Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a publicity stunt Trumpian in its iniquity and emptiness, the government of Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu put up a sign in the Occupied Syrian Golan Heights, saying “Trump Heights.” There isn’t really any settlement there yet, just a sign, just as there isn’t any reality to Trump more […]
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Syria
Russia is Calling Trump’s Bluff on Iran and Syria, and Winning Big
By trying to isolate Russia and Iran, the US is only isolating itself. (Moscow) – President Donald Trump won’t go to war with Iran. That was the prediction of Russian experts I interviewed in Moscow during the height of the US-Iran crisis in May. They were right. To date, Trump has threatened military action against […]
War Crimes: Syria’s Assad has Systematically Targeted Hospitals as a Battle Tactic
By Zaki Kaf Al-Ghazal | – Although many reports touch on the political and humanitarian situation in Syria, little has been said about the medical situation in the war-torn country, and the plight of its doctors who remain there. The conflict has raged for eight years with no end in sight. The uprising against Bashar […]
Russia/Syria: Flurry of Prohibited Weapons Attacks
( Human Rights Watch ) – (Beirut) – The Russian–Syrian joint military operation has used internationally banned and other indiscriminate weapons in unlawful attacks on civilians in northwest Syria in recent weeks, Human Rights Watch said today. According to the United Nations, the area is home to 3 million civilians, at least half of whom […]
Leaked Document Revives Controversy over Syria Chemical Attacks
(Al-Bab.com – A leaked document which contradicts key findings of an official investigation into chemical weapons in Syria has surfaced on the internet. Described as an “engineering assessment” and marked “draft for internal review”, it appears to have been written by an employee of the Organisation for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) – the international […]
Arab World Warms to Russia after Trump gives Syria’s Golan to Israel
“We appreciate the Russian position on the Jerusalem and Golan files. This position is consistent and based on the need to abide by international law, norms and standards.”
How Trump Just Gave Alabama to Iraq by Giving Syrian Golan to Israel
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Trump administration’s illegal and unilateral recognition of Israeli annexation of the Syrian Golan Heights is an unfortunate return to the international jungle of the 1930s and 1940s, when Hitler annexed the Sudetenland and Mussolini annexed Nice from France. Trump’s policy is Nazi law, as so many of his policies […]
After 8 Years of Civil War, Syrians Finally United … against Trump re: Golan
In Aleppo, hundreds gathered in the central Saadallah al-Jabiri square: “We are here to condemn Trump’s Golan decision”
Water, Oil and Netanyahu: Why Trump gave Syria’s Golan away to Israel
some analysts have suggested that the timing of this announcement was calculated to bolster Netanyahu’s campaign
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