July 2012
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“Erm, what’s that scientific word again for people who rejoice in the...”
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The real Asef Shawkat
Ibrahim al-Amine reveals the resistance role of Asef Shawkat here:
There have been incessant attempts to demonize Shawkat, which can invariably be traced to the US, Israel and their clients in the region. But there was also a side to him that was hidden, for reasons related both to his position, and the nature of the tasks he undertook, far from the prying eyes of friends and foes alike.
Asef...
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UN head of mission in Syria, General Mood's...
Very interesting statement from head of UN mission in Syria, General Mood as he makes his departure from Syria. Last paragraph is just as applicable to rebels as it is to government:
“I extend my profound condolences and my heartfelt sympathies to the families of all the victims and to the wounded in Wednesday’s bombings. I expressed my condemnation of the attack yesterday to the...
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Excerpts from Nasrallah's speech yesterday-- Manar... →
The first goal was to crush the Resistance, Sayyed Nasrallah said, adding that the Israelis wanted Syria to be next.
“If the resistance was to be crushed, the war was aimed then at Syria on the pretext that Syria helped the resistance. The second goal was to overthrow the Assad regime and subject it to the American-Israeli scheme.”
“They sought after the July war to destroy the...
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“The gloves are off. The Syrian Information Minister says Qatar, Saudi Arabia,...”
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“Remember when they assassinated Hizbullah’s military commander and...”
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“Whoever thinks that the killing of the Syrian Defense Minister and Security...”
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Anonymous Syria hardly a credible source of email...
So much for the authenticity of Wikileaks’ Syria Files e-mails. They were provided to Wikileaks by none other than the clearly pro-opposition Anonymous Syria and I have written about their inherent bias on my blog here. Also, here is a tweet of theirs delighting in the Twitter account that impersonates me. That isn’t to dismiss all the emails outright, especially since many were...
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Syrian and Palestinian sources deny massacre in...
Syrian oppositionists have fabricated yet another massacre, this time in the Palestinian camp of Yarmouk. According to their fabricated claims, Syrian government forces had massacred Palestinians in a the Falouja School in the Yarmouk refugee camp. However, a widely followed Arabic language Yarmouk Camp News page on Facebook recently carried this announcement here , which denied the massacre had...
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Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood won't lift blockade on...
So much for Hamas’ excitement about the ascendance of the Muslim Brotherhood. While Syria, Hizbullah and Iran have supported the movement and fiercely criticized Mubarak’s Egypt for its stranglehold over Gaza in Israel’s onslaught in 2008/2009 —and let us not forget how Hizbullah operatives were detained by the Mubarak regime for smuggling weapons and supplies to Hamas via...
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Will Israel attack Syria?
A very important piece here by al-Akhbar’s editor-in-chief, Ibrahim al-Amine. Ibrhaim is always very well informed and is not prone to sensationalizing or exaggerating news. If Israel does indeed carry out its threats to invade or attack Syria, it will be interesting to see how colonized and treasonous the Syrian “revolutionaries” have become. Will they welcome their Zionist...
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Syrian oppositionists on Twitter ignore...
I have noticed a recent and very disturbing trend on twitter among supporters of the Syrian opposition whereby they ignore mainstream media (yes, their own media) accounts of events that contradict their own narrative. In so doing, they brazenly distort and falsify reality despite a media consensus on these events.
Last week alone, these tweeps claimed that the 17 Palestinians in Syria who were...
Disclaimer: Fake account in my name on Twitter
Disclaimer: Please note that I am not the Amal Saad-Ghorayeb on twitter under the handle @AmalTheResistor shown here.
This fake account uses my real name and is an impersonation of me in violation of Twitter’s policy on parody since my actual name is used. I have reported the incident to Twitter and hopefully the account will be shut and the name modified so as to avoid confusion.
On...
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Russian parliament adopts NGO 'foreign agents'...
Very interesting precedent that other countries should consider following. Story from the BBC here :
Russia’s lower house of parliament has adopted a controversial bill that labels foreign-funded non-governmental organisations as “foreign agents”.
The upper house and President Vladimir Putin are now expected to turn the bill into law.
Approval in the largely pro-Putin Duma (lower...
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“Five articles later, this is my conclusion in the debate with the Third Way: To...”
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Has Third Wayism become an intellectual safe haven...
I am starting to realize that Third-Wayism is a misnomer for many of those who identify themselves as such or who are considered as belonging to this camp. Some of them— and I don’t say all, but some— read like closet interventionists. In other cases, like Max Blumenthal’s (example #3), they sound like closet Israel legitimizers. In effect, Third Wayism is being used as an...
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Hamas slams killing of Palestinian troops in Syria... →
Zionist collaborationist FSA thugs massacre Palestinian fighters in Syria, as reported by Akhbar here. Ironic that Hamas is condemning the side it has [indirectly] aligned itself with:
The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas issued a strongly worded statement on Thursday condemning “the ugly killing of 17 PLA soldiers” by suspected rebels in Syria.
The head of the Palestine Liberation...
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Syria massacre dead mostly rebels, activists say →
Strangely, AFP and NOWLebanon carried this report today about the Treimseh massacre, which contradicts the mainstream narrative that AFP had published earlier in the day:
Most of the people killed in the Treimsa violence in central Syria were rebel fighters, an activist said on Friday, adding the bloodbath followed a Free Syrian Army attack on an army convoy.
“At this stage, though we do...
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The Syrian opposition: who's doing the talking? →
Hands down the most diligently researched and comprehensive article on the Syrian opposition in the Guardian. Brilliant stuff: ‘This is the story of the Syrian war, but there is another story to be told. A tale less bloody, but nevertheless important. This is a story about the storytellers: the spokespeople, the “experts on Syria”, the “democracy activists”. The...
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Pro-opposition Anonymous are source of Syria...
So now material provided by a group which has openly aligned itself with one party to the Syrian conflict, and which initially offered the material to the main sponsor of that party (al-Jazeera) supposedly constitutes ”evidence”. I am sure if al-Manar tv for example, hacked mails belonging to the Syrian opposition and this would be viewed as the unadulterated truth and counted as...
