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Understanding the Context

Strengthens Financial Support for UAE Businesses with Enhanced Bookkeeping & Accounting Services To press Asad to make the right decisions, the U.S. government should establish to Asad how it is in his interests to adopt the correct policies. That means adopting a wholly new approach to Damascus, one that both looks beyond Syrian negotiations with Israel and jibes more with American policies toward rogue states. Put the ball in the Syrian ...

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Hafiz al-Asad’s rise to power in November 1970 brought about a new era, as he softened his predecessors’ anti-Islamic tone. Although himself an ‘Alawi, Asad prayed in Sunni mosques, went on the pilgrimage to Mecca, and had the ‘Alawi religion declared a legitimate branch of Shi’i Islam. Hafiz al-Asad’s policy of doing nothing for a prolonged period, his passive nature, and the regime’s autocratic structure meant that Syria reached an impasse in the final decade of his rule. Asad must make his commitment clear in the Arab world and convince a majority of Arab states; Peres must convince a majority of Israeli voters. Going through this crucible of Arab and Israeli opinion would have the added benefit of making such an agreement more enduring than those struck only between two heads of state.

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An enormous bronze statue of Asad--ten times larger than life--looms over the city of Hama, serving as a palpable reminder of his brutal 1982 suppression of Islamic agitation there, which left some twenty-five thousand dead. His huge eyes piercing, his worry beads in hand, Asad peers down on the masses, smiling his crooked smile.