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Friday, April 13, 2012

''A Shifting Middle East Chess Board''

From Rudlaw

"The crisis in Syria has already shifted the Middle East chessboard of loyalties, interests and political machinations.  Before protests erupted in Syria, Iran and Hezbollah were increasingly managing to transcend their Shiite sectarian identity base to appeal to non-Shiites in the region.  They did so primarily via the language and coin of “resistance” to Israel and Western “imperialism and oppression."

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