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Three years ago, the massive slaughter of Palestinians and innocent Sunni protesters by Syria's president Bashar al-Assad caused a split between Syria and Hamas, which moved its headquarters from Damascus to Doha, Qatar, and a resulting split between Hamas and Gaza. I believe the intent wast to end...

Saudi Arabian and Gulf State Jets - F15s and F16s - are being refueled in the air by the United States - as part of operations to protect the internationally recognized government, and loyal militia forces, of Yemin. This is occuring as the U.S. reportdly provides arms to local Yemeni militias in Ad...

Islamist extremists - both Sunni Islamist extremists - and Shia Islamist extremists - are winning the battles in Yemen. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQIAP aka AQAP) - a Sunni Islamist group seeking to form a Sunni Islamic Caliphate - are active against government strong holds. They have overru...

President Obama is risking a political defeat on any tentative agreement he makes with Iran. President Obama is not only negotiating from a position of weakness with Iran, he, Obama, is also negotiating from a position of weakness with the other Permanent Members of the UN Security Council. Obama mu...

To understand Yemen you must understand the individuals, who is who, of the country: Ali Abdullah Saleh was President for 34 years ( 1978 to 2012), before he was forced out of power by a coalition of his external country friends. external country enemies, and his enemies amoung his own countrymen. T...

North Africa is in play. The Middle East is in play. Ukraine is in play. National borders are changing. National borders appear to be meaningless today, why ? The world order that was established first after World War I, and then again after World War II, has broken down, why ? Perhaps the better qu...

There is a fault line dividing Syria, Iraq and the Arabian penisula. Iran is battling on many fronts and defending their client states and client militias. Saudia Arabia and Egypt are joining the fight on the Sunni side. The nightmare scenario is that ISIS fighters are the only ones that fight well ...

There are a few problems with those statistics. Most of the deaths during World War II were civilian deaths, not military deaths. Those doing most of the killing did so after the military battles were over and the termporialy victorious armies had absolute physical control of their, soon to be dead,...

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/6f80896e-c738-11e4-9e34-00144feab7de.html#axzz3U1h6H1Yd ... — ... and the European Union — are backing the ( Greek ) government’s fundraising drive. “We’re not going to prevent them ( The Greek Government ) from doing cash pooling, which is what any normal treasury [/...

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/6f80896e-c738-11e4-9e34-00144feab7de.html#axzz3U1h6H1Yd ... — ... and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) — are backing the ( Greek ) government’s fundraising drive. “We’re not going to prevent them ( The Greek Government ) from doing cash pooling, which is what a...