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Israel and Syria…to War?

February 4th, 2010

In the last twenty four hours Israel and Syria were sending messages to each other explaining what kind of war they are expecting and which Israel and Syria…to War? 132  320x240 president bashar alassad1 reactions would happen before, through, and after a possible war between the two states.
The incident started with a statement which Ehud Barack made about the possibility of going to war with Syria if the last does not sign a peace agreement with Israel. Read more…

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Common Interests Result in Negotiations

May 23rd, 2008

In a surprising declaration, Israel and Syria stated yesterday that they are having secret negotiations and planning to continue forward in it. The Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that his administration was planning for this since a year and that it is not related to the last scandal that accused him of corruption.

The Syrian President Bashar Alasad wanted the entire world to know about the negotiations through his politicians and the media even though that this could affect on his relations with Iran. Read more…

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Beirut is Crying Again

May 9th, 2008

Beirut FightsBeirut is Crying Again 77326lebanon 1Lebanon is living in war again but this time it is witnessing a war between its sons and daughters. The streets are closed again, the fire is in so many places, the victims are dying, and the situation is becoming worse.

After a long round of negotiations that brought nothing between the several Lebanese parties and groups, the situation exploded and turned into a street fight between the Lebanese that are fighting to prove who can be stronger and make decisions. Read more…

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Shaul Mofaz: All the Choices should be kept on the Table in Facing Iran

May 1st, 2008

Shaul MufazShaul Mofaz: All the Choices should be kept on the Table in Facing Iran 169761Ahmadi NajadIn his last speech in Yale University, Shaul Mofaz said that the Iranian threat is becoming more serious every day and should not be neglected. Mofaz said that it is important that all the tools should be considered and kept if they are needed to be used.

 The Israeli Minister said that the best tool that can be used now is the economical punishment or seize, but also time should be considered and the situation should not be left to become more dangerous. Read more…

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What could be the results of an Iranian Syrian – Israeli War?

April 28th, 2008

Bush OlmertAhmadi Najad BasharWar could happen in different ways and it is not only the kind that includes attacking and sending soldiers to occupy or destroy another country. The situation now between Israel and the Iranian triangle in the Middle East is a situation of War.

 

It is well known that once you are not in peace with another country then you are sure in a war with it. The reason simply is that you don’t know what would be the next move that this country could take against you. Read more…

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Israel and Syria…Making Peace or Having a Break?

April 27th, 2008

Israel” />Bashar SyriaThe future always hides surprises for us especially when we are talking about politics in the Middle East. Recently Syria and Israel had a nice story going on between them that may not be as nice as it looks.

Israel as it always used to be is being smart in its way of treating things concerning the Syrian problem. The smartest State or leadership is the one that tries everything before going to war. Read more…

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Hamas and Syria…Changing directions?

April 24th, 2008

In the last two days we noticed a change in the Syrian and Hamas attitudes and opinions about going forward toward peace and silence in the Middle East. Yesterday and today several Syrian sources talked about the Israeli offer of withdrawing from the Golan in order to make complete peace with Syria. Read more…

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Syria…Iran…And Israel…Peace or War

April 23rd, 2008

Serious statements were made yesterday about peace and negotiations between Israel and Syria. Some Syrian newspapers mentioned that Israel declared that the withdrawal from the Golan could be made in order to achieve peace with Syria. Read more…

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The challenge to prove who is stronger

February 16th, 2008

After the assassination of Emad Mughnyeh one of the most important leaders in Hezballah, the situation between Israel and Lebanon is again in danger of exploding and launching a new war between the two sides.Nasrallah said that Hezballah will reply on the assassination of Mughnyeh hardly in any place and said that the world will testify on the open war that according to him Israel started by killing Mughnyeh. Today Read more…

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This Week in the Middle East:

October 19th, 2007

The Russian, American last Statements about the Iranian Nuclear Project.

