Middle East Policy

The Middle East totalitarian axis represented by the Iranian terrorist armed gang of Hezbullah , is attacking Lebanon's freedom and democracy. Meanwhile, the international community continues its support to Lebanon and its legitimate and democratically-elected independence government and assures the achievements of the Cedar Revolution which kicked out the totalitarian occupation in 2005. Nevertheless, as I frequently said before, the essential problem was diagnosed and the prescription was and still obvious and stated in the historic UNSC resolution 1559. I frequently warned of not fully implementing this resolution that it would cause Lebanon to be held as a hostage on behalf of some regional totalitarian regimes. So, the international community should do more with the concerned totalitarian regimes to save Lebanon and the democratic project in the Middle East. Here are some related reports. Some related posts and articles: - Lebanon's Independence and Democracy - Lebano...

The "Iranian Armed Group of Hezbullah" has proved to the whole world that they are the "Iranian Terrorist Armed Group of Hezbullah" after their latest terrorist attacks. This time it is not the Israeli civilians are the victims, whom their government proved that it is totally out of the strategic sense of the 'new Middle East' after Iraq when it secured and supported over the past years a totalitarian terrorist regime, which is one of the two operators of the Iranian Terrorist Armed Group of Hezbullah, and ultimately made a fool of itself after the result demonstrated in the high cost it paid last summer. This time the victims of Hezbullah are the Lebanese civilians who were yesterday under attack of the Hizbullah terror. The aggression targeted Beirut besides freedom and civilization as quite expected from a totalitarian armed gang as Hezbullah on behalf of the Middle East totalitarian axis and to preclude the Special Tribunal for Lebanon at any cost. On ...

Here are a backgrounder by the Council on Foreign Relations explaining the Bush's plan to secure Baghdad, which is at the heart of the security section of the U.S. new Iraq strategy , and some responses to this strategy by the CFR scholars. My comment on the U.S. new Iraq strategy is available here . Bush’s Plan to Secure Baghdad By Lionel Beehner, CFR Staff Writer January 18, 2007 Introduction At the heart of President Bush's new stabilization plan on Iraq is securing Baghdad, depicted in this interactive map . A large percentage of the additional 17,500 U.S. forces going to the capital will be deployed to protect the local population. Unlike previous efforts to secure Baghdad, the plan calls for more American soldiers to be embedded with Iraqi forces, to remain in cleared areas around the clock, and to be given greater freedom to take on Shiite militias as well as Sunni insurgents. Once security is established, the U.S. military will then focus on economic reconstruction and...

Finally, the US has acknowledged the regional active role in Iraq's instability and violence. So, it will activate the regional dimension in the U.S. new Iraq strategy as an essential element. It is quite clear that without foreign support the insurgency in Iraq cannot be sustainable or politically effective. As the Iraq's insurgency has its domestic roots, the foreign (regional) input and intervention were essential in turning its efficacy from the security level to the political level. Here I should remind that the insurgency course in Iraq was in reverse that the violence advanced or led the political issue or problem not the political strife which produced the violence. That indicates that there are external roles and players taking their parts in this whole operation and manipulate the course of events there. So, as we should be totally aware of the domestic roots of the insurgency in Iraq, we should also be aware that it is definitely a regional issue and a deliberate war...

Iranian regime, the leader of the Middle East Totalitarian Axis (META), is fighting back after the geo-strategic change in the Middle East through the liberation of Iraq and the semi-liberation of Lebanon and the new regional and international realities associated with the Bush Forward Strategy of Freedom. The Iranian battle is pretty clear in Iraq and in Beirut's streets and somewhere in Gaza, associated with Iranian defiance on the nuclear question strengthened by the status and performance of the META. The picture of the regionally rising Iran and the retreating Western democratic involvement associated with the new Middle East project is not accurate. The real picture is wider and has a different nature should we have a strategic and comprehensive vision. This analysis by the Council on Foreign Relations is helpful to conceive a more comprehensive and realistic perspective. (The unanimously-adopted UNSC resolution 1737 which sanctioned Iran on the nuclear issue can be downloa...

After Mr. Baker's funny study which missed its time of pre-9/11 and its world of Cold War and studied not this Middle East but a past Middle East of Mr. Baker's time, Dr. Rice reasserted the U.S. commitment to Middle East democracy. Here is a related report followed by the executive summery of the Baker-Hamilton report (Iraq Study Group): Rice Says U.S. Support for Middle East Democracy Is Nonnegotiable By David McKeeby USINFO Staff Writer 15 December 2006 Washington -- Responding to calls for the United States to engage Iran and Syria to help secure Iraq, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said December 14 that even though diplomatic negotiation may be built on artful compromise, Iran and Syria must understand that U.S. support for democracy in the region is nonnegotiable. “If they have an interest in a stable Iraq, they'll do it anyway,” Rice told the Washington Post editorial board, and should not expect “compensation,” such as support for Syria’s hope of internat...

Here is the official full text of the statute of the special tribunal approved by the United Nations Security Council for trying all those who are found responsible for the terrorist crime which killed the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and other Lebanese martyrs of the Cedar Revolution, the Lebanese freedom and independence revolution, followed by the list of attacks perpetrated in Lebanon since 1 October 2004 included in the Secretary-General's report to the Security Council. Hope that 2007 will be the justice year for Lebanon. Statute of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon Having been established by an Agreement between the United Nations and the Lebanese Republic (hereinafter “the Agreement”) pursuant to Security Council resolution 1664 (2006) of 29 March 2006, which responded to the request of the Government of Lebanon to establish a tribunal of an international character to try all those who are found responsible for the terrorist crime which killed the former Leban...