Sfeir blames divisions on foreign interference
By Maroun Khoury
Daily Star correspondent
Friday, March 30, 2007
BKIRKI: Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir said Thursday that the Lebanese were divided because foreign parties were interfering in the country’s internal affairs.
“Syria withdrew from Lebanon [in 2005] but its bodies are still in the country and it is still exerting pressure on […]

Arab leaders make no moves on Lebanon
By Nafez Qawas
Daily Star correspondent
Friday, March 30, 2007
RIYADH: The Arab League summit in Riyadh failed to initiate any sort of Arab initiative - Saudi or otherwise - to help Lebanon solve its four-month-old political deadlock. Most speeches from various Arab leaders during the second and final day of talks […]

Arab Summit Wrapped up, Peace Plan re-Launched
Arab leaders on Thursday wrapped up a summit in the Saudi Capital of Riyadh by re-launching a five-year-old blueprint for peace in the Middle East, although Israel has rejected the plan as it stands.
The 22-member Arab League gathering was declared over after Secretary General Amr Mussa read out a […]

Patriarch Sfeir Hammers Lahoud and Aoun, Naharnet
Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir lashed out at President Emile Lahoud and Gen. Michael Aoun, accusing them of trying to re-establish the era of Syrian hegemony in Lebanon.
Asked by the Kuwaiti al-Rai newspaper to comment on Lahoud’s performance, Sfeir said: “What does he do? He spends his day with political […]

Arab summit ending in Riyadh strengthens radical Iran and Syria and recognizes Palestinian Hamas
March 29, 2007
  
The conference ending Thursday, March 29, ended the isolation of the two Middle East governments backing anti-US fighting elements in Iraq, fomenting Hizballah’s war effort against Israel and aiding Palestinian terror.
The Arab front, portrayed by American and Israeli policy-makers as […]

   
By Richard Miniter, PJM Washington Editor
Does Iran have a network of sleeper cells inside the United States that could strike us if we bomb their nuclear facilities?
This is the key question that should be put to Ali Reza Asghari, Iran’s former deputy defense minister, who is believed to be in the custody of a western […]

Saudi FM: “No one has washed his hands of the Lebanese issue” 
On March 26, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Sa’ud al-Faysal spoke at a news conference and said:
“[Al-Faysal] In the name of God, The Compassionate, The Merciful. We held today along with their excellencies the Arab foreign ministers and His Excellency the Arab League Secretary General […]

AL Hayat Syria’s Declining Role Hassan Haydar
Khalilzad: Syria Invites More Talks
SyriaCommment Kurds Commemorate the “Intifadah” of 12 March 2004
Column One: As Syria prepares for war
Eldar The Syrian secret Sharon did not reveal to Olmert
Al Awsat Syria’s Critical Timing
Bar’el The Syrian-Arab rift Bashar Assad is trying to mend fences with the rest of the Arab […]

Syrian Efforts to End Its Regional and International Isolation
By: H. Varulkar
For the past two years Syria has been subject to international isolation and pressure. Since the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war, it has faced growing isolation within the Arab world as well, following an August 15 speech in which Syrian President Bashar Assad termed Arab leaders critical […]

The Saudi Vision for Peace in the Middle East
By Dr. Abdullah Ibrahim El-Moneif, Arab News
The Saudi Vision for Peace in the Middle EastThe 19th Arab Summit begins in Riyadh today. The focus of the two-day summit will be the Arab peace initiative proposed by King Abdullah when he was crown prince and later endorsed by […]