Israel Helped Force Assad to Back Away From Using Chemical Weapons
January 8, 2013 16:24 by Pesach BensonArab Spring Winter
• Fighting between gunmen for and against Assad resumed in the Yarmouk refugee camp, which is located in Damascus. It’s not clear what sparked the renewed fighting; AP reports five killed.
• Arab media reports Hezbollah sent 5,000 men to Syria to fight for Assad.
According to Al-Watan, a government daily, four “support battalions” comprising at least 1,300 soldiers each had succeeded in killing some 300 rebel soldiers in recent weeks as battles raged between government and opposition forces around the capital Damascus.
Rest O’ the Roundup
• BBC: Iran’s oil revenue has dropped 45 percent in the last nine months.
• Will editorials start fading out of newspapers in 2013? Maybe yes, maybe no. My two cents says they won’t; but the trend of op-eds increasingly addressing local issues will continue. Except for the big papers like the NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, and Wall St. Journal, don’t expect to see much about Israel and the Mideast in your local paper’s op-ed section.
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Ringo65
6:55 pm
Jan 08, 2013
Pathetic. An entire generation devoted to Death. What a stark contrast to the Jewish culture…of scholarly, family and cultural pursuits to better the human race. Nobel Prizes, making the desert bloom, solar power, education…and all these people want is for their children to die. This person is a poster child for Israel. Thank you.
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Les
7:11 pm
Jan 08, 2013
We should make the she beasts wish come true.
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Dany
7:44 pm
Jan 08, 2013
What a terrible waste, killing?
So why is the world so keen on setting another country that has on her constitution the destruction of another country? And why is there so much hesitation in calling the hizbolla a terror organization?
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Henry Federman
8:38 pm
Jan 08, 2013
The best argument for not backing Hegel for Defense Dept Head is that he was just endorsed by the government of Iran.
I don’t believe that that backing should help him very much. Iran believe that having him as Defense head and willing to talk to them would help diffuse their argument that they are only working on nuclear device is only for civilian usage.
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