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Israel is Fighting a Regional War in Syria By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
The entry of Israeli troops and the Mossad security service into Syria with repeated Israeli air strikes via illegal use of Lebanese airspace on the Syrian military research facility in the town of Jamraya clarifies Israel’s role in destabilizing Syria. Israel has also admitted that “intense intelligence activity” is being maintained in Syria by Israeli… Continue reading
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Interview Given by President al-Assad to Lebanese Al-Manar TV
DAMASCUS, (SANA)-President Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to al-Manar TV broadcasted on Thursday Continue reading
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Israel Threatens Russia By Stephen Lendman
Israel gives chutzpah new meaning. War on humanity defines its agenda. It’s partnered with Washington’s war on Syria. It’s heading perhaps toward greater intervention. It warned Russia about supplying Syria with sophisticated defensive anti-aircraft missiles. It said Israel will react in response. Continue reading
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ICH 29 May 2013: Time for Russia to Make a Stand
29 May 2013 — Information Clearing House Syrian Rebel Alliance Openly Threatens Ethnic Cleansing By Alex Newman The rebel FSA spokesperson said in a TV interview that minority communities would be “wiped off the map” if the regime’s forces managed to capture the city of Al-Qusair. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35128.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 29 May 2013
29 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterExtremist Settlers Burnt Olive Trees, Farmlands, Near QalqiliaIMEMC – A group of extremist Israeli settlers burnt, on Wednesday evening, several Palestinian olive trees and farmlands planted with wheat, in an area located between the villages of Far’ata and Jeet, east of the northern West Bank of… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 28 May 2013: ACT! Stop mass eviction of Bedouins in Israel
28 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterChild Forced Under House Arrest In JerusalemIMEMC – Tuesday May 28 2013, the Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem, reported that the Israeli Police released an 11-year-old child, identified as Saif Roweidi, after kidnapping and interrogating him for several hours. … Continue reading
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ICH 28 May 2013: How Obama and Al-Qaeda Became Syrian Bedfellows
28 May 2013 — Information Clearing House How Obama and Al-Qaeda Became Syrian Bedfellows By Shamus Cooke It’s now clear that Obama’s foreign policy in Syria is actively encouraging terrorism. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35115.htm Continue reading
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“The machiavelian threefold game of the neoconservatives” by Laurent Guyénot
To realize their fantasies of world domination, the neocons resorted to a triple discourse, as Laurent Guyénot shows in this study, i.e. a cynical political philosophy developed by their mentor Leo Strauss for domestic consumption; a cold analysis of Israeli strategic interests for the benefit of leaders in Tel Aviv, and a fear-mongering warning against… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 27 May 2013: Domestic fissures in Israel will not benefit Palestinians
27 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterIsraeli Settlements Occupy 538.303 Dunams In West BankIMEMC – Israeli daily, Haaretz, has reported that, in 2012, Israel confiscated 8000 Dunams of Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank for the benefit of its settlements in areas referred to by Tel Aviv as “State Lands”. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 26 May 2013: Kerry against the wall
26 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterIsraeli troops decimate Bedouin village in Negev, leaving 24 children homelessIMEMC – The village of Atir-Umm al-Hieran is considered an ‘unrecognized’ village by the Israeli government, and has experienced home demolitions in the past, in 2007. But this week, residents say, 600 Israeli officers came and “destroyed… Continue reading
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ICH 27 May 2013: The Evil of "Humanitarian Interventionism"
23 May 2013 — Information Clearing House US Makes Syria an ‘Offer it Can’t Refuse’ – again By Finian Cunningham This is the scenario that Washington and its NATO allies are contriving for the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad… http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35093.htm Continue reading
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Hezbollah chief promises ‘victory’ in Syria conflict
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Saturday vowed “victory” in Syria, where militants of his powerful Lebanese Shiite movement are fighting alongside regular troops against rebels trying to topple the regime. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 24 May 2013: “This time they destroyed everything”: Uprooted Bedouins face more evictions
24 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterDetainee Continues Hunger Strike, Demands ReleaseIMEMC – Palestinian detainee, Ayman Issa Hamdan, who went on hunger strike 27 days ago, rejected an Israeli “offer” for an additional six-month extension of his Administrative Detention, without trial, and demanded his unconditional release. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 23 May 2013: Muhammad al-Dura and Israel’s obsession with the propaganda war
22 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterAMNESTY: “Israel, Palestinian Fighters, Committed War Crimes”IMEMC – AMNESTY International issued a report on the Israeli war on Gaza, in November of 2012, and statedthat its investigations conducted that both Israel and the Palestinian resistance in Gaza, violated international humanitarian law, and committed war crimes. … Continue reading
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Hezbollah and the War in Syria: Why is the UK Pressuring the EU to Designate Hezbollah a “Terrorist” Group? By Phil Greaves
A distinct increase of negative coverage has been forming in Western and Gulf press; this focus is specifically regarding Hezbollah’s direct involvement in the battle currently raging to take control of the Syrian town of Qusair; its overall role in Lebanon and the region, and its ties to both Syria’s President Assad, and the government… Continue reading
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Senior BBC official insists that all of Jerusalem is an “Israeli” city By Amena Saleem
The BBC has provided evidence this week that it prefers to use the territorial claims of the Israeli government to the whole of Jerusalem as a framework for its reporting, rather than acknowledging international law. Continue reading
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Senior BBC official insists that all of Jerusalem is an “Israeli” city By Amena Saleem
The BBC has provided evidence this week that it prefers to use the territorial claims of the Israeli government to the whole of Jerusalem as a framework for its reporting, rather than acknowledging international law. Continue reading
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Israel is fighting a regional war in Syria By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Not only have the US and its allies been trying to militarily buttress the retreating anti-government militias, but now they aim to create a new phase in the conflict where states start asserting leverage against Syria in place of the weakening anti-government forces. In other words, external pressure is being applied to replace the declining… Continue reading
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The Syrian Pendulum By Dmitry MININ
In recent days on the battlefield, the scales have clearly been tipping in favor of the government forces. Western strategists are faced with a choice: either admit that the attempt to establish a puppet regime in Syria has failed, or set aside all their «soft power» gimmicks and switch to an open and expensive military… Continue reading
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On the Road to Damascus: An Eyewitness Report By Antonio C. S. Rosa
I participated, May 1-11, 2013 in the Mussalaha International Peace Delegation to Lebanon-Syria alongside fellow TRANSCEND member Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, from Ireland, and 15 others from eight countries. Keenly aware of my responsibility, especially to my newly made Syrian and Lebanese friends left behind, I shall try to report, describe, make sense of… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 