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Punishment for Syria, rewards for Syria’s neighbour Israel

Punishment for Syria, rewards for Syria’s neighbour Israel

 by Stuart Littlewood
US Secretary of State John Kerry accuses Syrian government forces of killing 1,429 people, including 426 children, in a chemical weapons attack in Damascus last week described as an “inconceivable horror” and “a crime against conscience”.
President Obama is considering lethal punitive strikes against the Assad regime, strikes that Britain, for one, will not take part in.

Greek Orthodox Archbishop Atallah Hanna: “We reject any aggression on Syria”

Greek Orthodox Archbishop Atallah Hanna: “We reject any aggression on Syria

 
Occupied Jerusalem, (SANA) – Large number of Greek Orthodox Palestinian Christians held a sit-in at the courtyard of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher to express sympathy with Syria which is exposed to threats and pressures targeting its stance and national role.

UN Official, Syrian Rebels Used Sarin Nerve Gas, Not Assad’s Army

UN Official, Syrian Rebels Used Sarin Nerve Gas, Not Assad’s Army
Carla del Ponte, a member of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria. 2013/REUTERS/Denis Balibo
 
by Paul Ebeling
Testimony from victims now strongly suggests it was the rebels, not the Syrian  government, that used Sarin Nerve Gas during a recent incident in the revolution-wracked nation, a senior UN diplomat said Monday.

US Attack on Syria Would Circumvent Constitution, Intl Law

US Attack on Syria Would Circumvent Constitution, Intl Law
US Secretary of State John Kerry inferred Monday that those who favor “common humanity” should now come to support U.S./NATO airstrikes on Syria. (Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP)
 
 War drums grow louder as familiar tactics used to garner support for military action that only 9 percent of Americans support
 
by Jon Queally