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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....)
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 [...]
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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,...
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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...
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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 [...]