7 May 2019 — Indian Punchline
It is going to be 30 years in another six months since the USS Abraham Lincoln, named in honour of the 16th US President, was commissioned on Nov.11, 1989 as the 5th Nimitz-class aircraft carrier of the American Navy. Now, as it leaves Croatia and heads toward the Persian Gulf, the carrier would have mixed emotions.
7 December 2018 — Voltaire Net
For the third consecutive day, the Israeli defence forces are continuing operation “Northern Shield”. The project is under the command of the Head of the North Region, General Yoël Strick, and is being supervised by the Head of the General Staff, General Gadi Eizenkot.
3 November 2013 — Global Research
In a report titled “Hezbollah shows strain of Syria war”, The Guardian’s Middle East Editor Ian Black, explains to the reader that Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah “sounds more troubled than defiant when he talks about the Syrian war these days”.
9 September 2013 — Voltaire Network
Both the United States and France are busy with preparations for the bombing of Syria, although such action corresponds to no strategic objective for either state. Russia and the Axis of Resistance are therefore preparing their riposte. The major difficulty consists in transforming this agression into a regional war while avoiding the Third, (and final?) World War. Whatever happens, if they engage in war, the Western world will have to deal with a long and wide-ranging conflict like nothing they’ve experienced since Vietnam.
6 September 2013 — Information Clearing House
Russia “Will Help Syria” In The Event of a Military Strike, Putin
By RT
Putin: Syria chemical attack is ‘rebels’ provocation in hope of intervention’
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36136.htm
4 September 2013 — — Strategic Culture Foundation
For the first time through the two-year old Syrian conflict, the United States has mentioned the holy cow – «boots on the ground». The Secretary of State John Kerry has pleaded that the US Congress should approve the use of American ground troops although the Obama administration may not intend to take recourse to such action.
2 September 2013 — Al-Akhbar
Commentators in the West will surely declare that it was their democratic systems of government that forced US President Barack Obama to back down on attacking Syria. But the events that led up to Washington’s de-escalation suggest there were other factors at play.
16 August 2013 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Stormy Round Of Talks Held Amidst Escalating Israeli Violations
IMEMC – Palestinian officials involved in the direct talks with Tel Aviv have reported that the latest round of direct Palestinian-Israeli talks, held late on Wednesday at night, was very stormy due to Israel’s decision to build hundreds of units in illegal West Bank settlements. …
29 July 2013 — Information Clearing House
The Boycott of Israel Eight Years In
By Lawrence Davidson
In the private and public sectors of Western society, greater numbers of people no longer follow the line of historical interpretation set down by the Zionists.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35685.htm
26 July 2013 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
British Human Rights Activist Wins Water-meter Fight
IMEMC – A British Palestine supporter won a battle this week to stop Southern Water company installing an Israeli-made water meter at her home. …
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10 July 2013 — Counterpunch
DAHIYEH, Beirut – This observer’s neighbors seemed to believe, especially over the past year, as most of us did, that the war in Syria would, in one form or another, spill into our neighborhood, Dahiyeh, the Hezbollah stronghold in south Beirut near the Shatila and Burj el Barajeh Palestinian refugee camps.
28 June, 2013 — Global Research
This weeks conflagration near Sidon, a majority Sunni city in the South of Lebanon has been on the cards for some time. Sheikh Al Assir, the instigator of the street battle’s with the Lebanese Armed Forces, (LAF) has been on a concerted campaign to incite sectarian strife and division between the Sunni and Shi’a sects in Lebanon, with one major goal; to draw Hezbollah into a sectarian-based conflict.
