Syria
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 2 July 2012: Israel Continues To Pound Gaza, Injure Civilians
2 July 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Planning A Military College In Mount OliveIMEMC – The Israeli Regional Planning and Construction Committee in Jerusalem approved, Monday, a plan to build a Military College near the Augusta Victoria Hospital in Mount Olive, in occupied East Jerusalem. … Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 2 July 2012: Son Of Liberty: Born and raised in America
2 July 2012 — Information Clearing House An Act Of War? Iran Sanctions Will Halve Oil Sales But May Still Not Succeed By Julian Borger and Saeed Kamali Dehghan Embargo has led to huge increases in price of staple foods, while currency has lost half its value since 2010. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31741.htm Continue reading
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RT: Washington's road to Iran goes through Syria By Veronika Krasheninnikova
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insists that the principle of “mutual consent” on which a “transitional government”in Syria would be based, means President Assad has to go. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, on the contrary, insists the formation of a “transitional government” will be made on inclusive basis. Continue reading
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Scenarios for Syria: War and Stabilization By Nile Bowie
Diplomatic attempts to solve the Syrian crisis have been rejected by both members of the Syrian government and the opposition. As Ankara laments bold rhetoric and militarizes its border with Syria, this article attempts to foresee three possible outcomes to the ongoing crisis. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 1 July 2012: Time to abandon never-ending futile talks with Israel
1 July 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center P.A. Security Forces Assault & Detain Protestors, JournalistsIMEMC – For consecutive days protests by Palestinians in Ramallah have been broken up with violence by Palestinian Authority security forces. … Continue reading
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GR Week in Review 29 June 2012: Mafia-Style Banking, Africa’s Spy Infestation and NATO Proxies in Syria
29 June 2012 — Global Research SYRIA: NATO’s Next “Humanitarian” War? ONLINE INTERACTIVE I-BOOK – by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky – 2012-07-15 ONLINE INTERACTIVE I-BOOK. The insurgency in Syria is based on the “Libya Model”: it is integrated by mercenaries and Al Qaeda affiliated paramilitary brigades supported by British, French and Turkish Special Forces… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 30 June 2012: Simulating an Iranian attack on Israel – why?
30 June 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Bethlehem church designated as Endangered World Heritage siteIMEMC – The United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organization voted Friday to designate the Bethlehem Nativity church and pilgrimage route as a World Heritage site, which will provide the Palestinian Authority with funding to maintain and restore… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 29 June 2012: Israel, US blast UN vote on Palestinian heritage sites
29 June 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 22 Elected Legislators Still Imprisoned By IsraelIMEMC – Head of the Census Department at the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, Abdul-Nasser Farawna, reported that the current number of elected Palestinian legislators imprisoned by Israel dropped to 22 after Israel released, on Thursday afternoon, two legislators, the… Continue reading
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NATO Proxies Turkey and Saudi Arabia Move to War Footing on Eve of Syrian ‘Peace Summit’ By Finian Cunningham
The NATO-backed covert aggression against Syria could be reaching a tipping point for all-out war involving state forces. That should be no surprise. For the past 16 months, NATO and its regional proxies have been steadily increasing the violence and turmoil inside and outside Syria, while the Western corporate-controlled media maintain the ridiculous fiction that… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 28 June 2012: The American People Are Angry?
28 June 2012 — Information Clearing House Obama Stalling His Way To War With IranBy Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann LeverettObama is locking America into a path that is increasingly likely to result in yet another U.S.-initiated war in the Middle East during the first years of the next presidential term. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31714.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 28 June 2012: Israel treats every Palestinian child as “potential terrorist”: government-backed UK study
28 June 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Army Asks For Extensive Deployment On Egyptian BorderIMEMC – Israeli paper, Maariv, reported Thursday that senior leaders of the Israeli army are demanding the government to grant the army $15 billion over the coming five years, in order to deploy the military in full… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 28 June 2012
28 June 2012 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange ordered to present himself to police Telegraph.co.uk WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been served with a letter saying he has to present himself to a London police station tomorrow, according to sources. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/9361410/WikiLeaks-founder-Julian-Assange-ordered-to-present-himself-to-police.html Continue reading
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The US-NATO Military Crusade against Syria and Iran: Selected Articles Edited By Michel Chossudovsky
American-led imperialism has evolved from bloody bouts of episodic militarism over several decades to the present day state of permanent belligerence, with wars or war-making stretching from North and East Africa into the Middle East and Central Asia and beyond to Eurasia, the Far East and the Arctic. Of most immediate concern are the ongoing… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 27 June 2012: Israel Plans Demolition of Entire Palestinian Village
27 June 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli government fails to carry out terms of prisoner agreementIMEMC – Palestinian and international rights groups have condemned the Israeli government’s failure to live up to the agreement made one month ago in order to end the month-long hunger strike of over 2,000 Palestinian prisoners.… Continue reading
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NATO War Council To Target Syria By Rick Rozoff
On Tuesday, June 26 Belgium time the North Atlantic Council, the highest governing body of the U.S.-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization military bloc, will take up the issue of Syria under provisions of its founding document that in the past ten and a half years have resulted in military deployments preparatory to and the subsequent… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 26 June 2012: G4S in Israel: The Soldiers of Global Occupation
26 June 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Begins The Evacuation Of Ulpana SettlementIMEMC – On Tuesday Israeli officials started removing the illegal Ulpana settlement outpost, built on privately-owned Palestinian lands, close to the Beit El settlement near the central West Bank city of Ramallah. Israel vowed to build hundreds of new… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 26 June 2012: History of the US-Israel Relationship
26 June 2012 — Information Clearing House Syria and Turkey’s Phantom War By Pepe Escobar Imagine if this was a Syrian jet flying over Turkish or Israeli territory. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31713.htm Continue reading
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War At Any Cost: Another Manufactured Pretext for War with Syria By Eric Draitser
The downing of a Turkish jet by the Syrian military last week was not merely a military incident making the possibility of an intervention and regional war much more likely. This episode was the most recent in a long and storied history of “international incidents” or provocations used by imperial powers as pretexts for military… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 25 June 2012: Israel demolishes Bedouin village for 39th time
25 June 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Demolishes Sheds, Confiscates Water Tanks, In Wadi Al-MalehIMEMC – Israeli soldiers demolished, on Monday afternoon, several sheds used by Bedouins in Wadi Al-Maleh area, in the northern plains of the West Bank, and confiscated several water tanks used by the residents, in an attempt… Continue reading
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