Syria Ain’t Baseball

Ira Sharkansky

When I used to think that baseball was important, I knew that you couldn’t tell the players without a scorecard.

The Syrian Cauldron

Jonathan_Spyer

Over the ruined landscape of northern Syria, a number of core factors which today define the strategic reality of the Middle East are colliding.

The Syrian Descent into Hell

Sarah Stern

Russian warplanes on Monday bombed two Syrian schools and five hospitals in the Aleppo region, killing up to 50 civilians.

Threats

Ira Sharkansky

Hassan Nasrallah’s latest tirade is his threat to send missiles against an ammonia plant in Haifa.

Iran’s Revealing Defiance of the U.S. and U.N.

Roger Aronoff

The latest act of defiance by Iran is an $8 billion dollar shopping spree, courtesy of its recently unfrozen assets, which were released because they supposedly convinced the IAEA that they have no plans to develop nuclear weapons.

Iran Infiltrates the West Bank

Khaled Abu Toameh

“The Patient Ones,” Al-Sabireen, are seeking Palestinians as a group to become an Iranian proxy in the region, and redoubling efforts to eliminate the “Zionist entity” and replace it with an Islamist empire.