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  • January 24, 2014

    Syria: genocide by international consensus

    Part 1: A green light to Assad Ever since the Syrian regime gassed its own citizens in the Damascus suburbs in a chemical attack on August 21, the issue...

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  • January 24, 2014

    The Oslo swamp after two decades

    The ill-fated Oslo Accords, signed 20 years ago, have only made Israel more arrogant and open about its disregard of the Palestinians’ national rights. Illegal settlements and their infrastructure...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Syria: genocide by international consensus

    Part 2: The destruction of a people On Monday, the residents of Kafr Zeita, a town in north central Syria, were retrieving the corpses of their loved ones from...

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  • January 24, 2014

    No Chemicals my Lad, we said No Chemicals!!

    The Revolution Leadership Council in Damascus (RLCD) For a long time, I thought commentary about the international community’s ‘inaction’ and ‘impotence’ and the rest of it has become clichés...

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  • January 24, 2014

    From dismantling chemical weapons to dismantling Syria

    After 30 months of violence, Syria appears to have collapsed and is almost lifeless. More than two-thirds of the population are in danger and much of the infrastructure has...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Should the Islamists be punished for being the most organised?

    In 2006, the US, Israel, Arab countries and the Palestinian Authority (PA), dominated by the secular Fatah movement, decided to end the Palestinian resistance against the Israeli occupation. They...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Israel denies Christian Peacemaker Teams entry to Palestine

    Jonathan Brenneman packed for his second attempt at crossing the Jordan-West Bank border with a jacket, fully charged iPod, letters of official invitation and 500-page collection of Flannery O’Connor...

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  • January 24, 2014

    The Syrian opposition coalition is dying and America has sold the Arabs to Iran

    The phone call between President Barack Obama and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani ended more than 30 years of no official communication between leaders of the two states. It...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Medical professionals in Syria demand neutrality for hospitals, ambulances and patients

    More than 50 doctors and health professionals have demanded that the Syrian government and all armed groups in the country respect the neutrality of hospitals, ambulances and patients, and...

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  • January 24, 2014

    The fight to defend Al-Aqsa

    Thirteen years ago former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s visit to the compound of the third holiest site in Islam, Al-Aqsa Mosque, sparked the Second Intifada. The intifada, which raged...

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