By: Michael O’Brien New York. 2016 Last September, if you happened by City Hall Park, you might have noticed a two thousand year old imperial Roman ruin. Or at least what looked a lot like a Roman Ruin. The 25-foot-tall stone arch was a replica, created using 3D printing technology. The original was destroyed by…
Category: Terrorism
The concept of the Safe Zone in South Syria and its options
Wrote by: Issam Khoury 09/15/2016 The Syrian opposition have not succeeded during the past five years in establishing a safe zone, despite intense statements from both the Turkish side and the Syrian opposition to do so. The international community has repeatedly ignored pleas, and preferred to support the Syrian Kurdish parties in the fight against…
حقيقة الارهاب
بقلم: عصام خوري 17/11/2015 الجهاديين الراديكاليين المتطرفين يعرفون ماذا يفعلون، اهدافهم واضحة وخطابهم مباشر وعدوهم علني. انهم باختصار لا يناورون على عكس الكثير من الدول الكبرى التائه بين محاربة الارهاب ومعايير حقوق الانسان التي تنتهكها الاجراءات الامنية. فتنظيم الدولة الاسلامية المستهدف من التحالف الدولي وروسيا حدد بنك اهداف له كانت بدايته في تركيا وصولا للطائرة…
Reality of Terrorism
By: Issam Khoury The radical extremist jihadists who attacked Paris and Beirut last week know exactly what they are doing. Not only are their goals clear, they have been blatant in describing their strategy and their enemies. They never waver, unlike many of the major countries they are targeting and who are mired in…
THE AMPUTATED DIALOGUE
By: Issam Khoury Politics is not an ideal state, a lot of war criminals today have become political leaders, as is the case in Lebanon, but this only occurred after decades of reconciliations, which were supervised by international and regional powers. Unfortunately, history is repeating itself today on the Syrian territory, in an…
الحوار المبتور
بقلم: عصام خوري السياسة ليست حالة مثالية، فالكثير من مجرمي الحروب اصبحوا اليوم زعماء سياسيين كما هو الحال في لبنان، ولك ن هذا الامر لم يتم الا بعد عقود من المصالحات التي اشرفت عليها قوى دولية واقليمية. للأسف التاريخ يعيد نفسه اليوم على الارض السورية، في ظن دولي ان ما يحدث على الارض السورية هو…
The Initiative Syria homeland for all
Dear Colleagues, Friends Media Agencies and Diplomatic Missions I would like to give you all the appreciation for your work on the Syrian file The Center for Environmental and Social Development launched an initiative to end the military conflict. The co-formulation of this initiative includes 420 Syrian political and human rights activists. We hope that…
The radical, jihadi thought and the obstacles of social development in MENA region
By: Issam Khoury 07/07/2010 The Islamic-Arabs scene suffers of peerless social and political emptiness; although the young men, more than any other sect in society in the neighboring countries, interest in political affairs, they suffer a state of social and political marginalization that prevents them from having a real participation in forming their own decisions,…
قوة «النصرة» و«داعش» الحقيقية
بقلم: عصام خوري //جريدة الجمهورية// 21/12/2013 تُرجّح تقارير مختلفة، أنّ تنظيمي «الدولة الإسلامية في العراق والشام»(داعش) و«جبهة النصرة» هما أقوى التنظيمات المقاتلة للمعارضة إنضباطاً وقوة تنفيذية على الأرض، ولكن عندما نتمعّن بأعدادهم، نُصاب بالذهول، إذ أنّ عدد مقاتلي تنظيم «داعش» يُقدّر بنحو 11 ألف مقاتل، في حين أنّ عدد مقاتلي «النصرة» لا يتجاوز 5 آلاف.
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