In his last meeting with Ihud Barak, the American President, Bush made it clear that everything should be done to prevent the Iranians from holding a nuclear weapon, he said that if the Iranians get nuclear weapons in there hands, a third world war could start. It is not a new thing to hear this statement from the American president, specially that it is a common thing to see the cooperation between the United States and Israel to prevent any improvement in the Syrian-Iranian weapon filed, that could be a direct threat to the American-Israeli interests in the region.But the real weird statement was the Russian president one that is not clear. Putin, the Russian president, visited Iran yesterday, and said that Russia would never accept on any strike on Iran, and that no force should be used in solving the Iranian Nuclear issues. Putin invited Ahmadi Najad, the Iranian president to come and visit Russia. The press said today, that Putin introduced a new plan to end the Iranian Nuclear problem, but the Iranians are still denying it. After this friendly visit to Iran, and promise not to use force against it, the Russian president met with Ihud Olmert, the Israeli Prime minister yesterday. In this meeting, Putin made a promise to Israel, that Russia would not support the Iranians in building and obtaining a nuclear weapon. Another sources said that Ihud Olmert asked from the Russians to end a planned deal with the Syrians, to give them rockets that could become a threat on the Israeli aircraft. Russia made promises to the both sides, the Israeli and the Iranian, so what is this clever president trying to do by this. Putin is known for his well planning of returning Russia to the first class super powers in the world, and that he strongly refuses the moves that the United States does in order to make the Russian influence less in the former Soviet Union states. So would he really be a good friend of Israel, the best friend of the United States in the region, or would he start thinking of supporting a new power in the Middle East like Iran. Putin even started planning for his position in the Russian Government after the coming elections; he is planning to be the Prime Minister and support a weak President so he can stay in control in an appropriate legal way.

The Iranians only care now to obtain Nuclear Weapons with any price they will be paying for it, because they are sure that once they get these weapons, it will be hard for any State to face them.

I do believe that Russia will keep on being Neutral at the moment, as it always did since the Soviet Union collapsed, in order not to mess up with anyone, BUT if there would be a good moment to make a real shift and return to the first class powers, it wont hesitate in supporting any new upcoming power. Maybe it will follow the secret work plan until things become clearer.

Are the Syrians doing any Nuclear or Atomic Activities?

Today some Press sources like the Washington Post, was talking about the remains of the body or aim that Israel hit in Syria a few weeks ago. It said that the Syrians hided these remains, and misled the press by taking them to shoot another place, claiming that what Israel destroyed was nothing, and that no military activities are being held in this area. The Washington Post said, that satellite pictures were captured and shows a small atomic or nuclear active body that is similar to the North Korean Nuclear items, and that was what Israel really wanted to destroy in the Syrian lands.What I believe is that Israel and the United States are starting a press campaign, accusing the Syrians of attempts to hold Nuclear or atomic weapons in order to make it easier or lets say more convincing when they take a decision of attacking it.

The November Peace Conference, is there a chance?

On the other side, the faith in the November Peace conference is become weaker and weaker every day. Today Saeb Erekat, the Palestinian negotiator says for the first time, that there will not be a final peace paper in this conference, and only a plan will be wrote of how to reach a final agreement. Even Condoleezza Rice said that it is better not to hope much improvement from this Conference. Abu Mazen said that it will be even difficult to go to this Conference, and the reason I think is that how he would explain to his people the failure or lets say not getting the minimum from this conference after all the promises he gave to his people if they follow his program, the peace program. Lets not lose hope, still there are secret negotiations happening between the both sides, and no one knows what did each side offer to the other, the door is still opened and there may be a chance for a change, but not in November.

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Israeli-Syrian Situation, A Cold War again, Economical Situation.

October 18th, 2007

In the last week, there were discussions in the Israeli prime minister office about whether to declare about Olmert’s visit to the Golan or to keep it secret; some said that keeping it secret could make things complicated if the journalism knows about it. It would be understood like if the prime minister is checking on his army in this area and preparing it for a battle. In the end it was decided to declare about it to calm things down. The next day Ihud Baraq, the Israeli Defense minister made a visit too to the Golan to check the army and the way things are going on their. Ihud Baraq said while he was making a speech their, that Israel doesn’t want to start a war now with Syria and that there is no interest for Israel from making such a war. He also said that his visit to this area, and the Israeli army movement in this area is being held because Israel has only this area and the south to make trainings and movements for its army. At the same time Israeli journalists and analysis’s said that they think if Israel and Syria keeps on this status of Words war for another three months, things could become much worse and then it could be a beginning for a long difficult war for the both sides. Farouk ilsharaa, the Syrian vice-president, in his last speech, said that these israeli movements shows nothing more than preparing for attacking Syria and starting a war, he considered all these israeli movements on the boarders with his state as a serious act towards making things more close to war rather than peace in the middle east. He also said that Syria will be ready to attack back and defend itself if Israel chooses to strike it.

