Syria-the View From Damascus: State, Political Community and Foreign Relations in Twentieth-Century Syria
Middle East Journal, The › Vol. 64 Nbr. 1, January 2010
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"The Bush Administration, Israel and Syria, 2001-2008," which closes the volume, tells the story of Washington's steadily growing "anger" toward Damascus (p. 344); Syria's transformation into a client state of the Islamic Republic of Iran, a trend that in Rabinovich's view was "clearly illustrated during Israel's war with Hizballah in the summer of 2006" as well as in the Israeli bombing of a suspected nuclear facility in northeastern Syria a year later (p. 345); and the calculations that lay behind Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's decision to approach Damascus under Turkish auspices in early 2007. Rabinovich notes that the Olmert initiative sparked criticism "from an unexpected source:" the Norwegian United Nations officer Terje Larsen, whose comments were immediately "reported to the Foreign Office in Jerusalem and, like so many other Israeli diplomatic dispatches found [their] way to the Israeli media" (p. 353), putting the prospects for future Israeli-Syrian talks in jeopardy.
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Syria-the View From Damascus: State, Political Community and Foreign Relations in Twentieth-Century Syria
SYRIA The View from Damascus: State, Political Community and Foreign Relations in Twentieth-Century Syria, by Itamar Rabinovich. London and Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2008. viii + 354 pages. Bibl. to p. 367. Index to p. 371. $49.95.
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