02/01/2014 | Frente Externo
Confidence-destroying Measures
Working toward an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, negotiators always seek “confidence-building measures” or CBMs. These moves are supposed to show good faith and convince the other side to undertake equal steps, or perhaps even more important to show the other side’s good faith.
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18/05/2011 | Frente Externo
The Illusion of Peace with Syria: Don’t even think of engaging with Assad.
The news from Syria grows grimmer by the day—more peaceful protesters killed, ten thousand arrested in the past week, army units shelling residential neighborhoods.
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18/05/2011 | Frente Externo
The Illusion of Peace with Syria: Don’t even think of engaging with Assad.
The news from Syria grows grimmer by the day—more peaceful protesters killed, ten thousand arrested in the past week, army units shelling residential neighborhoods.
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20/06/2010 | Frente Externo
A Turkey of a Policy
The Gaza flotilla incident is not over. American demands for some “international role” in investigating Israel’s conduct (but not, it seems, Turkey’s) and for a new system of getting humanitarian aid to Gaza will be imposed on Israel one way or another before the episode will be behind us. But however they play out, this incident clarified several major trends in the region—all of which are dangerous for the United States and for our allies in the Middle East.
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