If we go back a little, also before three days, Hasan Nasrallah, the head of Husballah lebanese movement, also made a speech to thousands of lebanese people. In this speech Nasrallah uses new tactics and threatens with new serious words, he said: “If Israel chooses again to attack lebanon, I will be ready to reply with a new big surprise that will change all the strategies and situation in the middle east. Nasrallah is known to be honest in applying his threatens after he declares specialy after what happened in the last Israel-Lebanon war.

Now lets connects things together and see what we can get from all of these new acts; Syria, Hezballah and the Iranians had their last meeting in Syria a month ago and agreed on so many things that no one knew nothing about except that serious decisions were taken about to how to react and reattack if Israel attacks any of the three of them. The real thing is that Iran is holding this unity between the three of them and planning very well in how to use the two powers it has in the middle east to change the situation in it. The Iranians has two options; either to use Syria and Hezballah to make pressure on Israel so the united states could stop threatening Iran to stop its Nuclear activity, the other option which is much more risky and dangerous and could only be used by the iranians if they are in real danger is to make a sudden move and attack the main power and strength for the United States in the Middle East which is Israel by using hezballah and Syria clearly. Attacking can be done in so many ways; short battles like the last summer (hezballah and Israel), Words Threatening like what is going on between Syria and Israel, and the last option which is complete war that could burn things out in the Middle East.

Now the real question is how much Israel could stand without doing anything while its biggest enemies are becoming stronger and much more dangerous for its security?

Again Israel could choose to use the surprising element and strike them before they thing of striking it, and try to destroy as much as they can from this Three States Unity from the first hit. This explains why Israel Is working 24/7 on training and preparing so it can be ready to either attack or defend itself from a planned attack. Nasrallah threatening of bringing out a new big surprise for the israelis this time means not only using regular rockets but holds much more meanings; it could mean using new weapons like chemical or biological weapons that he may be holding, it could also be attacking back with the help of the Iranians and the syrians. Another surprising act that Syria did in the last months was bringing young syrians that are studying abroad back to Syria and training them in the Syrian army. The Israeli Intelligence said that it had information about moving these soldiers to the boarders with israel and that a syrian plan that is giving them the permission to make small attacks against israel from the boarders is being studied to build up somehting like Hezballah in the syrian boarders with Israel claiming that this is being done to liberate the occupied Golan.

Another last known thing in the Israeli deplomacy is that if Israel says there is no war at the meanwhile, this means a war is so close! And according to the International relations laws, the syrians and the Israelis are allready in a state of war and this can be seen from the way things are developing either by military preparings or speeches.

Now Russian Bomber flights to be permament? Dosnt this remind us of the cold war days? I mean this was stopped in the early nintys, but Putin is returning back many of the Soviets acts to life such as the missles case. Putin said exactly: In 1992, Russia unilaterally ended flights by its strategic aircraft to distant military patrol areas. Unfortunately, our example was not followed by everyone. Flights by other countries’ strategic aircraft continue and this creates problems for ensuring the security of the Russian Federation.

The United States said that these activities does not show any threat to the Americans.

When Putin said that others didn’t follow his examply he meant the U.s and the Nato. Although this man suffers from money shortage, he is trying to get Russia back to the game, why? He wants to be part in making decisions in the world and this was seen when he also said that some Power states are making decisions alone without taking care of consulting Russia and it is the time that Russia comes back to take part in making decisions. If the Russians keep on doing these acts like also restarting military trainings with China, then the emptiness could become bigger between them and the Americans and then Russia will have to prove that it is strong again so it could return to its old chair and change the worlds balance of power again which is now One State power which is the U.S and return it again a Two States Power.

Now consider me crazy be saying this, but what if the american pressure becomes bigger and bigger on the Russians to stop these activities. And the Russians needed a supporting bunch of States, and suddenly Iran and its friends offers the help of following the Russians in the future, as once the Soviets united with Egypt against Israel in its war and even prevented the jewish imigrations from its land to Israel, what if this was only the beginning and returned back to life some of the states that were in the Soviet Union to cooperate with Russia again. Actually similar actions are being done on the American side since it felt the Iranian threatens and Russians non trusted. The U.S is supporting its Arab allighs with weapons in order to face any Iranian attack and Israel is allready being supported and prepared, so if something happens then the Russians wont have any other place except standing with those who are fighting against its number one power racing state “the U.S”. Just thing of it!

