The Plank (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
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...
Jewish Internet Defense Force (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
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....)
France 24 (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
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.
Labourlist (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
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,...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
New York - Israel on Thursday sent a protest note to both the United Nations Security Council and Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that Iran had tried to send a ship loaded with weapons to Syria in violation of UN resolutions. The cargo vessel Francop w...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Man of Paper reports [ar] on his blog that Shabablek, a Syrian magazine, has suspended all work indefinitely in protest of the pervasive censorship from the side of the Syrian Ministry of Information.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Israel displays hundreds of tonnes of weapons it says were bound for Lebanese militia disguised as bulldozer parts Hezbollah and its Iranian and Syrian backers have flatly rejected Israeli claims that a shipment of arms and ammunition intercepted at sea was destined for the Lebanese militia group. As Israel moved quickly to exploit the propaganda value of the find to highlight the role of Iran, Hezbollah...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Syria said here Wednesday that with Israel's continued refusal to comply with United Nations resolutions, as well as recommendations from the report by UN fact-finding missions on Gaza conflict, puts the "credibility of the UN at stake." Syrian UN Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari, on the behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), made these remarks in a plenary General Assembly...
Wizblog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
At Contentions, Noah Pollak reporting on The New Karine A Israeli Navy commandos seized a cargo ship last night en route from Iran to Syria. It contained 10 times the arms that the Karine A attempted to deliver from Iran...
SyriaComment (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
DAMASCUS, Syria — The German newspaper Der Spiegel published a shocking piece of investigative journalism this week, providing a behind-the-scenes exposé of the run-up to Israel’s bombing of an alleged nuclear power plant in the Syrian desert in 2007. The article relates how the Mossad, in a daring tale of high-wire international espionage, hacked into a [...]
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
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.
Obsolete (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
At the weekend Ed Husain wrote an eminently reasonable, measured and very restrained in the circumstances attack on the more out there views of Melanie Phillips . Husain clearly feels that Phillips is a potential ally in the battle against radical Islam, although quite why judging by her record it's difficult to tell. His main concern now seems to be that rather than being an ally, she's becoming a...
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The praise by the allies of the Syrian regime in Lebanon in praise of Sa`d Hariri is nauseating.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Syrian bloggers frequently decry travel writing about their country - often it's too stereotypical, sometimes downright false. And for a country considered long "isolated" at least from the United States, it can be particularly frustrating to see such writing promoted as accurate. In this post, we will examine reactions to a recent National Geographic article on the country.
PhoneArea.net (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Here’s another example of great use of mobile technology for good. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a mobile food voucher pilot project to aid 1,000 Iraqi…
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