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Articles of the author Walid Choucair
The Grayness Of Geneva 2 And Hezbollah's Haste
Regional and international powers concerned with the convening of a Geneva 2 peace conference for Syria have been involved in verbal sparring, as under-the-table discussions about how to interpret the provisions of Geneva 1 are also taking place. (...)

08 - 11 - 2013
Separation And Linkage Between Geneva 2 And Iran's Nuclear Program
Preparations for the Geneva 2 peace conference are facing several problems, which have naturally generated leaks and predictions that the conference will be postponed, whether to January or even beyond. The first essential conundrum involves the (...)

01 - 11 - 2013
Lebanon's Geneva Conference
It is no longer possible to get around the demands and conditions of Lebanese political sides with regard to a solution for the Lebanese crisis, which has been about a government vacuum and fears about a vacuum in the presidency during next May's (...)

25 - 10 - 2013
The Costs Of America's Retrenchment And Russia's Activity
The parties to Russian-American negotiation over getting rid of chemical weapons in Syria are trading concessions with the parties to negotiation over Iran's nuclear program. They are doing this carefully and in parallel, with calculated steps. The (...)

18 - 10 - 2013
Full Executive Powers In Syria... And In Lebanon
There is a story that immediately after the conclusion of the 2006 July 2006 war waged by Israel against Lebanon, Syrian President Bashar Assad asked his allies in Lebanon, via Hezbollah, to do everything in their power to change the government of (...)

11 - 10 - 2013
Bargaining Chips In Iran's Nuclear Program And Syria
It would have been silly in the first place to expect quick and clear results from the commotion over a likely military solution to the Syrian crisis, because of the US-Russian agreement over getting rid of Syria's chemical weapons, and after other (...)

04 - 10 - 2013
Rohani's Caution and Obama's About-Face
The opening of the United Nations General Assembly this year was of considerable importance in terms of defining the policies of players on the international scene, more so than previous years, when monotony was often the order of the day. To the (...)

27 - 09 - 2013
The Russian Opportunity For Iranian Flexibility
American and Russian diplomats are differing over how to translate their agreement to remove Syria's chemical weapons into a United Nations Security Council resolution. This dispute indicates that they remain unable to agree on the "day after" for (...)

20 - 09 - 2013
The Ironies Of Postponing A Military Strike Against Syria
Negotiations and maneuvers have been taking place over a political solution for the crisis that arose after the Bashar Assad regime used chemical weapons against its people, in order to see the regime avoid a military strike by the United States and (...)

13 - 09 - 2013
Negotiations Before Or After A Military Strike Against Syria?
The Syrian regime has forced all Arabs to choose between two things: accepting the continued murder of the Syrian people with the use of the ugliest methods of killing, and accepting foreign, and specifically American, military intervention, to (...)

06 - 09 - 2013
The Mistake Of Chemical Weapons
Syrian activists risked their lives on 20 August and the two following days, after the regime's chemical weapons strike on the western and eastern Ghouta region near Damascus. They were busy taking horrific and saddening pictures of children killed (...)

30 - 08 - 2013
Egypt, Syria, Russia and Saudi Arabia
The countries of the Arab Spring are experiencing a re-shuffling of the deck, which requires us to monitor the impact of new developments on the stances of the Great Powers and other foreign powers, which are in conflict with one another vis-à-vis (...)

17 - 08 - 2013
Rohani's Priorities in Abandoning "Delusions"
The expressions chosen by Iran's new president, Sheikh Hasan Rohani, in his inaugural speech Sunday, and a news conference on Tuesday, were very precise. Rohani, a seasoned diplomat described as rational, chose his terms carefully in presenting (...)

09 - 08 - 2013
Elections In Kuwait And The True Effort That Is Needed
Developments in the Arab Spring are entering the calculations of political groups in all Arab countries, just as they have influenced these groups' stances, if even only partially, vis-à-vis the elections in Kuwait that took place on Saturday. The (...)

02 - 08 - 2013
Sanctions On Hezbollah In The Context Of Iran
The European Union is confused when it comes to providing a clear justification for its steps to designate the military wing of Hezbollah as a terror group. At times, officials talk about the judicial reason for the move, connected to the accusation (...)

26 - 07 - 2013
"Lesser Syria" and "Greater Lebanon"
Syrian President Bashar Assad can be proud, as he was quoted by Reuters one week ago, that "developments in Syria are moving in my favor." In terms of his grip on power and remaining the head of state in Syria, the man continues to live in his own (...)

19 - 07 - 2013
Explosion in the Suburbs, and "Chasing Away" the Moderates
A broad agreement among Lebanon's political groups and leaders, warning about Sunni-Shiite strife as their response to the blast that targeted Beirut's southern suburbs on Tuesday, could have served as an occasion to launch an understanding in (...)

12 - 07 - 2013
Change in Egypt... in Syrian Terms
A process of political change is underway in Egypt, and a new political formula should emerge in the coming months. As the world awaits these developments, monitoring the exemplary dynamism of the Egyptian people indicates that these dramatic events (...)

05 - 07 - 2013
Al-Assir and the Nusra Front
Just as with the Nusra Front in Syria, there has been an exaggeration of the clout of Sheikh Ahmad Assir in Lebanon. Assir has received wide-scale media attention because his extremism is attractive for televisions and satellite stations, which have (...)

28 - 06 - 2013
Arming Syria's Rebels Awaits Rohani's Flexibility?
Once again, the supposed "political solution" to the Syrian crisis has been hollowed out – it has been moved back time and time again, in hopes of convening a Geneva 2 conference "at the soonest possible time." The call for holding Geneva 2 was made (...)

21 - 06 - 2013
American-Russian-Israeli Convergence... Over Arming Syria's Rebels (14-06-13)
Many people are having doubts about the possibility of western countries embracing the option of arming the Syrian opposition. Those who are following developments in the Syrian crisis have not assigned much importance to the US announcement that a (...)

14 - 06 - 2013
The Post- Post-Qusair Phase
Predictions have been flowing with abundance about what will follow the control by the Syrian regular army and Hezbollah over the Syrian city of Qusair, and on the post- post-Qusair phase. The Syrian regime and Hezbollah managed to retake the small (...)

07 - 06 - 2013
The Extension of Parliament in Lebanon, and Banning Rafsanjani in Iran
Political circles close to Hezbollah were whispering this around a year ago, and now it has come to pass: Lebanon's parliamentary elections will be postponed for 17 months (instead of two years). It took months of charades and maneuvering, which (...)

31 - 05 - 2013
Kerry Warns Assad and Fears Afghanistan
It was a deplorable warning that was issued by United States Secretary of State John Kerry to Syrian President Bashar Assad, namely that not exploiting the opportunity of the Geneva 2 conference means the war will continue, and that "there may be (...)

24 - 05 - 2013
Geneva is Rejected in Syria ... and Lebanon
Does treating Lebanon's deepening political crisis require Lebanon's attendance at the Geneva 2 Conference, which Russia and the United States are preparing for? This small country has become completely attached to the Syrian crisis; everything in (...)

17 - 05 - 2013
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