pax...

SYRIA - The Iraq Factor.(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... At a news conference in Baghdad on March 1, Iraq's Interim Defence Minister Hazem Al-Sha'lan provided new details about the recent capture of one of Saddam's half brothers, Sab'awi Ibrahim Al-Hassan, accused of playing a major role in...

SYRIA - The Siege Mentality.(anti-US insurgency )(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Nevertheless, this proved that Assad's regime had a major role in the anti-US insurgency in Iraq's Sunni Triangle, whereas in the past Damascus had persistently denied having anything to do in Iraq. At the same time, however, the regime has...