Soccer Dad's Middle East Media Sampler

Here's Soccer Dad's Middle East Media Sampler for Thursday, April 18.

1) Syria and contiguity

Jacques Neria writes in Stalemate in the Syrian Civil War:


While
Assad has survived so far, he has not been able to quell the rebellion,
the economy is in shambles, and so are most of the areas hit by the
civil war. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians are either refugees in camps
in Jordan,