Syria

Syria Claims the UN is "Pro-Israel"?

Jewish Internet Defense Force (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Elder of Ziyon points out: On the very same day that the UN General Assembly (for the umpteenth time) voted overwhelmingly against Israel, a Syrian minister and columnist for Asharq Al Awsat writes that the UN is just another Zionist tool: The shy and shameful language of the UN’s call [for Israel not to evict Palestinian Arabs in jerusalem]... (Click the title to read more....)

• Syrian minister says UN is pro-Israel - Elder of Ziyon

Uncovering Syria's Secret Nuclear Site

The Plank (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

In case you haven't gotten your issue of Der Spiegel this month, the German mag has some very cool details on the intelligence work that led to the discovery--and eventual destruction by Israeli airstrike--of a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor being built with North Korean help: In the spring of 2004, the American National Security Agency (NSA) detected a suspiciously high number of telephone calls...

Turkey ready to further Syria-Israel dialogue

France 24 (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Turkey is ready to oversee a new stage of secret peace talks between Israel and Syria, resuming a role it had played until last year, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said here Friday. Historically Israel's only friend in the Middle East, Ankara has in recent years served as a conduit for diplomatic exchanges between the Jewish state and its arch foe Damascus about improving relations.

Israel seizes weapons it said were being sent by Iran to Syria

The Intelligence Daily (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Israel's Navy seized a ship off the coast of Cyprus with 500 tons of weapons that it alleges were sent by Iran to Syria, and ultimately destined for Hezbollah militants in Lebanon.Israel said on Wednesday that its Navy had intercepted a ship, some 100 miles offshore in the Mediterranean, carrying Iranian containers concealing more than 500 tons of weapons.

Canna 'Bengal Tiger'

Canna News (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago

A medium sized Italian Group cultivar; variegated green and yellow foliage, oval shaped, maroon margin, spreading habit; oval stems, coloured green; panicles of flowers are open, orange and red-orange, staminodes are large, edges ruffled, petals purple with farina, fully self-cleaning, average bloomer; seed is sterile, pollen is low fertile; rhizomes are long and thin, coloured white; tillering is...

Hamas Calls For Reconciliation With Fatah, Meets With Council on the National Interest

New English Review/The Iconoclast (Free subscription) | yesterday

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday to stop seeking compromise with Israel but offered him an olive branch, saying Palestinians must en...

Dictatorships and double standards revisited

Power Line (Free subscription) | yesterday

Stephen Hayes invokes Jeane Kirkpatrick's classic 1979 essay in his his Weekly Standard article of the same title on the Obama administration's foreign policy. Hayes updates the the continuing saga of the Obama administration's appeasement of the Islamic Republic of Iran. By contrast with its valentines for the mullahs, as Hayes reports, the administration last week had harsh words...for Fiji. Hayes...

• ATTRIBUTED TO IDF OFFICIALS5 November 2009The various... - Britannia Radio

Assad should worry more about his own people

Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | yesterday

My friend Reuben Brand, an Australian journalist currently based in Damascus, has written an interesting piece about homelessness in Syria: We asked Hussein if he went to school, he said that he didn’t want to because if he completed his school diploma he would be sent into military service. I couldn’t believe that at such a [...]

CBS & NBC Fail to ID Hasan as Muslim - It Figures

Government Mess (Free subscription) | yesterday

Neither the CBS Evening News nor NBC Nightly News, in their East coast feeds Thursday night, noted the Muslim religious beliefs of the mass killer at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas, but ABC anchor Charles Gibson wasn't cowed by political correctness as he teased World News, “Fort Hood tragedy: An Army officer, a Muslim convert, is the suspect in a shooting spree...” Introducing his first...

• CBS & NBC Fail to ID Hasan as Muslim; ABC's Raddatz Relays: 'I Wish His Name was Smith' - NewsBusters

Stop seeking compromise with Israel: Hamas leader - Reuters

Google News - Top Stories (Free subscription) | yesterday

Telegraph.co.uk Stop seeking compromise with Israel: Hamas leader Reuters DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday to stop seeking compromise with Israel but offered him an olive branch, saying Palestinians must end their divisions. ... Abbas' move reflects deep Palestinian despair The Associated Press Israeli concern over Abbas move BBC...

Dazzling days on the road to Damascus

Daily Express (Free subscription) | yesterday

THE souk in Aleppo is about as far removed from the British shopping experience as the breathtaking ruins of Palmyra are from the average housing estate.

Stop seeking compromise with Israel: Hamas leader

Reuters (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday to stop seeking compromise with Israel but offered him an olive branch, saying Palestinians must end their divisions.

The trail of human suffering goes on - how many more illegal acts will it take?

Labourlist (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

By Jeremy Corbyn MP At one of the border points between Syria and Iraq, reached after a four hour drive across the stony desert from Damascus, the road is barred to all vehicles and travellers by a checkpoint. Those allowed through drive on. This is the road to Baghdad, where armies have marched, peace-makers have travelled and refugees have fled. Beside it, where the huge lorries lumber up to speed,...

U.S.-Syria Relations: Syrian Dictator Bashar al-Assad Complains that America isn’t Giving Him Enough Concessions in Exchange for Nothing

Jesus Lives! (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

From Gloria-Centre.Org U.S.-Syria Relations: Syrian Dictator Bashar al-Assad Complains that America isn’t Giving Him Enough Concessions in Exchange for Nothing If you find these articles useful and interesting, please read and subscribe to Barry Rubin’s blog, Rubin Reports, at <http://www.rubinreports.blogspot.com>: As I’ve previously reported, policy toward Syria has been the...

Shooter Dr. Nidal Malik Hasan, MD Apparently A Syrian Immigrant

VDARE.com: Blog Articles (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

A doctor rating site says that Dr. Hasan, a Major in the US Army, got his basic medical training at Faculty of Medicine, Damascus University or Faculty of Human Medicine, Damascus University Completed: 1990 One of the assessments says: Reviewer: Pvt J. Hammond Although he was hard to understand (strong accent) this doctor helped me come to terms with [...]

• According to this website, Dr. Malik Nid… - Talk Islam