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First it was “Naqba Day”, which has been around for a long time, and which I look at as the “sour grapes” of a sore loser who had done to him exactly what he expected to do to the victor, because he ever expected to lose.
I’ll qualify...
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Syrian opposition: Anti-Israel rioters paid $1,000
Protestors at northern border promised $1,000 reward by...
made popular Jun 6 2011
The Ba’ath regime in Syria is one of the region’s most oppressive and everyone should be unequivocal in opposition to all Arab dictators. No sympathy should...
made popular Apr 25 2011
Bashas Assad, authoritarian ruler of Syria, could have been forgiven if found in a stupor while the rest of the Middle East was in the midst of a revolution....
made popular Mar 28 2011
The United States often likes to deride this or that nation as “rogue”. Going against the mainstream and refusing to adhere to internationally accepted...
made popular Jan 4 2011
Israel’s right-leaning Parliament approved legislation late Monday that could hamper the leadership’s ability to seal future peace deals with the Palestinians or...
made popular Nov 23 2010
JERUSALEM (AP) — With Mideast peacemaking at a standstill, Israel’s hard-line parliament called a vote Monday to push through a bill that could sink future...
made popular Nov 22 2010
According to Syrian officials , Syria is going to spend about 85 $ billions in the coming 5 years to develop its infrastructure and the agriculture sector which has...
made popular Oct 13 2010
The Noble prize for literature is announced tomorrow...
Syrian poet Adonis (real name Ali Ahmad Sa’id) is widely considered to be on the short list for...
made popular Oct 7 2010
American standards of evaluation.
The American government has only one method of evaluation human rights violations: is the government in question pro or...
made popular Oct 1 2010
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Saturday, two days after Assad held talks with a U.S. envoy about the...
made popular Sep 18 2010
As Muslims prepare to celebrate Eid ul-Fitr, the holiday marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, many restaurants across the Arab world boost their meat orders by...
made popular Sep 9 2010
In a new Syrian soap opera, a beautiful green-eyed young woman named Layla is torn over whether to take off the niqab, the billowing black Islamic garb that hides every...
made popular Sep 8 2010
Syria and the Lebanese-based Hezbollah Shiite group have signed a defense pact that includes broad-based “field understandings,” according to a report in...
made popular Sep 1 2010
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia have arrived in Lebanon on a joint visit.
It is the first visit to the country by Mr Assad since...
made popular Jul 30 2010
It’s not just European countries banning the full face veil, Syria has now jumped on the bandwagon to do away with women (both teachers and students) wearing the...
made popular Jul 23 2010
Syria has forbidden the country’s students and teachers from wearing the niqab — the full Islamic veil that reveals only a woman’s eyes — taking aim at...
made popular Jul 20 2010
The Obama administration has signaled in word and deed that a policy change is in the offing, a change that would accommodate the Syrian regime and normalize relations...
made popular Jun 29 2010
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denounced Israel as a “genocidal” government on Sunday as he hosted Syrian President Bashar Assad on his first visit to...
made popular Jun 28 2010
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President Obama’s chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is playing nice to Israel. When Emanuel was picked by Obama to be his chief of staff, Israelis were ecstatic....
made popular May 31 2010
Hezbollah is running weapons, including surface-to-surface missiles, from secret arms depots in Syria to its bases in Lebanon, according to security sources.
The Times...
made popular May 28 2010
Ten years ago, on May 24, 2000, the IDF completed its unilateral withdrawal from southern Lebanon. This year on May 24, the IDF, some might say, was busy paying the...
made popular May 25 2010
Syria is away from the siege it found itself in it during the last decade and especially after the invasion of Iraq. we can say that it is a victory for a brilliant...
made popular May 13 2010
The people of Lebanon like to think of themselves as so sophisticated and glamorous, and they ‘prove’ that by 1) making over 400,000 Palestinian refugees...
made popular May 10 2010
Ahmed Aboul Gheit. AFP
The Israeli president has recently accused - without evidence - the Syrian government of handing over Scud missiles to the Lebanese...
made popular Apr 27 2010
Israeli war on Lebanon in 2006.
Recently the Israeli government accused the Syrian regime of supplying the Lebanese party-cum-militia Hezbollah with Scud missiles....
made popular Apr 26 2010
Smoking in public has been banned in Syria, although few people are expected to abide by the measure.
The ban affects most public places, from restaurants and cafés...
made popular Apr 22 2010
A top US official has warned of serious repercussions for Syria if claims that it supplied the Lebanese Islamist group Hezbollah with Scud missiles are true.
Assistant...
made popular Apr 22 2010
The Israeli government is making the claim, without proof, that the state of Syria is handing over relatively high-quality missiles to the Lebanese party-cum-militia...
made popular Apr 16 2010
The Israeli government is making the claim, without proof, that the state of Syria is handing over relatively high-quality missiles to the Lebanese party-cum-militia...
made popular Apr 16 2010
My favorite blog is the Angry Arab News Service and, as often, the author recently made an astute and enlightened observation:
I also want to mention a waitress named...
made popular Apr 16 2010
I have recently started a new category of posts: The Middle East That You Do Not See. I explained the purpose last time for my first post in this regard:
My favorite...
made popular Apr 10 2010
Both Israel and Syria on Tuesday each announced ambitions to develop nuclear energy, with Israel facing the prospect that its plan could bring new attention to its...
made popular Mar 10 2010
Newly exposed by the UN… as usual, it’s a day late, a dollar short and clueless.
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A million hungry souls
Brutal transfer committed by Syrian regime finally...
made popular Mar 8 2010
In the 1967 Six-Day War, the state of Israel launched what it termed to be a preemptive strike against a forthcoming Egyptian-Syrian assault. This is the Zionist...
made popular Feb 17 2010
Another week in review in Occupied Palestine.
First, is a new Mid-East war on the horizon?
When high-profile American defense/intelligence officials start making...
made popular Feb 9 2010
President Barak Obama has announced assigning a new ambassador to Syria in five years. According to Agence France-Press (AFP), Obama said that this step will be geared...
made popular Feb 8 2010
After threatening Syria with war, Israel has toned down the rhetoric. First the background:
Syria’s president Bashir Assad in a meeting with Spanish foreign...
made popular Feb 6 2010
Syria’s president Bashir Assad in a meeting with Spanish foreign minister Miguel Angel Moratinos made the statement that Israel was ‘not serious’...
made popular Feb 5 2010
The Arab puppet is lead by his U.S. masters; Ereli at left.
The Bush administration withdrew the U.S. ambassador to the Syria back in 2005 as a measure of condemnation...
made popular Dec 26 2009
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Iraqi women shop for clothes at a store in al-Sayda Zeinab, an area in southern Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, April 22, 2009.
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