Blog: Obama Mideast Monitor

Blog: Obama Mideast Monitor

Blog: Obama Mideast Monitor
Netanyahu interview with ABC News
April 21, 2010
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Steven J. Rosen
Blog: Obama Mideast Monitor
Obama’s Counterproductive Settlements Ultimatum
April 14, 2010
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Steven J. Rosen
Blog: Obama Mideast Monitor
Fierce attack on Dennis Ross
March 28, 2010
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Steven J. Rosen
Blog: Obama Mideast Monitor
Iran: Michael Ledeen vs. Flynt Leverett
March 4, 2010
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Steven J. Rosen
Blog: Obama Mideast Monitor
J-Street not invited to Biden meeting
March 3, 2010
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Steven J. Rosen
Blog: Obama Mideast Monitor
Obama’s Iran Team
February 12, 2010
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Steven J. Rosen
Blog: Obama Mideast Monitor
Interesting George Mitchell Interview
January 7, 2010
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Steven J. Rosen
Blog: Obama Mideast Monitor
Mitchell on Parallel Israel/Palestinian Talks
December 28, 2009
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Steven J. Rosen
Blog: Obama Mideast Monitor
Abbas: “I could have reached an agreement with Olmert”
December 20, 2009
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Steven J. Rosen
Blog: Obama Mideast Monitor
Netanyahu’s New Agreement with Mitchell
December 19, 2009
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Steven J. Rosen
More from MEF
President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s government wants investment, legitimacy, and an end to isolation. Leaders of that government emerged from jihadist organizations, and Syria remains a highly vulnerable, fractured state. Pledges to keep Iran out are welcome. Yet they still prove nothing. Al-Sharaa in Berlin, March 30, 2026.
Middle East Forum Online
Syria’s New Rulers Want a Deal. Make Them Lock Iran Out
The U.S.-Iran Memorandum Signed Last Month Left the Middle East’s Core Conflicts Unsettled
July 5, 2026
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Jose Lev Alvarez
Government supporters have justified the erasure of the village as a matter of correcting planning violations. Regardless of the official justification however (which may also be motivated by a desire to punish a community seen as having been a centre for Hezbollah and Iranian-backed armed groups during the war), the end result is still the same. A minority community has been displaced and is forced to take refuge in other Shia villages in the Homs region.
Middle East Forum Online
The Destruction of the Shia Village of Mazra’a in Homs
The Government’s Recent Erasure of the Homs Shia Village of Mazra‘A, Located West of Homs City, Is the Latest Example of Problems Faced by the Shia in Homs
July 5, 2026
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Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
A journalist who has long presented himself as an independent figure in Turkey was allegedly recruited and handled for years as an intelligence asset by a clandestine unit within the National Intelligence Organization, the country’s main spy agency, according to a former senior investigator.
Middle East Forum Online
Turkey’s Spy Agency Allegedly Cultivated Journalist as Intelligence Asset to Run Psyops
The Journalist Has Allegedly Conducted Influence Operations Designed to Advance the Political Objectives of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Government
July 5, 2026
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Abdullah Bozkurt