The Middle East Situation

Prospects for achieving any progress on the Middle East peace front look exceedingly dim, in the wake of US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy's latest tour. No quarter could be more pleased about that than Syria, which fiercely opposes the Jordanian-PLO initiative. The Syrians have intervened to bring an end to nearly two weeks of unbridled violence in neighboring Lebanon, which they linked to the Murphy tour and alleged efforts by their regional...