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The Full Story on Why Obama Backed Down on Syria By: Ibrahim al-Amin
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. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 16 August 2013: Israel’s rabbinate reflects country’s racist streak
16 August 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterStormy Round Of Talks Held Amidst Escalating Israeli ViolationsIMEMC – 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 Continue reading
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ICH 29 July 2013: In Defense of Hezbollah, a “Terrorist” Organization
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 Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 26 July 2013: Israel launches ’price tag’ attack par excellence in response to EU settlement directive
26 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterBritish Human Rights Activist Wins Water-meter FightIMEMC – A British Palestine supporter won a battle this week to stop Southern Water company installing an Israeli-made water meter at her home. … Continue reading
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Syrian war hits Beirut By Franklin Lamb
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. And now it has… Continue reading
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Escalation of Syria War: Ahmed Al-Assir, America’s Pawn in Lebanon By Phil Greaves
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… Continue reading
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Escalation of Syria War: Ahmed Al-Assir, America’s Pawn in Lebanon By Phil Greaves
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… Continue reading
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Lebanon is Being Prepared for Sedition as a Front in the Syrian War Mahdi Darius NAZEMROAYA
The flames of division and fighting in Syria are being fanned into Lebanon. The US and its allies could be working with their Lebanese partners and proxies to ignite and internal conflict. The small Arab republic is politically divided and is in a governmental state of limbo. There is also a growing vacuum within the… Continue reading
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Syria, The View From The Other Side By Stephen Gowans
What follows is the largely hidden story from the other side, based on two interviews with Assad, the first conducted by Clarin newspaper and Telam news agency on May 19, 2013, and the second carried out on June 17, 2013 by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Both were translated into English by the Syrian Arab News Agency. Continue reading
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US-backed “rebels” carry out sectarian massacre in Syria By Bill Van Auken
At least 60 people, including women, children and the elderly, were killed in a massacre of Shia Muslims by US-backed “rebels” in eastern Syria Tuesday. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 10 June 2013
10 June 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterChild Kidnapped In JerusalemIMEMC – On Monday at dawn [June 10 2013] Israeli police officers kidnapped one child in the Al-Esawiyya town, in occupied East Jerusalem. One resident was also kidnapped in Beit Hanina. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 8 June 2013: Israel Is Losing Its Battle in Syria
8 June 2013 — VTJP News Ma’an News Israeli forces destroy Palestinian protest village6/8/2013 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces destroyed the Palestinian protest village of Canaan on Saturday for the third time, a local committee said. Yousef Abu Maria, spokesman for Beit Ummar’s committee against the wall, told Ma’an that Palestinian and international activists rebuilt Continue reading
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Syria: the Opposition Is in Retreat By Petr Lvov
With financial assistance from Qatar and Saudi Arabia drying up and the flow of weapons from Turkey and Lebanon slowing, what had to happen now has: The rebels have begun retreating in panic under the Syrian Army’s onslaught. This is occurring against the backdrop of bad things happening for the rebels: Continue reading
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Syria’s Fake Sectarian War, Triggered by Washington By Shamus Cooke
The fate of Syria and the broader Middle East balances on a razor’s edge. The western media is giving dire warnings of an impending sectarian war between Sunni and Shia Muslims, a war that could drown the Middle East in a flood of blood. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 5 June 2013: After 46 years of occupation, land confiscation renders Israeli law obsolete
5 June 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterShabak Head: “Abbas Does Not Believe Peace In Possible”IMEMC – Speaking to the Israeli Knesset Foreign and Security Committee on Tuesday, head of the Israeli Security Agency (Shabak), Yuram Cohen, stated that Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, does not really believe that reaching a peace agreement with Continue reading
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Syrian army sets sights beyond Qusair
The Syrian army will confront rebels across the country after making a decisive victory in the key town of Qusair early Wednesday, further tipping the military balance in the regime’s favor in the country’s civil war, it said in a statement Wednesday. Continue reading
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Syrian opposition launch rocket attacks in Lebanon By Thomas Gaist
Fighting raged in Lebanon on Sunday between Hezbollah militants and US-backed Syrian rebels, with at least 12 killed. According to a Lebanese security official, the clashes broke out as Syrian opposition elements prepared to launch rocket attacks against the city of Baalbek, in north-east Lebanon. These clashes near Baalbek come as another indication that the… Continue reading
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ICH 3 June 2013: 1 in 6 Going Hungry in U.S: New Report
3 June 2013 — Information Clearing House Who Benefits If The Killing In Syria Goes On? By Patrick Cockburn This is a cynical but probably correct explanation for why the US, Britain, France and the Sunni monarchies do not want the war to end. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35163.htm Continue reading
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