Now the last thing I just wanted to remark about the the economical deterioration that happened in America’s Real Estate Loans and how it affected the worlds economy in a direct way. Rates were lowered in order to stop this. Actually this reminded me of the Israeli Company named Festiba that collapsed lately, this company used to build homes and sell them to the people. They took a permission to build one thousand three hundred houses in a place called Modeen, part of these lands are owned by Palestinians, and the company built instead of one thousand three hundred, three thousand houses. The head of the Israeli Peace Now movement succeeded in getting an order from the court of Law to stop their buildings and this was one of the main reasons that helped in collapsing the company. The Israeli public that bought from this company was seriously affected because they lost large sums of money. Now the state is trying to make a law that protects them if this happens again. Well what I really wanted to show up that Economy could be a serious reason to start a world war as so many times it did in the history and if this deterioration keeps on happening in the World’s Economy because of the Globalization, then it would affect seriously.

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Israel – Syrian Situation, Checking Abilities?

October 18th, 2007

I have been thinking lately about all the news and events that have been going on concerning Syria-Israel threatening war, and the November peace conference that the United States is preparing.

Israel lately carried out an air strike inside Syria, and until now non-Israeli official statement was said about it, except for what Binyamin Netanyahu said about his involvement in it since the beginning and the planning, but also said that everything will be clarified at its time. Some were talking about a nuclear project being held in the place Israel attacked, that the Syrians were establishing with the help of North Korea. Others said that weapons were hidden there and Israel had pictures captured of this area by satellites. Actually I do believe that nothing of these statements says the truth about what is going on. Syria said lately that Israel should forget about peace with it especially after what Israel did. Iran keeps on preparing itself with Rockets and threatening to destroy anyone who thinks of attacking its lands, they even talked about attacking the American forces in Iran and Iraq. Well what I think is that Israel wanted to check how Syria would react after attacking its lands and see if they are really prepared to face it. The Syrians are still in the middle of taking a decision about whether to face Israel and bring all the middle east to an opened violence state that could involve Lebanon, Iran, and even make it worse in Iraq, or to hold their breath and try not to start a war until they are really sure that they can win it. Syria said yesterday that they wont participate in the November peace conference even if the United States asks from it to participate…why? Because Iran should decide and Iran should be asked so they can have the permission to go to this conference. Another statement that Ihud Olmert said and really confused me, is what he said today when he met the Arab kenneset members about the November conference and that it wont be as serious as some people think and that it would be only a start for negotiations but not a final one that could really change from the roots. He also said that any bomb attack inside Israel could destroy everything. The reason for what he said was the strong objection and disagreement of Kadeemah party to talk about dividing Jerusalem for two capitals. Still the Israelis are not ready for this and he doesn’t want to risk by talking about it. Hussni Mubarak, the Egyptian president said that if this Conference wont succeed, then this time really all the middle east will go to war and violence and it would be difficult to stop it this time.

I really agree with what he said, and I add that the chances for this conference are really low, what we should think about is how bad it would be, if both the Israelis and the Palestinians didn’t reach the minimum that is needed to make the people return back again to believe in peace in this conference. And how would this be used by Syria and Iran as a support for them in fighting their enemies and becoming loved by the Arab people? If this conference doesn’t succeed, then you can be sure that things will become worse, and that’s why Bush and Condoleezza rice are doing their best to make sure that it will give what is needed to gain the support of the Arab countries and the Palestinians in order to start facing Syria and Iran. One other thing is don’t be surprised if we wake up on a day and you see on the television that Israel attacked Syria because the Americans and the Israelis wont give Syria a chance to become a direct threaten on Israel by bringing more dangerous weapons or making movements on the boarders…it’s a matter of time but cant be known if it is going to be a matter of days or months because it all depends on what is hidden under the table; the Syria- Iranian power to face any attack or even to attack and the Palestinian Israeli situation that could again become critical if it wont be solved or pushed towards peace.

Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad

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