By Seyed Safavi and H Safavi
International Peace Studies Centre (IPSC)
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The Brooking Institution’s 2010 poll on Arab public opinion offers important insights. Perhaps one of the most important aspects of this poll is that it sheds light on the relation between the American government and Muslim nations. The major problem in the American government’s construction of its Middle East policy is that it either does not see the wide gap between Muslim nations and their governments, or it has decided to ignore it. The US does have allies in …
By Ibrahim Kazerooni
Since 2002 when the Bush government and the US media found a new bone of contention with Iran and its nuclear program, attacking Iran has been on the table by both Bush and Obama administrations as well as various Israeli governments. Lately the surge of articles in an assortment of US papers asking Obama to give the green light to Israel to attack Iran not to mention the introduction of House Resolution 1553, has given this issue an added urgency that must …
The Aftermath of the Lebanese-Israeli Clashes
Patrick Galey
Special to the IPSC
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TYRE, South Lebanon: The clashes between Israeli and Lebanese armies along the Blue Line last week represented a shifting dynamic between two warring states. Since 2006, Israel has operated with importunity, safe in the knowledge that retaliation for strident rhetoric and menacing military drills would come only from Hizbullah; the Lebanese army would never counter its vast military superiority. Last Tuesday’s incident showed that this has changed.
While the fighting’s precipitating factors continue to emerge, it has left the future murkier than …
A Synoptic Analysis of Recent Regional Developments (Part I):
Israel’s Military Clash with the Lebanese Army
Seyed Safavi and Hanan Nasser
International Peace Studies Centre (IPSC)
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The recent developments in the Middle East indicate a mounting pressure on the “axis of resistance” comprised of Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas. The key developments are constituted of the recent UN sanctions against Iran, in addition to the unilateral sanctions of the European Union and the United States of America; the information that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) is planning to …
A Tense Lebanon Awaits Outcome of Regional Diplomacy
Seyed Safavi and Hanan Nasser
International Peace Studies Centre (IPSC)
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Lebanon is witnessing a flurry of regional diplomatic activity amid political tensions triggered by information that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon is planning to indict members of Hezbollah in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
The Lebanese As Safir daily reported on July 28 that a Lebanese-Saudi-Syrian summit will take place on Friday in Lebanon between Saudi King Abdullah, Syrian President Bashar Assad and Lebanese President Michel Suleiman. The summit in Lebanon …
UNIFIL, Lebanese army and Hezbollah: A delicate relationship
Hanan Nasser
International Peace Studies Centre (IPSC)
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In recent weeks the Lebanese state, United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and Hezbollah worked to ease tensions following tensions between the peacekeeping mission and southerners with the three sides stressing on commitment to Resolution 1701 which called for a ceasefire to the July 2006 war between Lebanon and Israel.
On July 3, residents of the southern village of Qabrikha blocked a UNIFIL patrol belonging to the French contingent throwing stones at it, commandeering a soldier’s weapons and …
Three Misses: Miss Information, Miss Understanding, Miss Calculation
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